Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 115
914 to 1,523 m: 19
under 914 m: 96 (2007)

Pipelines:

refined products 242 km (2007)

Railways:

total: 278 km
narrow gauge: 278 km 1.067-m gauge
note: none of the railway network is in use (2007)

Roadways:

total: 35,330 km
paved: 8,621 km
unpaved: 26,709 km (2004)

Waterways:

730 km (seasonally navigable by small craft) (2007)

Merchant marine:

total: 1
by type: passenger/cargo 1 (2008)

Ports and terminals:

Caldera, Puerto Limon

Military
Costa Rica

Military branches:

no regular military forces; Ministry of Public Security, Government,
and Police (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16-49: 1,134,205
females age 16-49: 1,095,763 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16-49: 958,013
females age 16-49: 925,727 (2008 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 40,767
female: 38,899 (2008 est.)

Military expenditures:

0.4% of GDP (2006)

Transnational Issues
Costa Rica

Disputes - international:

the ICJ has given Costa Rica until January 2008 to reply and
Nicaragua until July 2008 to rejoin before rendering its decision on
the navigation, security, and commercial rights of Costa Rican
vessels on the Rio San Juan over which Nicaragua retains sovereignty

Refugees and internally displaced persons:

refugees (country of origin): 9,699-11,500 (Colombia) (2007)

Trafficking in persons:

current situation: Costa Rica is a source, transit, and destination
country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of
commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor; women and girls
from neighboring states, Russia, Uzbekistan, and the Philippines are
trafficked into the country for sexual exploitation; Costa Rica also
serves as a transit point for victims trafficked to North America
and Europe; the government identifies child sex tourism as a serious
problem; men, women, and children are also trafficked within the
country for forced labor in fishing and construction, and as
domestic servants
tier rating: Tier 2 Watch List - Costa Rica is on the Tier 2 Watch
List for its failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to
combat human trafficking, particularly in terms of its failure to
improve its inadequate assistance to victims; while Costa Rican
officials recognize human trafficking as a serious problem, the lack