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Nicaragua

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Nicaragua is a country. The capital city is Managua, located in the Central America region of Americas. It has a land area of 120,340 km², a population of 6,823,613 people and uses the currency Nicaraguan gold cordoba. The President is Daniel Ortega.

Key facts

currency: Nicaraguan gold cordoba
capital city: Managua
region: Central America
continent: Americas
land area: 120,340 km²
population: 6,823,613 people
political leader: Daniel Ortega (President)

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expense: 16.67 % of GDP
GDP: 17,829,218,219.36 current US$
inflation: 8.39 annual %
self-employed workers: 42.99 % of total employment
tax revenue: 19.84 % of GDP
unemployment: 4.72 % of total labor force
vulnerable employment: 37.57 % of total employment
armed forces personnel: 12,000 people
democracy score: 3.63
democracy type: Authoritarian
internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 1,300 people
individuals using the Internet: 58.20 % of population
military expenditure: 0.55 % of GDP
net migration: -7,996 people
press freedom: 2.20
proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 51.65 %
birth rate: 20.02 per 1,000 people
death rate: 4.66 per 1,000 people
health expenditure per capita: 198.08 current US$
health expenditure: 9.68 % of GDP
incidence of HIV: 0.08 per 1,000 uninfected population
hospital beds: 0.90 per 1,000 people
life expectancy at birth: 75
suicide mortality rate: 4.40 per 100,000 population
agricultural land: 50,910.00 km²
alternative and nuclear energy: 3.34 % of total energy use
carbon dioxide emissions (CO2): 5.73 Mt of CO2 equivalent
access to electricity: 86.50 % of population
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: 2.28 births per woman
forest area: 32,075 km²
fossil fuel energy consumption: 40.70 % of total
greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6): 20.63 Mt of CO2 equivalent
median age: 21.30
methane emissions: 11.12 Mt of CO2 equivalent
nitrous oxide emissions: 3.63 Mt of CO2 equivalent
female population: 3,468,026 people
male population: 3,355,587 people
renewable energy consumption: 50.40 % of total final energy consumption
rural land area: 118,297.55 km²
rural population: 2,739,749 people
urban land area: 992.83 km²
urban population: 4,083,864 people
urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.94 % of total population

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