Nicaragua
65 figures for Nicaragua, each the latest the source has. Pick one to see how Nicaragua compares.
Economy
- GDP per person $3,173 (2025)
- GDP per person, price-adjusted $9,284 (2025)
- Economic growth +4.9% (2025)
- Unemployment 5.0% (2025)
- Inflation +4.6% (2024)
- Exports 41.0% (2024)
- Income per person $6,884 (2023)
- Household wealth 55.6 (2015)
- Poorer households 45.4% (2015)
- Wealth inequality 0.27 (2015)
- Women in paid work 39.7% (2004)
People
- Population 6.82 million (2023)
- Population growth +1.31% (2025)
- Births per woman 2.21 (2024)
- Typical age 25.3 (2023)
- Living in cities 59.4% (2025)
- Human Development Index 0.706 (2023)
- Women’s vs men’s development 0.952 (2023)
- People per household 3.8 (2015)
- People over 65 4.8% (2004)
- Children under 15 37.1% (2004)
- Women’s age at first marriage 17.9 (2004)
- Mothers’ age at first birth 19.2 (2004)
Health
- Life expectancy 74.9 (2023)
- Child deaths (under 5) 11.2 (2024)
- Mothers dying in childbirth 60 (2023)
- Health spending per person $217 (2023)
- Measles vaccination 85% (2023)
- Overweight adults 67.2% (2022)
- Stunted children 19.8% (2004)
- Overweight children 7.9% (2004)
- Homes with piped water 70.0% (2015)
- Homes with a flush toilet 31.6% (2015)
Education
- Years of schooling 9.9 (2023)
- Expected years in school 11.5 (2023)
- Secondary school enrollment 70.2% (2023)
- Education spending 3.8% (2022)
- Teens in school 57.1% (2004)
Environment
- CO₂ per person 0.814 (2024)
- Total CO₂ emissions 5.63 million (2024)
- Forest cover 25.8% (2023)
- Air pollution (PM2.5) 20.5 (2024)
- Renewable energy share 50.4% (2021)
- Average temperature 25.6 (2022)
Energy
- Energy use per person 633 (2023)
- Access to electricity 88.7% (2024)
- Renewable electricity 62.4% (2024)
- Nuclear electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Coal electricity 0.0% (2024)
- Cooking with wood or dung 60.9% (2005)
Technology
- Internet users 61.4% (2024)
- Mobile phone subscriptions 104.3 (2022)
- Home broadband 5.0 (2022)
- Homes with internet 10.9% (2016)
- Homes with a mobile phone 92.6% (2015)
Food and farming
- Hunger 17.3% (2022)
- Cereal yield 2,515 (2023)
- Farmland 42.3% (2023)
- Jobs in farming 30.5% (2025)
Government
- Electoral democracy 0.15 (2025)
- Human rights 0.08 (2025)
- Control of corruption −1.38 (2025)
- Women in parliament 54.9% (2025)
- Military spending 0.5% (2024)
- Clean government 56.9 (2022)