Social indicators[1]
Population: 6.92M
GDP: USD 19.69B
Gini Index: 46.2
Population growth: 1.35 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 2,848 USD
Human Development Index: 0.706
Major disasters[2]
1972 - Managua Earthquake
10,000 Deaths
Loss 92.86% GDP
1998 - Mitch Hurricane
3,332 Deaths
Loss 20.8% GDP
2020 - Eta and Iota Hurricane
21 Deaths
Loss 5.9% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
77.9
Commercial
9.7
Industrial
6.7
Total
94.3
Residential (82.6%)
Commercial (10.3%)
Industrial (7.1%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1988 - 2014
Total reported losses:
$ 7,253M
Average annual losses:
$ 311M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 1,640M
Distribution by disaster type
Hydrological (52.1%)
Meteorological (38.9%)
Climatological (8.2%)
Geophysical (0.8%)
Other (0%)
Historical catalog
Historical Economic Loss Exceedance Curve
Hazard layers[5]
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References
1. World Development Indicators (2024). Washington DC. The World Bank. Available at: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators 2. EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database EM-DAT. (2008) Available at: https://www.emdat.be/ 3. Country/Territory Seismic Risk Profiles of the GEM Foundation (2023), Available at: https://github.com/gem/risk-profiles/ 4. DesInventar Version 9.20.04 - 2020. Available at https://db.desinventar.org