Costa Rica Population Pyramid 1980

Costa Rica
1980
Population: 2,390,633

Year

-5 -1   1980  +1 +5

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Costa Rica in 1980

As of 1980, Costa Rica counted 2,390,634 inhabitants. A decade earlier, in 1970, the population was 1,838,949; it has grown by 30.0% since. With a median age of 20.3 years, Costa Rica had a youth dependency ratio of 63.9 and an old-age dependency ratio of 6.6 per 100 people of working age. This is an expansive pyramid — each cohort of children is larger than the one above it, the signature of high birth rates and rapid growth.

Share of the population by age group, 1950–2100

Data source: United Nations World Population Prospects, 2024 revision (medium variant) — last updated July 2024.


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