Lucky Nomads Passport Index
Costa Rican passport
The Costa Rican passport scores 53.12 out of 100 and ranks 55 of 200 on the Lucky Nomads Passport Index, our livability-weighted measure of where a passport lets you live, work and settle.
LN Passport score
53.12 / 100
Global rank
#55of 2006
Pure mobility
74.58
Mobility rank #61, shown for reference at 0% weight
+6
Lives better than visa-free counts suggest
Score breakdown
Access weighted by livability
60.23
Access weighted by how livable each reachable destination is, with livability counted squared and longer stays counting for more.
Residence rights
0
The freedom to live and work somewhere permanently, with diminishing returns as the free-movement list grows.
Tax friendliness
86.1
How the home country taxes its citizens, including worldwide taxation of citizens abroad.
Optionality and freedom
78.75
Governance, rule of law and openness of the home country.
Free-movement destinations: 0. Visa-free or no-prior-visa destinations: 148.
Where this passport can go
Visa-free (120)
- Albania
- Andorra
- Anguilla
- Argentina
- Aruba
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Bonaire
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Brazil
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Colombia
- Cook Islands
- Croatia
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- French Polynesia
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Germany
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Kiribati
- Kosovo
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Malaysia
- Malta
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Moldova
- Monaco
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Netherlands
- New Caledonia
- Nicaragua
- Niue
- North Macedonia
- Norway
- Palestinian Territories
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines
- Pitcairn Islands
- Poland
- Portugal
- Qatar
- Romania
- Russia
- Saba
- Saint Barthelemy
- Saint Helena
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Saint-Martin (French part)
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Serbia
- Singapore
- Sint Eustatius
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Spain
- Svalbard
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Tajikistan
- Thailand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vatican City
- Venezuela
- Wallis and Futuna
- Zambia
Visa on arrival (15)
- Bangladesh
- Burundi
- Cape Verde
- Comoros
- Egypt
- Guinea-Bissau
- Lebanon
- Macao
- Maldives
- Marshall Islands
- Mauritius
- Palau
- Senegal
- Timor-Leste
- Tuvalu
Electronic travel authorization (13)
- Alderney
- Guernsey
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Jersey
- Kenya
- Pakistan
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sark
- Seychelles
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- United Kingdom
eVisa (54)
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Armenia
- Australia
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Burkina Faso
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Chad
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Guinea
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mauritania
- Mongolia
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Sudan
- Suriname
- Syria
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe
Visa required (30)
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Belarus
- Canada
- Central African Republic
- China
- Eritrea
- Eswatini
- Falkland Islands
- Fiji
- Ghana
- Kuwait
- Mali
- Morocco
- Nauru
- New Zealand
- Niger
- Oman
- Puerto Rico
- Republic of the Congo
- Saudi Arabia
- Sudan
- Taiwan
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Turkmenistan
- United States
- US Virgin Islands
- Yemen
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