🇳🇮 Nicaragua
Republic of Nicaragua
Every statistic we track for Nicaragua — 134 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$10,211
75.4 yrs
6.30
0.02
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 2.2 | #93/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.4 | #70/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 26.3 | #161/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 6 | #110/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 6.8 | #102/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 59 | #159/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 35,341 | #39/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 59.3% | #125/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 88.7% | #164/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 33.6% | #17/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 61.4% | #134/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 104.3 | #129/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 37.4% | #43/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Education Spending (QoG) | 2.9% | #78/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 7.8 | #107/146 | 2020 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 0.8 | #146/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 633 | #111/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 47.4 | #76/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 62.4% | #51/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 25 | #165/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 30.4% | #16/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.2 | #51/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 8.4 | #61/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 13.6 | #86/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 60.7% | #5/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 81.7% | #100/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 66.6% | #12/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 22.8 | #13/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 32.2% | #48/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 14.6% | #18/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.5 | #72/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 57.4 | #45/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 22.6 | #20/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 48.2% | #122/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.3 | #51/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1 | #34/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.3 | #107/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #81/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.7 | #45/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #21/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.3 | #64/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #123/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 12.9% | #61/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 90.2% | #31/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 92.9% | #9/143 | 2018 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 54.5% | #15/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #37/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.4 | #44/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 11.4% | #82/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 3.8% | #107/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4 | #97/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 3.9 | #109/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.3 | #85/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 67% | #103/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 48% | #127/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.1 | #127/153 | 2017 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.