Nicaragua

Facts

Population:  4,918,393 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  38.98% (male 976,087; female 941,141) 15-64 years:  58.08% (male 1,418,555; female 1,438,096) 65 years and over:  2.94% (male 62,963; female 81,551) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  2.15% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  27.64 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  4.82 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -1.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.04 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  0.99 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.77 male(s)/female total population:  1 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  33.66 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  69.05 years male:  67.1 years female:  71.11 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  3.18 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.2% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  4,900 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  360 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Nicaraguan(s) adjective:  Nicaraguan
Ethnic groups:  mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%
Religions:  Roman Catholic 85%, Protestant
Languages:  Spanish (official) note:  English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  65.7% male:  64.6% female:  66.6% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $13.1 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  5% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $2,700 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  31.6% industry:  22.8% services:  45.6% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  50% (2000 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  1.6% highest 10%:  39.8% (1993)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  11% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  1.7 million (1999)
Labor force - by occupation:  services 43%, agriculture 42%, industry 15% (1999 est.)
Unemployment rate:  20% plus considerable underemployment (1999 est.)
Budget:  revenues:  $734 million expenditures:  $836 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1999 est.)
Industries:  food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear, wood
Industrial production growth rate:  4.4% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  2.349 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  67.26% hydro:  17.71% nuclear:  0% other:  15.03% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  2.265 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  20 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  100 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, soya, beans; beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products
Exports:  $631 million (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  coffee, shrimp and lobster, cotton, tobacco, beef, sugar, bananas; gold
Exports - partners:  US 37.7%, El Salvador 12.5%, Germany 9.8%, Costa Rica 5.1%, Spain 2.5%, France 2.1% (1999)
Imports:  $1.6 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products, consumer goods
Imports - partners:  US 34.5%, Costa Rica 11.4%, Guatemala 7.3%, Panama 6.9%, Venezuela 5.9%, El Salvador 5.5% (1999)
Debt - external:  $6.4 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  NA
Currency:  gold cordoba (NIO)
Currency code:  NIO
Exchange rates:  gold cordobas per US dollar - 12.96 (November 2000), 12.69 (2000 est.), 11.81 (1999), 10.58 (1998), 9.45 (1997), 8.44 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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