This document compares several countries across various economic, human development, environmental, and happiness metrics. It shows that Costa Rica has a GDP per capita of $11,400 and GDP growth rate of 3.5%, with an unemployment rate of 4.2%. Costa Rica also scores highly on human development metrics like literacy, school life expectancy, and low death rate. It has high access to safe drinking water and moderate CO2 emissions and ecological footprint. Costa Rica also has a relatively high life expectancy, life satisfaction, and Happy Planet Index, making it an appealing choice overall.
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footprint
a measurement of how much land, water
and natural resources a person, city, country
or humanity as a whole requires to produce
the resource it consumes.
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