Costa Rica: Social globalization

Pour cet indicateur, The Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich fournit des données pour la Costa Rica de 1970 à 2023. La valeur moyenne pour Costa Rica pendant cette période était de 58.86 points avec un minimum de 44.73 points en 1982 et un maximum de 78.04 points en 2017. Global rankings for that indicator are available here. You can compare trends over time here.

Définition: Social globalization has three dimensions: personal contacts, information flows, and cultural proximity. The sub-index on personal contacts includes international telecom traffic, degree of tourism, transfers, foreign population, and number of international letters. The sub-index on information flows includes number of internet users, share of households with a television set, and trade in newspapers. The sub-index on cultural proximity includes trade in books and number of McDonald’s restaurants and Ikea located in a country.