Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Honduras instead of Costa Rica, you would:

Health

be 16.7% less likely to be obese

In Costa Rica, 25.7% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Honduras, that number is 21.4% of people as of 2016.

live 4.5 years less

In Costa Rica, the average life expectancy is 80 years (77 years for men, 82 years for women) as of 2022. In Honduras, that number is 75 years (72 years for men, 79 years for women) as of 2022.

Economy

be 27.0% less likely to be unemployed

In Costa Rica, 8.3% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Honduras, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

make 74.8% less money

Costa Rica has a GDP per capita of $25,800 as of 2023, while in Honduras, the GDP per capita is $6,500 as of 2023.

be 88.2% more likely to live below the poverty line

In Costa Rica, 25.5% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Honduras, however, that number is 48.0% as of 2019.

pay a 66.7% higher top tax rate

Costa Rica has a top tax rate of 15.0% as of 2016. In Honduras, the top tax rate is 25.0% as of 2016.

Life

have 84.3% more children

In Costa Rica, there are approximately 10.8 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Honduras, there are 19.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

be 3.3 times more likely to die during childbirth

In Costa Rica, approximately 22.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Honduras, 72.0 women do as of 2020.

be 79.7% more likely to die during infancy

In Costa Rica, approximately 8.4 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Honduras, on the other hand, 15.1 children do as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 42.2% less likely to have internet access

In Costa Rica, approximately 83.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Honduras, about 48.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 13.9% more on healthcare

Costa Rica spends 7.9% of its total GDP on healthcare as of 2020. In Honduras, that number is 9.0% of GDP as of 2020.

Geography

see 36.2% less coastline

Costa Rica has a total of 1,290 km of coastline. In Honduras, that number is 823 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Dirección Ejecutiva de Ingresos, The World Factbook, Directorate General of Taxation of Costa Rica.

Honduras: At a glance

Honduras is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 111,890 sq km. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage. Since then, the economy has slowly rebounded.
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