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Costa Rica

A nation of 5.2 million with forest across six tenths of its land and almost all its power renewable, where the IMF approved a Flexible Credit Line in 2025 and the World Bank finances education and recovery.

Perfect Nations values what Costa Rica owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

Costa Rica at a glance

Work with usRead the Letter to Costa Rica

What we do for Costa Rica

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Clean Grid to The Fresh Water.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels4 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Shelter is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry Costa Rica toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 99.4%Of electricity from renewable sources, 2021

    The Clean Grid

    Power from water, wind and sun already flows; every new connection can be clean.

  • 59.1%Of the land under forest, 2024

    The Forest

    Standing forest that stores carbon and water, and can earn as it stands.

  • 7.4%Of export earnings from visitors, 2020

    The Visitors

    Visitors already pay for the coast and the culture; their spending can finance what lasts.

  • 5.2mCitizens, 2025

    The People

    18.3% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation.

  • 22,236 m³Renewable fresh water a person, 2022

    The Fresh Water

    Rain and rivers renewed every year: power, irrigation and drinking water.

Every figure, with its sourceThe Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Green power, and water to treat.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what Costa Rica owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

Capital already committed

  • MultilateralApprovedFlexible Credit Line

    IMF · Two-year arrangement, 2025

    A precautionary line the nation can draw on if shocks hit.

    IMF

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedResults in Education (CORE)$200M

    World Bank · Approved 6 December 2024

    Financing paid against results in schools.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedSocial Risk Management DPL with a Cat DDO$200M

    World Bank · Approved 25 November 2024

    Budget support with funds that release when disaster strikes.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedClimate Resilient Recovery and Territorial Development$350M

    World Bank · Approved 8 March 2024

    Rebuilding roads, bridges and services to withstand storms.

    World Bank

    Source

The Costa Rica Newswire

The Solutions Wire
Daniela Mora, Nation Steward of Costa Rica

Daniela MoraNation Steward of Costa Rica · SI Researcher

Already working in Costa Rica.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in Costa Rica, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

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  • The first firms and social enterprises at work in Costa Rica are being gathered.

    Name one already at work there: it may be highlighted here, with its source.

03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect Costa Rica, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Costa Rica in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works
Costa Rica: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for Costa Rica.WATER80.5%SHELTER26.3%ENERGY97%FOOD84.6%EDUCATION61.4HEALTH84LIVELIHOOD82.9%
26.3%
Shelter · furthest from reachSafely managed sanitation; 3.6% of city dwellers live in slumsWHO/UNICEF, 2024

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect Costa Rica

To be set with Costa Rica, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of Costa Rica, each year.

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  • Food84.6%Not food insecure; 15.4% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2023
  • Water80.5%Safely managed drinking waterWHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Shelter26.3%Safely managed sanitation; 3.6% of city dwellers live in slumsWHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Energy97%97% cook with clean fuels and technology; 99.8% have electricityWorld Bank, 2024
  • Education61.461.4% of young people complete lower secondary schoolWorld Bank, 2024
  • Health84WHO service coverage indexWHO, 2023
  • Livelihood82.9%Above the national poverty line; 17.1% live below itWorld Bank, 2025

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Costa Rica. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect Costa Rica

All Solutions

  • The Solution for Costa RicaShelter

    Ring-fence bond money for homes and sanitation.

    • 01The challenge73.7% Of Costa Ricans lack safely managed sanitation. WHO/UNICEF, 2024
    • 02The dealSocial bond, proved in Ecuador, 2020: $400M for affordable homes. Inter-American Development Bank, 2020
    • 03What Perfect Nations advisesNations where shelter is furthest from reach should issue a social bond whose proceeds can be spent only on eligible homes, toilets and sewers. With super intelligence, each unit can be planned, priced and verified, and reported to investors every year, until every family has a safe home.
    Co-design it inThe ReDesign StudioThe three mandates
Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsCosta Rica

Dear Costa Rica,

Your forests cover six tenths of your land and almost all your electricity is renewable.

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Power reaches every home. Yet by the strict international measure, 73.7% of you lack safely managed sanitation, and one in five lacks safely managed drinking water. A nation that protects its rivers and forests can treat the water it returns to them.

“Protect the rivers by treating the water returned to them.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect Costa Rica ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for Costa Rica, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of Costa Rica, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments

  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Shelter, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing

  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab

  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Costa Ricans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect Costa Rica into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect Costa Rica, published with your name.

    Submit your writing

  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect Costa Rica.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does Costa Rica already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

    Nominate yourselfSuggest a guest

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Costa Rica.

    Become a Co-designer

The Costa Rica ReDesign Studio is open

Design Perfect Costa Rica with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply.

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access and clean cooking.
  2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023.
  3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026): general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
  4. IMF article of 23 September 2025 and IMF country page (credit outstanding at 31 March 2026).
  5. World Bank projects P181174, P181372 and P178049; World Bank press releases of 13 August and 30 September 2025.
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