The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Quality of Life (71/100) — sharpest risk, governance weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 40/100 | Fiscal Balance |
| Governance | 22/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 71/100 | Electricity Access |
| Innovation | 27/100 | — |
| Stability | 54/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | — | now 44, versus 44 three years ago, across 5 categories |
| Resilience | 46/100 | Pandemic 61 · Banking Crisis 41 · War / Conflict 39 · Natural Disaster 43 |
| Strategic Position | 43/100 | Demographics 78 · Resources 25 · Stability 54 · Education 50 · Technology 27 · Geopolitics 23 |
Nicaragua scores 43 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: flat versus three years ago (now 44). Its strongest area is Quality of Life (71/100). The risk drawing attention: Governance weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Nicaragua scores 43 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Quality of Life (71/100) and its weakest is Governance (22/100).
Nicaragua's Stability score is 54 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Nicaragua's Economy score is 40 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Nicaragua's Quality of Life score is 71 out of 100 (strong), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Nicaragua's Governance score is 22 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Nicaragua's Innovation score is 27 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Nicaragua is unchanged versus three years ago — 44 then and now — across the 5 categories with time-series coverage.
Nicaragua's defining asset is fiscal balance, while its sharpest risk is governance weakness — civil Justice 29.8 — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Nicaragua's Strategic Position score is 43 out of 100 (weak), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Nicaragua scores 39 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 46/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.