🇳🇮Nicaragua

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Population

1.3%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.21

births/woman

Life Expectancy

75.1y

GDP / capita

$3.2K

Pop. Growth

1.31%

Net Migration

-8.4K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Nicaragua by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇭🇳Honduras13.6K(32.6%)

+18%

🇨🇷Costa Rica11.7K(28.1%)

+17%

🇺🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male3.4MTotal 7M3.6MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

11.3

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇸🇻El Salvador2.7K(6.4%)

+17%

🇬🇹Guatemala1.9K(4.6%)

+17%

🇨🇺Cuba1K(2.4%)

+17%

🇲🇽Mexico918(2.2%)

+17%

🇪🇸Spain498(1.2%)

+17%

🇨🇴Colombia485(1.2%)

+17%

🇵🇦Panama439(1.1%)

+17%

🇩🇪Germany325(0.8%)

+16%

🇦🇷Argentina292(0.7%)

+16%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Nicaragua diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Nicaragua who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇨🇷Costa Rica423.4K(46.8%)

+47%

🇺🇸United States295K(32.6%)

+16%

🇪🇸Spain98.5K(10.9%)

+611%

🇵🇦Panama23.7K(2.6%)

+115%

🇲🇽Mexico18.1K(2.0%)

+403%

🇨🇦Canada10.8K(1.2%)

+18%

🇬🇹Guatemala10.1K(1.1%)

+36%

🇭🇳Honduras8.1K(0.9%)

+46%

🇸🇻El Salvador8.1K(0.9%)

+7%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB1.8K(0.2%)

−8%

🇮🇹Italy1.6K(0.2%)

+85%

🇦🇺Australia877(0.1%)

+7%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024