Food in Costa Rica - OBJECTIVE LISTS

Country Food Similarity Index
2020 (Version 3)

Similarity compared to Costa Rica

Rank	Country	Unweighted Data	Food Group Based	Average
1	Panama	79.1	80.2	79.7
2	Ecuador	77.2	78.1	77.7
3	Bahamas	76.6	76.7	76.7
4	Brazil	75.8	76.4	76.1
5	Belize	74.5	75.1	74.8
6	Colombia	73.5	75.3	74.4
7	Taiwan	73.3	74.3	73.8
8	Malaysia	72.6	73.5	73.0
9	Venezuela	72.6	73.5	73.0
10	Barbados	72.7	72.9	72.8
11	El Salvador	71.0	74.1	72.6
12	Qatar	70.9	73.8	72.3
13	Mexico	71.7	73.0	72.3
14	Japan	71.5	72.8	72.1
15	Suriname	71.5	72.5	72.0
16	South Africa	72.0	72.0	72.0
17	Mauritius	71.4	72.5	72.0
18	Trinidad & Tobago	71.6	72.2	71.9
19	Cape Verde	70.9	72.9	71.9
20	Nicaragua	71.6	72.1	71.8
21	United States	70.8	71.9	71.3
22	Seychelles	71.0	71.5	71.2
23	Thailand	70.9	70.9	70.9
24	Guatemala	70.5	71.4	70.9
25	Peru	70.3	71.5	70.9
26	South Korea	70.3	71.4	70.9
27	Argentina	70.5	70.9	70.7
28	Uruguay	70.5	70.6	70.5
29	Dominican Republic	67.7	72.7	70.2
30	Bahrain	69.8	70.1	70.0
31	Israel	68.9	70.8	69.9
32	Honduras	68.9	70.5	69.7
33	Grenada	69.1	70.3	69.7
34	Australia	68.9	69.5	69.2
35	Canada	68.3	69.8	69.1
36	New Caledonia	68.5	69.7	69.1
37	Chile	68.5	69.6	69.1
38	United Kingdom	68.4	69.6	69.0
39	Cuba	68.4	69.4	68.9
40	Portugal	68.3	69.0	68.6
41	Malta	67.7	68.7	68.2
42	New Zealand	68.1	68.2	68.2
43	Antigua & Barbuda	67.4	67.9	67.7
44	Saudi Arabia	67.2	68.1	67.7
45	United Arab Emirates	67.0	67.9	67.4
46	Bolivia	67.0	67.7	67.3
47	Maldives	67.4	66.9	67.2
48	France	67.0	67.1	67.1
49	Kuwait	65.2	68.2	66.7
50	Ireland	66.4	66.8	66.6
51	Luxembourg	66.2	67.0	66.6
52	Haiti	65.9	67.0	66.5
53	St. Lucia	65.7	66.7	66.2
54	Jamaica	65.7	66.6	66.2
55	Philippines	65.6	66.6	66.1
56	Oman	66.0	66.2	66.1
57	Russia	65.1	66.6	65.8
58	Bosnia	63.7	67.8	65.8
59	Yemen	64.6	66.7	65.6
60	Spain	65.2	65.7	65.5
61	Namibia	65.0	65.6	65.3
62	Cyprus	65.1	65.6	65.3
63	Indonesia	65.2	65.4	65.3
64	Georgia	64.1	66.2	65.1
65	India	63.9	66.3	65.1
66	French Polynesia	65.1	65.1	65.1
67	Netherlands	64.4	65.7	65.0
68	Ukraine	63.1	66.3	64.7
69	Sweden	64.7	64.7	64.7
70	Egypt	63.4	65.6	64.5
71	Switzerland	63.7	65.2	64.5
72	Slovenia	63.9	65.0	64.4
73	Croatia	64.1	64.4	64.3
74	Italy	63.7	64.8	64.2
75	Eswatini	63.9	64.6	64.2
76	Guyana	62.2	66.3	64.2
77	Vietnam	64.0	64.2	64.1
78	Djibouti	63.6	64.3	64.0
79	Moldova	62.3	65.3	63.8
80	Iran	61.3	66.1	63.7
81	Norway	63.0	63.8	63.4
82	Denmark	63.3	63.3	63.3
83	Finland	62.9	63.6	63.2
84	Austria	63.0	63.4	63.2
85	Jordan	61.8	64.4	63.1
86	Bulgaria	62.8	63.3	63.0
87	Romania	62.0	63.7	62.9
88	Germany	62.6	63.1	62.8
