The Cost Of Living in Costa Rica. How does it compare?

Numbeo, the world’s largest database of user contributed data about living conditions in cities and countries worldwide, released mid year 2014 rankings.

The most expensive cities in the world, in mid 2014 are Zurich (CPI index 159.51), Stavanger (156.71) and Geneva (150.43). Indian cities Thiruvananthapuram (22.25), Coimbatore (24.57) and Indore (25.90) are the least expensive cities in the world.

San José, Costa Rica is far from expensive on a global level but it is listed as having the highest cost of living in Central America.

About: Numbeo is a crowdsourced website with open methodology which gathered more than 1.3 million data entries about living conditions worldwide since 2009. Numbeo is founded in 2009 by Mladen Adamovic, ex-Google software engineer. Mladen also worked for Sungard, Troxo and University of Banja Luka. He obtained M.Sc. Electrical Engineering from University of Banja Luka in 2006 and B.Sc. Math from University of Belgrade in 2003.

Andrew Makarik

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Andrew Makarik is the main editor of WeLoveCostaRica, a fan of this sunny country. He is also a loving husband and a has a lovely daughter. By being a devoted family man and the biggest Costa Rica fan, he wants to make more people feel at home there. WeLoveCostaRica unites people and helps them find new home or a new travel destination. This website is a friendly community where everyone can find not only information, but also new friends and travel pals. Andrew is also passionate about IT and programming, so he himself maintains a friendly atmosphere in this cozy environment of WeLoveCostaRica.com.