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Country or Region: Nicaragua › Change country
Economic Indicator: Gross National Savings (% of GDP) › See all Nicaragua indicators, › See Gross National Savings (% of GDP) data for all countries
Detailed Analysis for Year: 2010 › Change year
Full Dataset: from 1980 to 2016
Dataset updated: 1st August 2011
Data Source: International Monetary Fund (IMF)
National or Regional Currency: C
Currency Symbol: NIC

Data are based on individual countries' national accounts statistics. For many countries, the estimates of national saving are built up from national accounts data on gross domestic investment and from balance of payments-based data on net foreign investment. Source: IMF Staff Latest actual data: 2010. 2010 Q3 GDP is available Notes: Due to political and economic events (civil war and hyperinflation) data prior to 1995 are less reliable. National accounts manual used: SNA 1993. In 2003 Nicaragua officially changed the base year of the national accounts from 1980 to 1994 and adopted the United Nations System of National Accounts (SNA93) for the calculation of GDP. Methodology described in: http://www.bcn.gob.ni/publicaciones/eventuales/pib_trimestral/PIB_Trimestral.pdf GDP valuation: Market prices Start/end months of reporting year: January/December Base year: 1994 Chain-weighted: Yes, from 1994 Primary domestic currency: Nicaraguan córdobas Data last updated: 03/2011

Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Nicaragua in year 2010 is 13.374 %

This makes Nicaragua No. 129 in world rankings according to Gross National Savings (% of GDP) in year 2010. The world's average Gross National Savings (% of GDP) value is 18.64 %; Nicaragua is 5.27 less than the average.

In the previous year, 2009, Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Nicaragua was 12.66 % Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Nicaragua in 2010 was or will be 5.66% more than it was or will be in 2009.

In the following or forecasted year, 2011, Gross National Savings (% of GDP) for Nicaragua was or will be 13.38 %, which is 0.03% more than the 2010 figure.