Nicaragua
Republic of Nicaragua
- Capital
- Managua
- Region
- Central America
- Population, 2025
- 7.0 million
- Currency
- NIO
- Area
- 130,373 km²
Across Nicaragua's 16 priced cities, one person needs about $845 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $353.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%33
- Safety20%49
- Health care15%No data
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%85
- Connectivity10%55
- Cost10%84
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 30%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Corporate tax
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 15%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 49.2
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 50.8
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 11.3
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #68 worldwide
- 103
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #97 worldwide
- 28
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +13%
Cities in Nicaragua
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Chinandega | 64 | 38.1 | — | — | — | 126.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Masaya | 63 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 130.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Leon | 62 | 38.2 | $400 | — | — | 144.5K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 4Managua | 56 | 39.1 | $258 | $353 | 47.7 | 973.1K | Medium confidence, 14 contributors |
| 5Esteli | 56 | 33.4 | — | — | — | 96.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 6El Viejo | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 53.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 7Diriamba | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 35K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Ocotal | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 33.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9Jinotepe | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 29.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 10La Paz Centro | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 23.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Nandaime | 55 | 38.2 | — | — | — | 20.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 12Rivas | 55 | 33.5 | $150 | $500 | 87.5 | 30K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 13Matagalpa | 55 | 33.2 | $200 | $200 | 32.7 | 109.1K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 14Jinotega | 54 | 21.7 | $100 | $279 | 75.0 | 55K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 15San Juan del Sur | 45 | 33.3 | $425 | $350 | 43.2 | 7.8K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 16Granada | 39 | 29.1 | $425 | $135 | 17.9 | 89.4K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 17Bluefields | — | — | — | — | — | 44.4K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 18San Rafael del Sur | — | — | — | — | — | 29.8K | Low confidence |