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Costa Rica
Costa Rica has been a member of the ILO from 1920 to 1927 and from 1944 to date. The country has ratified 52 Conventions and one Protocol, including eight of the ten fundamental Conventions and the four governance Conventions, as well as 40 technical Conventions.
The Republic of Costa Rica has an area of 51,100 km² and a population of 5,212,200 inhabitants (CEPALSTAT, 2023). Divided into seven provinces (San José, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Guanacaste, Puntarenas, Limón), the country’s capital is San José.
In order to fulfill the mandate of promoting decent work and fostering social justice, the ILO provides technical assistance to its tripartite partners in the country - government, employers’ and workers’ organizations - through a team of experts and by the implementation of technical cooperation projects that address the priority challenges identified in the different areas of the labour field.
ILO actions in Costa Rica are coordinated from the Office for Central America, Haiti, Panama, and the Dominican Republic.
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Press release
ILO unveils key data on web-based platform work in Latin America and the Caribbean
Statistics advance cooperative innovation and impact
Labour statistics
National figures on labour market for the last available year from the ILOSTAT database
Development Cooperation Dashboard
The dashboard offers information on budgets and expenditures of core and non-core voluntary contributions over the last ten years.
Tripartite partners
Publications
Latin America and the Caribbean
Survey on workers on web-based digital platforms
Executive summary
Women's participation in temporary labour migration programmes
Projects and programmes
Responsible Business Conduct Project in Latin America and the Caribbean (RBCLAC - Phase II)
SAW Project
Setting adequate wages
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