World population/Nicaragua
North America
Population of Nicaragua
7,097,332
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#108
world rank
0.09%
of world population
+1.25%
yearly change
+88,387
people this year
131,205
births a year
33,655
deaths a year
How the figure for Nicaragua is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Nicaragua at 7,097,332 on 1 July 2026, and projects 7,185,719 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Nicaragua at number 108 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.09 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 131,205 births and 33,655 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.