Standard Deviation in Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Standard Deviation was 0.257 °C in 2025. ▼ Falling
Standard Deviation in Costa Rica, 1961–2025
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in °C.
Analysis
Costa Rica recorded 0.257 °C for standard deviation in 2025. That is the lowest value across all 65 years on record.
That represents a change of unchanged over ten years.
Over the whole period, standard deviation in Costa Rica peaked at 0.4 °C in 1968 and was at its lowest, 0.257 °C, in 1961.
That places Costa Rica 195th out of 251 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 65 years of available data.
Standard Deviation in Costa Rica, year by year
| Year | °C | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 0.257 °C | — |
| 1962 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1963 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1964 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1965 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1966 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1967 | 0.385 °C | +49.8% |
| 1968 | 0.4 °C | +3.9% |
| 1969 | 0.257 °C | -35.8% |
| 1970 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1971 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1972 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1973 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1974 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1976 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1977 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1978 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1979 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1980 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1981 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1982 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1983 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1984 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1985 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1986 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1987 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1988 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1989 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1990 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1991 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1992 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1993 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1994 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1995 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1996 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1997 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1998 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 1999 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2000 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2001 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2002 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2003 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2004 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2005 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2006 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2007 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2008 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2010 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2011 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2012 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2013 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2014 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2015 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2020 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2021 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2022 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2023 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2024 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
| 2025 | 0.257 °C | +0.0% |
Costa Rica compared with similar countries
- Costa Rica's 0.257 °C is below the median for high income countries, which is 0.4285 °C, 60% of the median. (70 countries reporting)
- Costa Rica's 0.257 °C is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 0.2705 °C, 95% of the median. (36 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.2871 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.4 °C | 9 |
| 1970s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 10 |
| 1980s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 10 |
| 2000s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 10 |
| 2010s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 10 |
| 2020s | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 0.257 °C | 6 |
Countries ranked near Costa Rica
- 192 Guadeloupe 0.259 °C compare
- 193 Dominica 0.258 °C compare
- 193 Seychelles 0.258 °C compare
- 195 Bhutan 0.257 °C compare
- 195 Martinique 0.257 °C compare
- 195 Saint Lucia 0.257 °C compare
More environment data for Costa Rica
- Grazing land use over the long-term, annual growth rate 0.0008 % change on previous year (2025)
- Grazing land use over the long-term, per unit of GDP 0 hectares per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Grazing land use over the long-term, per capita 0.2419 hectares per person (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 2.9 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 2.71 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Temperature change 1.61 °C (2025)
- Grazing land use over the long-term, per square kilometre 24.65 hectares per square kilometre (2024)
- Sawnwood, coniferous — Production, annual growth rate -100 % change on previous year (1998)
- Wood-based panels — Production, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is standard deviation in Costa Rica?
- Standard deviation in Costa Rica was 0.257 °C in 2025, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest standard deviation recorded in Costa Rica?
- The highest recorded value was 0.4 °C in 1968.
- What is the lowest standard deviation recorded in Costa Rica?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.257 °C in 1961.
- How does Costa Rica rank for standard deviation?
- Costa Rica ranks 195th out of 251 countries with data for 2025.
- Is standard deviation rising or falling in Costa Rica?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Costa Rica data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Standard Deviation. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Temperature change on land domain disseminates statistics of mean surface temperature change by country, with annual updates. Statistics are available for monthly, seasonal and annual mean temperature anomalies, i.e., temperature change with respect to a baseline climatology, corresponding to the period 1951–1980. The standard deviation of the temperature change of the baseline methodology is also available. Data are based on the publicly available GISTEMP data, the Global Surface Temperature Change data distributed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Institute for Space Studies (NASA-GISS).