According to the World Development Indicators, the fraction of the Costa Rican population living
under the extreme poverty line ($1.25 per person per day) fell from 9.2 percent in the early 1990s to 2.2 percent in the mid-2000s. The fall regarding the alternative poverty line ($2 per person per day) fell from 18.8 percent to 6.4 percent. Proportionally, no Latin country achieved a larger fall in the former, and only Chile in the latter.