Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Costa Rica's Economy

The money in Costa Rica is called the Colon, Colones for plural. Costa Rica's main exports are coffee and bananas.  Other exports are pineapples, melons, ornamental plants, and oil from African palm nuts.   Electronic components are, medical equipment, and pharmaceutical became important exports.  Some of the names of the export companies are John&Johnson, Colgate-Palmolive, and Monsanto.  

Tourism is how Costa Rica makes most of its money.  Because there is a lot of tourist.  So then people pay extra for tour guides.  in 1989 there was about 400,000. Know there is about 2,000,000 million tourist per year.
Tourist in a jungle 

Most people in Costa Rica are middle class however, 25% are very poor.  The average yearly salary is $6,000. The GDP is $55 billion.  


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