Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail was 104,505 million SLC in 2015. ▲ Rising
Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Costa Rica, 2005–2015
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in million SLC.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 104,505 million SLC for food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in 2015. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 0.9% on the previous year and up 32.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Costa Rica peaked at 104,505 million SLC in 2015 and was at its lowest, 78,633 million SLC, in 2005.
That places Costa Rica 9th out of 61 countries with data for 2015, putting it in the top quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | million SLC | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 78,633 million SLC | — |
| 2006 | 83,300 million SLC | +5.9% |
| 2007 | 85,310 million SLC | +2.4% |
| 2008 | 90,971 million SLC | +6.6% |
| 2009 | 88,775 million SLC | -2.4% |
| 2010 | 90,529 million SLC | +2.0% |
| 2011 | 89,749 million SLC | -0.9% |
| 2012 | 88,806 million SLC | -1.1% |
| 2013 | 99,128 million SLC | +11.6% |
| 2014 | 103,532 million SLC | +4.4% |
| 2015 | 104,505 million SLC | +0.9% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 104,505 million SLC is above the median for high income countries, which is 1,707 million SLC, 61.2× the median. (36 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 104,505 million SLC is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 32,874 million SLC, 3.2× the median. (8 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 85,398 million SLC | 78,633 million SLC | 90,971 million SLC | 5 |
| 2010s | 96,042 million SLC | 88,806 million SLC | 104,505 million SLC | 6 |
Countries ranked near Costa Rica
More agriculture & rural data for Costa Rica
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 4.56 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.0337 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 672.15 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate -1.57 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.2027 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 3.4% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 3.4% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 1.1% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.0% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Costa Rica?
- Food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail in Costa Rica was 104,505 million SLC in 2015, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 104,505 million SLC in 2015.
- What is the lowest food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 78,633 million SLC in 2005.
- How does Costa Rica rank for food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail?
- Costa Rica ranks 9th out of 61 countries with data for 2015.
- Is food and accommodation away from home (faafh) — wholesale and retail rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is up 32.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH) — Wholesale and retail trade — Primary Factors Total — Value SLC, 2015 prices. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
This domain contains data on three food value measures, namely: (1) Food At Home (FAH); (2) Food and Tobacco at Home (FTAH); (3) Food and Accommodation Away From Home (FAAFH), disaggregated by four primary factors (Operating Surplus, Labor, Taxes, Imports) and by five food value chain industries (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing; Manufacture of food, beverages and tobacco products; Transportation and storage; Wholesale and retail trade; Accommodation and food service activities). The three food value measures differ for the bundle of goods and services they account for. In particular, the FAH refers to domestic expenditures of personal consumption for food consumed at home, at purchaser prices. The FTAH measure is similar in its target, but it refers to a broader set of economic goods, inclusive of tobacco, as food and tobacco expenditures are not always separable in the original data. On the other side, the FAAFH refers to domestic expenditures of personal consumption for food consumed away from home (e.g. in restaurants), at purchaser prices, and it also includes expenditures for accommodation in all the cases where the two types of expenditures were not separable in the original data. The values of industry decomposition measure the food production value-added distribution across different industries and factors involved in the agri-food value chain. All these estimates are based on Leontief Input Ouput modeling and Industry reduction method. The Food Value Chain domain aims to supply informaiton relevant for the SDG 12 - sustainable consumption and production patterns, SDG 2 - zero hunger and SDG 1 - no poverty, that constitue guiding SDGs in the FAO Strategic Framework 2022-2031 and its better production pillar. More in general they may inform national, regional and global food policy, including measures in the World Food Summit framework. Data are collected from national Supply and Use Tables (SUTs) and Industry by Industry Input Output tables (IOTs), via OECD database or NSOs. All input data are in line with the System of National Accounts (SNA) and main international classifications and standards related to environmental-economic accounting (respectively the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting for Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, SEEA AFF, and the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities, ISIC).