Nicaragua 
Facts
Population: 5,675,356 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 35.5% (male 1,025,426/female 988,148)
15-64 years: 61.3% (male 1,734,153/female 1,746,574)
65 years and over: 3.2% (male 79,589/female 101,466) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.855% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 24.12 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 4.42 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -1.15 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.038 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.993 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.784 male(s)/female
total population: 1.001 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 27.14 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 30.45 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 23.67 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.92 years
male: 68.82 years
female: 73.13 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.69 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.2% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 6,400 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Nicaraguan(s)
adjective: Nicaraguan.
Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 69%, white 17%, black 9%, Amerindian 5%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 72.9%, Evangelical 15.1%, Moravian 1.5%, Episcopal 0.1%, other 1.9%, none 8.5% (1995 census).
Languages: Spanish 97.5% (official), Miskito 1.7%, other 0.8% (1995 census)
note: English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 67.5%
male: 67.2%
female: 67.8% (2003 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $17.33 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 3.7% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 17.3%
industry: 25.8%
services: 56.8% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 2.261 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 29%
industry: 19%
services: 52% (2006 est.).
Population below poverty line: 48% (2005).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.2%
highest 10%: 45% (2001).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 9.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 3.8% plus underemployment of 46.5% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $1.1 billion
expenditures: $1.3 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, bananas, sugarcane, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco, sesame, soya, beans; beef, veal, pork, poultry, dairy products; shrimp, lobsters.
Industries: food processing, chemicals, machinery and metal products, textiles, clothing, petroleum refining and distribution, beverages, footwear, wood.
Industrial production growth rate: 2.4% (2005 est.).
Electricity - production: 2.778 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - consumption: 2.929 billion kWh (2006).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2006).
Electricity - imports: 69.34 million kWh (2006).
Exports: $1.714 billion f.o.b.; note - includes free trade zones (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: coffee, beef, shrimp and lobster, tobacco, sugar, gold, peanuts.
Exports - partners: US 34.1%, El Salvador 14.3%, Honduras 7.9%, Costa Rica 6.1%, Guatemala 5.2%, Mexico 5.1%, Spain 4.2% (2005).
Imports: $3.202 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: consumer goods, machinery and equipment, raw materials, petroleum products.
Imports - partners: US 20.1%, Venezuela 11.9%, Costa Rica 8.9%, Mexico 8.3%, Guatemala 7%, El Salvador 5.1%, Japan 4.5%, Ecuador 4.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $3.763 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $471 million (2006 est.).
Currency (code): gold cordoba (NIO).
Exchange rates: gold cordobas per US dollar - 17.582 (2006), 16.733 (2005), 15.937 (2004), 15.105 (2003), 14.251 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Weekly political analysis magazine), Managua
http://www.confidencial.com.ni/
Crítica
(Pro-Sandinista bimonthly), Managua
El Nicaragüense
(Conservative), Managua
(Left-wing, pro-Sandinista), Managua
http://www.elnuevodiario.com.ni/
El Pais
Nicaragua
El Pueblo
(Marxist-Leninist Party-owned weekly), Managua
El Semanario
(Sandinista weekly), Managua
Nicaragua in the News
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Since projecting Daniel Ortega into the presidency, poverty-stricken Nicaragua seemed to have been granted an older, more traditional version of Daniel Ortega, seasoned revolutionary.
Anti-Bush demonstrations in Santiago, Chile highlight a new political trend in Latin America - where many countries are moving to the center-left as the United States takes a sharp turn to the right
A review of the documentary The World Stopped Watching
'Ironically, with the arrival of elected governments, we have witnessed the aggressive, disproportionate growth of corruption, to the degree that it has become the main obstacle to governability,' writes Nicaraguan novelist and essayist Sergio Ramírez for Mexico City's La Jornada.
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