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Nicaragua

7,007,502

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+91.36K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+39.5%from 5.02M
Life expectancy75.1 years2024
Fertility rate2.21births per woman · 2024
Urban population59.4%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Lower middle income

A country at every age

How Nicaragua is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1428.3%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.0%Working-age population
Ages 65+5.7%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate19.1births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate4.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+14.5births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-8.37Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Nicaragua look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 8.76M in 2050—26.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20246.92M
  2. 20508.76M
  3. 21008.61M
Median age in 205034.9years
Births in 2050114.39Kduring the year
Deaths in 205059.15Kduring the year
Life expectancy79.2years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19601.78M
  2. 19702.42M
  3. 19803.25M
  4. 19904.16M
  5. 20005.02M
  6. 20105.74M
  7. 20206.57M
  8. 20257.01M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/21/2026

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