Costa Rica's electricity generation rose from 6.9 in 2000 to 12.8 in 2025.
Costa Rica's primary energy consumption rose from 21.4 in 1994 to 46.0 in 2023.
Costa Rica · Energy
Generation, consumption, mix, dependence and intensity.
26 indicators · 26 with data
Costa Rica's electricity consumption per capita rose from 1,742.1 kWh in 2000 to 2,486 kWh in 2025.
Costa Rica's solar electricity generation rose from 0 in 2000 to 0.1 in 2025.
Costa Rica's wind electricity generation rose from 0.2 in 2000 to 1.6 in 2025.
Costa Rica's hydropower electricity generation rose from 5.6 in 2000 to 9.6 in 2025.
Costa Rica's nuclear electricity generation was 0 in 2000 and 0 in 2025.
Costa Rica's energy use per capita rose from 6,205.5 kWh in 1994 to 9,004.6 kWh in 2023.
Costa Rica's renewable energy fell from 35.1 % in 1992 to 34.2 % in 2021.
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- Renewable electricityup +0.1 pts1st of 90
- Fossil fuel electricity sharedown −0.1 pts1st of 90
- Low-carbon electricity shareup +0.1 pts1st of 90
- Hydropower electricity shareup +2.1 pts8th of 89
- Nuclear electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts31st of 81
- Solar electricity sharedown −0.1 pts77th of 90
- Wind electricity shareup +0.8 pts24th of 88
- Coal electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts1st of 89
- Gas electricity shareunchanged +0.0 pts78th of 87
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- Energy importsup +7.3 pts22nd of 64
- Net electricity imports (% of demand)down −4.9 pts72nd of 90
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- Energy intensity of GDPdown −1.5 %25th of 165
- Carbon intensity of electricitydown −4.9 %2nd of 90
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- Access to electricity (% of population)down −0.2 pts126th of 215
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- Oil productionunchanged +0.0100th of 204*
- Gas productionunchanged +0.096th of 204*
- Coal productionunchanged +0.066th of 204*