Nicaragua World Economy Ranking: 61 stats

Economic indicators provided by The World Bank. Freedom indexes by The Heritage and Cato Institute. Human development data from the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime.

Gross Domestic Product & Income

Stat	Nicaragua	Rank
GDP	$13.1B	133
GDP growth, 1 year	-4%	191
GDP growth, 5-years average	3%	91
Population	6.2M	109
GDP per capita	$2k	148
GDP per capita growth	-5.02%	190
Purchasing Power Parity conversion factor	11.57	81
Price level ratio of PPP conversion factor GDP to market exchange rate	0.37	143
GDP per capita, PPP adjusted	$5.7k	141
GNI, Atlas method	$13.1B	127
GNI per capita	$2k	139
GNI, PPP adjusted	$34.9B	123
GNI per capita, PPP adjusted	$5.4k	136

Financial system and Human development

Stat	Nicaragua	Rank
Income Tax Rate	30%	89
Corporate Tax Rate	30%	137
Inflation, consumer prices	5%	151
Inflation, GDP deflator	3.4%	109
Unemployment	4.5%	79
Economic Freedom Index	57.2	125
Personal Freedom Index	7.41	75
Human Freedom Index	7.22	65
Property Rights Index	33.5	165
Judical Effectiveness Index	19.5	170
Business Freedom Index	55.1	128
Fiscal Health Index	87.2	67
Labor Freedom Index	55.5	112
Investment Freedom Index	60	87
Financial Freedom Index	50	90
Trade Freedom Index	75.4	92
Monetary Freedom Index	71.5	137
Government Spending Index	77.5	66
Tax Burden Index	76.3	103
Government Integrity Index	24.3	150
Corruption Perceptions Index	25	169
Life expectancy at birth, years	74.1	95
Suicide mortality rate, per 100,000 people	12.2	146
Mortality caused by road traffic injury, per 100,000 people	15.3	97
Intentional homicides, per 100,000 people	7.4	137
International tourism, number of arrivals	1.3M	106

Government debt & reserves

Stat	Nicaragua	Rank
Central government debt, % of GDP	37.2%	134
External debt stocks, % of GNI	90.7%	13
External debt stocks	$11.6B	60
Short-term debt, % of total reserves	60.3%	22
Total debt service, % of exports and primary income	19%	36
Adjusted net savings including particulate emission damage, % of GNI	14.4%	44
Gross savings, % of GDP	23.6%	70
Gross capital formation, % of GDP	22.9%	95
Total reserves including gold	$2.3B	111
Foreign direct investment net inflows	$359.2M	118

Exports, imports and economic structure

Stat	Nicaragua	Rank
Exports of goods and services, % of GDP	42%	72
Imports of goods and services, % of GDP	51.3%	69
Current account balance (balance of payments)	$83M	47
Revenue excluding grants, % of GDP	16.8%	117
Grants excluding technical cooperation, BoP	$162.6M	84
Personal remittances received	$1.5B	70
Industry including construction value added, % of GDP	25.8%	85
Agriculture, forestry and fishing value added, % of GDP	15.5%	49
Charges for the use of intellectual property, payments BoP	$1.9M	136
Charges for the use of intellectual property, receipts BoP	N/A	-
Expense, % of GDP	16.7%	119
Government Expenditure, % of GDP	27.4%	113