# Costa Rica

- **Record type**: Jurisdiction profile
- **Short name**: Costa Rica
- **ISO code**: CR
- **Type**: country
- **Region**: Americas / Central America

## In brief

Costa Rica has 1 recorded AI policy instrument, none of them binding. National AI strategy 2024–2027 adopted; AI bill under consideration in the Legislative Assembly. Regulators include Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones (MICITT), Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes (PRODHAB).

## Overview

Costa Rica launched its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2024–2027 in October 2024 through the Ministry of Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications (MICITT), built on the UNESCO readiness assessment and OECD principles, and a draft AI regulation bill (Expediente 23.771) is before the Legislative Assembly. Costa Rica was the first Central American country to complete UNESCO's Readiness Assessment Methodology.

## Regulatory status

National AI strategy 2024–2027 adopted; AI bill under consideration in the Legislative Assembly.

## What is binding and what is guidance

Binding: none recorded. Strategy or guidance: National AI Strategy 2024–2027.

## Regulators

- Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación, Tecnología y Telecomunicaciones (MICITT) — AI strategy lead — https://www.micitt.go.cr/
- Agencia de Protección de Datos de los Habitantes (PRODHAB) — Data-protection authority — https://www.prodhab.go.cr/

## How to use this profile

- Open the official source on each instrument before relying on any date or obligation.
- Treat strategies and guidance as signals of coming regulation, not as binding requirements.
- Check data-protection, consumer, employment and sector law that applies to AI systems regardless of AI-specific instruments.

## Official sources

- Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2024–2027 — MICITT — https://www.micitt.go.cr/

## Instruments recorded for this jurisdiction (1)

- **Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial de Costa Rica 2024–2027** — National strategy, Adopted, non-binding
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/costa-rica-national-ai-strategy-2024-2027
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/costa-rica-national-ai-strategy-2024-2027.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/jurisdictions/costa-rica
- **Official source**: https://www.micitt.go.cr/
- **Source document**: Estrategia Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial 2024–2027
- **Published by**: MICITT
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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