3. Costa Rica
Life expectancy: 78.6 years
GDP per capita: $15,500
Health expenditure: 9.3% of GDP
Education expenditure: 7% of GDP
Up next on our list of best countries with birthright citizenship is Costa Rica which has had problems with illegal immigration for years. According to the census from 2012, immigrants account for 9% of the total population, while the majority of them comes from Nicaragua and Columbia. The country has the highest immigrant population in the Latin America. Besides the influx of immigrants from nearby countries, the number of people from Africa, Asia, and Cuba who enter the country illegally has also been increasing in the last few years.
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