World Data Atlas
Nicaragua
President:
Daniel Ortega
Vice President:
Rosario Murillo
Capital city:
Managua
Languages:
Spanish (official) 95.3%, Miskito 2.2%, Mestizo of the Caribbean coast 2%, other 0.5% note: English and indigenous languages found on the Caribbean coast (2005 est.)
Government
National statistics office
Population, persons:
6,962,209
(2025)
Area, sq km:
120,340
GDP per capita, US$:
2,848
(2024)
GDP, billion current US$:
19.7
(2024)
GINI index:
46.2
(2014)
Ease of Doing Business rank:
142
Key Indicators
Rankings
Topics
Departments
Sources
B
C
D
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H
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U
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Y
B
Bertelsmann Stiftung - BS
(1)
C
Cato Institute - CATO
(1)
Charities Aid Foundation - CAF
(1)
Chinn-Ito Index
(1)
D
DHL
(1)
E
Economic Policy Uncertainty - policyuncertainty
(1)
F
Fraser Institute
(1)
Freedom House - FH
(1)
Fund for Peace - FFP
(1)
G
Germanwatch
(1)
Global Democracy Ranking
(1)
Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute - GEDI
(1)
Global Finance Magazine
(1)
Global Hunger Index - GHI
(1)
Global Innovation Index - GII
(1)
H
Health Effects Institute - HEI
(1)
Heritage Foundation - HF
(1)
I
Institute for Economics and Peace - IEP
(2)
International Finance and Macroeconomics (IFM) Milken Institute - IFMMI
(1)
K
Knowledge4All
(1)
L
Legatum Institute
(1)
N
Numbeo
(1)
O
Open Data Watch
(1)
Open Knowledge International - OKFN
(1)
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - OECD
(2)
Our World in Data - OWID
(1)
P
Philipps-University of Marburg, Empirical Institutional Economics - University of Marburg
(1)
Political Terror Scale - PTS
(1)
Property Rights Alliance - PRA
(1)
Q
Quality of Government Institute - qog
(1)
S
SolAbility - SolAb
(1)
Strategy&
(1)
Sustainable Development Solutions Network - SDSN
(2)
U
United Nations Development Programme - UNDP
(1)
United Nations Public Administration Country Studies - UNPACS
(1)
University of Keele - Keele University
(1)
W
Walk Free Foundation
(1)
World Bank - WB
(4)
World Economic Forum - WEF
(2)
World Economics and Politics (WEP) Dataverse - WEP
(1)
World Energy Council
(1)
World Justice Project - WJP
(1)
Y
Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy - YCELP
(1)