Nicaragua
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Key facts
- Currency: Nicaraguan gold cordoba
- Capital city: Managua
- Region: Central America
- Continent: Americas
- Land area: 120,340 km²
- Population: 6,948,392
- Political Leader: Daniel Ortega (President)
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Metrics
General information
Business
| Expense | 16.65 % of GDP |
| GDP | 15,671,600,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 10.47 annual % |
| Self-employed | 42.93 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 19.81 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 4.75 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 37.43 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 50,910.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 3.34 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 4,582.20 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 6.44 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 49.95 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 43.61 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 40.86 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 2.32 births per woman |
| Forest area | 33,075 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 40.70 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 574.55 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 20.90 years |
| Methane emissions | 9,584.81 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 3,567.37 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 3,524,605 |
| Male Population | 3,423,787 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 52.13 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 118,298.00 km² |
| Rural population | 2,810,208 |
| Urban land area | 992.83 km² |
| Urban population | 4,138,184 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 0.94 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 20.51 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 4.86 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 161.20 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 8.63 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.08 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 0.93 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 74 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 4.40 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 86.29 % of population |
| Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence | 77 |
| Individuals using the Internet | 57.15 % of population |
| Net migration | -8,000 |
| Press freedom | 2.20 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 12,000 |
| Democracy score | 3.63 |
| Democracy type | Authoritarian |
| Military expenditure | 0.53 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 51.65 % |
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Coordinates: [13°0′N, -85°0′S]
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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