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Country or Region: Nicaragua › Change country
Economic Indicator: Investment (% of GDP) › See all Nicaragua indicators, › See Investment (% 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

Investment (% of GDP) for Nicaragua in year 2010 is 27.507 %

This makes Nicaragua No. 39 in world rankings according to Investment (% of GDP) in year 2010. The world's average Investment (% of GDP) value is 21.70 %; Nicaragua is 5.81 more than the average.

In the previous year, 2009, Investment (% of GDP) for Nicaragua was 24.58 % Investment (% of GDP) for Nicaragua in 2010 was or will be 11.90% more than it was or will be in 2009.

In the following or forecasted year, 2011, Investment (% of GDP) for Nicaragua was or will be 31.02 %, which is 12.76% more than the 2010 figure.