89	St. Vincent	62.3	63.1	62.7
90	Iceland	62.5	62.7	62.6
91	Lebanon	60.2	65.0	62.6
92	Bhutan	61.5	63.4	62.4
93	Lithuania	62.0	62.7	62.4
94	Montenegro	61.9	62.8	62.3
95	Serbia	61.3	63.2	62.3
96	East Timor	61.5	62.8	62.2
97	Paraguay	62.0	62.3	62.2
98	Estonia	61.9	62.3	62.1
99	Fiji	61.9	62.0	61.9
100	North Macedonia	59.4	64.2	61.8
101	Turkey	58.9	64.8	61.8
102	Armenia	59.9	63.5	61.7
103	Czechia	61.4	62.0	61.7
104	Botswana	61.7	61.4	61.6
105	Sri Lanka	59.6	63.4	61.5
106	Madagascar	59.3	63.7	61.5
107	Iraq	59.8	63.2	61.5
108	Morocco	60.2	62.8	61.5
109	Mauritania	62.1	60.8	61.5
110	China	60.2	62.2	61.2
111	Slovakia	61.0	61.3	61.1
112	Greece	60.2	61.9	61.1
113	Latvia	60.6	61.4	61.0
114	North Korea	58.9	61.8	60.3
115	Nepal	59.6	60.8	60.2
116	Sao Tome	59.8	60.4	60.1
117	Belgium	59.8	60.2	60.0
118	Mozambique	59.2	60.4	59.8
119	Belarus	58.9	59.8	59.3
120	Senegal	58.8	59.6	59.2
121	Kenya	58.1	59.9	59.0
122	Samoa	58.7	59.3	59.0
123	Libya	57.3	60.1	58.7
124	Pakistan	58.3	58.9	58.6
125	Lesotho	57.9	59.1	58.5
126	Poland	57.8	58.5	58.2
127	Hungary	57.9	58.3	58.1
128	Algeria	54.6	61.0	57.8
129	Gambia	58.2	57.3	57.8
130	Rep. of Congo	57.6	57.7	57.7
131	Bangladesh	57.0	58.4	57.7
132	Myanmar	57.1	57.2	57.2
133	Gabon	57.5	56.3	56.9
134	Albania	53.9	59.8	56.8
135	Syria	54.5	58.6	56.5
136	Tanzania	56.5	56.5	56.5
137	Kazakhstan	55.0	57.6	56.3
138	Comoros	55.4	55.5	55.5
139	Angola	55.2	55.6	55.4
140	Guinea-Bissau	54.6	56.1	55.4
141	Azerbaijan	53.4	57.2	55.3
142	Tunisia	52.5	56.5	54.5
143	Laos	54.2	54.7	54.5
144	Kiribati	53.2	54.8	54.0
145	Vanuatu	53.8	54.2	54.0
146	Kyrgyzstan	52.7	54.3	53.5
147	Afghanistan	52.4	54.5	53.4
148	Cambodia	52.3	54.4	53.3
149	Uzbekistan	51.7	54.2	53.0
150	Zimbabwe	52.6	52.7	52.6
151	Liberia	51.3	53.6	52.4
152	Ivory Coast	51.8	51.7	51.7
153	Tajikistan	50.3	51.8	51.1
154	Turkmenistan	50.1	51.6	50.8
155	Zambia	49.1	51.3	50.2
156	Guinea	50.3	50.1	50.2
157	Malawi	48.5	51.6	50.0
158	Benin	49.4	50.4	49.9
159	Ghana	48.1	50.4	49.3
160	Burkina Faso	48.4	49.9	49.1
161	Mali	47.4	50.6	49.0
162	Cameroon	47.2	50.9	49.0
163	Togo	46.4	50.9	48.6
164	Nigeria	46.3	50.9	48.6
165	Uganda	47.5	48.8	48.2
166	Mongolia	47.5	47.9	47.7
167	Ethiopia	47.2	47.7	47.4
168	Rwanda	44.8	49.5	47.2
169	Sudan	46.4	47.7	47.1
170	Sierra Leone	45.9	47.8	46.8
171	Dem. Rep. of Congo	44.9	48.5	46.7
172	Micronesia	45.9	45.8	45.8
173	Papua New Guinea	45.6	45.5	45.5
174	Solomon Islands	45.6	45.3	45.4
175	Burundi	41.4	45.1	43.3
176	Central African Rep.	39.7	40.3	40.0
177	Niger	37.8	41.5	39.7
178	South Sudan	35.7	36.2	35.9
179	Chad	35.0	34.0	34.5