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Nicaragua — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Nicaragua, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
4.92%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -34.3% since 1961
GDP growth for Nicaragua was 4.92% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 14.19% in 1974. The lowest was -26.48% in 1979 (about -5.4× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.65% per year.
Nicaragua ranks 56 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 26%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 3.38%, so Nicaragua sits above it. It peaked in 1974 and has fallen 65% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 3%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
4.92%
First (1961)
7.50%
Change
-34.3%
Highest
14.19%
in 1974
Lowest
-26.48%
in 1979
Average
2.86%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.65%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 4.92% |
| 2024 | 3.58% |
| 2023 | 4.43% |
| 2022 | 3.55% |
| 2021 | 10.45% |
| 2020 | -2.24% |
| 2019 | -2.9% |
| 2018 | -3.36% |
| 2017 | 4.63% |
| 2016 | 4.56% |
| 2015 | 4.79% |
| 2014 | 4.79% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.