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Nicaragua

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A consolidated migration profile for Nicaragua: who arrives, who leaves, how many people are hosted or displaced, and the national context behind those numbers. Every figure below is a reported value from an official source — nothing is estimated or filled in.

CapitalManagua
RegionLatin America
SubregionLatin America & Caribbean (excluding high income)
Population7,007,502
Refugees hosted — People protected here
Refugees from here — Fled abroad
Migrants living here 43,757 Foreign-born stock
Net migration -8,371 Net outflow
Asylum-seekers — Awaiting a decision
Reporting year 2024 Most recent data
Latest figures · 2024

Key migration numbers

The headline counts for the most recent reporting year. Refugees hosted are people this country protects; asylum-seekers are still awaiting a decision; applications are new asylum claims lodged during the year.

2024Reporting year
No data available
Refugees hosted
No data available
Asylum-seekers
No data available
Applications (year)
Migration balance

Incoming vs outgoing

Annual estimates

Net migration is arrivals minus departures over the year. Positive means more people moved in than out. Migrant stock is the total foreign-born people living here now.

Net migration (year)-8,371Net outflow
Migrants living here43,757Migrant stock
Missing / dead migrants
No data available
IOM Missing Migrants Project
Historical series

Statistics

Recorded migrant, refugee and asylum populations over time. Each line is one category; gaps mean a year the source did not report a figure (the line bridges the gap rather than dropping to zero).

Population profile

Sex, age, religion & more

How the population breaks down across reported dimensions, grouped by the year each figure was reported (most recent first). Bars show each group’s share of the total; where only headcounts were published, the raw number is shown instead.

Religion

Religious make-up over time

National shares

Share of the population by faith across the recorded years. Each line is a stored national value; nothing is estimated.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1945 1950 1955 1960 1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2020
Christian Muslim Jewish Unaffiliated Other

See the full religion timeline for this country →

Places of worship

Places of worship over time

Recorded counts

No places-of-worship counts are recorded for this country yet. See the Places of worship page for the full picture.

See the full places-of-worship timeline for this country → · browse individual places →

Displaced population by age cohort for the most recent reported year. Age is summed across sexes in the source data, so this is a single series per cohort — not a male/female split.

Displaced population by sex over the reported years, stacked so the top line reads as the total.

Sex

Female 46.3%
Male 41.1%
Unknown 12.6%

Age

0-4 1.8%
12-17 10.1%
18-59 66.2%
5-11 5.2%
60+ 4.1%
Country context

National indicators

Economy

GDP (current US$)22,237,167,113.09 USD2025
GDP per capita (current US$)3,173.34 USD2025
Unemployment (% of labour force)5.04 %2025
Personal remittances received (US$)5,245,600,000.00 USD2024
Personal remittances received (% of GDP)26.63 %2024

Population

Population, total7,007,502.00 people2025
Population density56.70 people/km22023

Migration

Net migration-8,371.00 people2025
International migrant stock, total43,757.00 people2024
International migrant stock (% of population)0.60 %2024

Asylum decisions

Asylum decisions - recognised61.00 people2015
Asylum decisions - otherwise closed124.00 people2024
Asylum decisions - total124.00 people2024

Durable solutions

Returned refugees24.00 people2000
Resettlement arrivals5.00 people2009
Naturalisations6.00 people2013

Other

Life expectancy at birth, total (years)75.10 years2024
Current health expenditure (% of GDP)8.30 %2023
Primary completion rate, total (% of relevant age group)81.72 %2022
Gini index46.20 2014
Poverty headcount ratio at $2.15 a day (% of population)6.60 %2014
Context

Migration & quality of life

These charts place migration next to quality-of-life indicators over time. Correlation is not causation — a relationship here does not prove migration caused the change, or that a change caused the migration.

Economy

Gross domestic product

World Bank

GDP (current US$)

$22.24B

Reported 2025

GDP per capita (current US$)

$3,173

Reported 2025

Migrant stock as a share of the population (left axis, in percent) shown against life expectancy (right axis, in years) over the years.

Each point is one year: migrant share of population (x, in percent) versus life expectancy (y, in years).

Public safety

Recorded crime

Not migrant offending

National crime figures for context only — they describe the whole resident population and are not a measure of migrant offending.

Recorded crime by type
rate / 100k where available
CrimeRate / 100k
3.20
Homicide11.35
Public expenditure

Expenses

Migration-related public spending only — Official Development Assistance received and provided (which, for donor countries, includes in-donor refugee costs), in US dollars, stacked so the top line reads as the combined total for each year.

YearAmount (USD)Category
2023$581,782,471ODA received
2022$1,127,424,683ODA received
2021$754,050,720ODA received
2020$460,904,175ODA received
2019$388,128,754ODA received
2018$353,860,992ODA received
2017$562,592,102ODA received
2016$430,980,286ODA received
2015$457,921,082ODA received
2014$432,171,967ODA received
2013$495,796,326ODA received
2012$532,323,853ODA received
2011$536,584,900ODA received
2010$459,329,987ODA received
2009$661,431,946ODA received
2008$662,229,187ODA received
2007$729,804,199ODA received
2006$623,847,351ODA received
2005$656,351,685ODA received
2004$1,104,911,865ODA received
2003$737,344,238ODA received
2002$416,045,013ODA received
2001$825,074,097ODA received
2000$501,933,777ODA received
1999$597,739,685ODA received
1998$504,509,705ODA received
1997$354,160,004ODA received
1996$883,359,985ODA received
1995$569,070,007ODA received
1994$538,539,978ODA received
1993$316,929,993ODA received
1992$612,080,017ODA received
1991$799,020,020ODA received
1990$329,559,998ODA received
1989$242,149,994ODA received
1988$220,589,996ODA received
1987$145,000,000ODA received
1986$146,330,002ODA received
1985$100,809,998ODA received
1984$104,680,000ODA received
1983$93,889,999ODA received
1982$96,809,998ODA received
1981$95,720,001ODA received
1980$183,479,996ODA received
1979$82,849,998ODA received
1978$28,799,999ODA received
1977$23,690,001ODA received
1976$26,500,000ODA received
1975$27,190,001ODA received
1974$30,370,001ODA received
1973$27,760,000ODA received
1972$11,020,000ODA received
1971$15,010,000ODA received
1970$22,389,999ODA received
1969$16,190,001ODA received
1968$11,320,000ODA received
1967$11,280,000ODA received
1966$12,630,000ODA received
1965$9,250,000ODA received
1964$9,280,000ODA received
1963$7,780,000ODA received
1962$7,460,000ODA received
1961$9,380,000ODA received
1960$8,320,000ODA received
Sources & notes

Figures are consolidated from the UNHCR Refugee Data Finder and the World Bank / UNODC. Only reported values are shown — blanks mean a source did not publish a figure, never a fabricated estimate. Statistics describe recorded populations and movements and should not be read as causal relationships.