Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP was 15.34 % in 2023. ▲ Rising
Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP in Nicaragua, 1970–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in %.
Analysis
Nicaragua recorded 15.34 % for value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp in 2023.
The figure is down 7.2% on the previous year and down 7.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp in Nicaragua peaked at 21.5 % in 1996 and was at its lowest, 11.92 %, in 1981.
Nicaragua ranks 55th of 199 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 54 years of available data.
Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP in Nicaragua, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 14.67 % | — |
| 1971 | 14.59 % | -0.5% |
| 1972 | 14.64 % | +0.4% |
| 1973 | 14.55 % | -0.6% |
| 1974 | 14.24 % | -2.2% |
| 1975 | 13.18 % | -7.4% |
| 1976 | 13.29 % | +0.8% |
| 1977 | 13.49 % | +1.5% |
| 1978 | 14.55 % | +7.9% |
| 1979 | 16.67 % | +14.6% |
| 1980 | 12.99 % | -22.1% |
| 1981 | 11.92 % | -8.2% |
| 1982 | 12.66 % | +6.3% |
| 1983 | 13.62 % | +7.5% |
| 1984 | 14.65 % | +7.6% |
| 1985 | 13.93 % | -4.9% |
| 1986 | 12.23 % | -12.2% |
| 1987 | 17 % | +38.9% |
| 1988 | 16.96 % | -0.2% |
| 1989 | 18.84 % | +11.1% |
| 1990 | 17.66 % | -6.3% |
| 1991 | 17.16 % | -2.8% |
| 1992 | 17.49 % | +1.9% |
| 1993 | 17.52 % | +0.1% |
| 1994 | 19.1 % | +9.0% |
| 1995 | 20.2 % | +5.8% |
| 1996 | 21.5 % | +6.4% |
| 1997 | 20.04 % | -6.8% |
| 1998 | 19.27 % | -3.8% |
| 1999 | 17.07 % | -11.4% |
| 2000 | 17.84 % | +4.5% |
| 2001 | 16.88 % | -5.4% |
| 2002 | 16.5 % | -2.3% |
| 2003 | 15.69 % | -4.9% |
| 2004 | 16.04 % | +2.2% |
| 2005 | 16.21 % | +1.1% |
| 2006 | 15.9 % | -1.9% |
| 2007 | 16.46 % | +3.5% |
| 2008 | 16.26 % | -1.2% |
| 2009 | 16.07 % | -1.2% |
| 2010 | 16.98 % | +5.7% |
| 2011 | 18.88 % | +11.2% |
| 2012 | 17.61 % | -6.7% |
| 2013 | 16.49 % | -6.4% |
| 2014 | 16.71 % | +1.3% |
| 2015 | 16.11 % | -3.6% |
| 2016 | 14.92 % | -7.4% |
| 2017 | 15 % | +0.5% |
| 2018 | 15.32 % | +2.2% |
| 2019 | 15.53 % | +1.4% |
| 2020 | 15.73 % | +1.3% |
| 2021 | 15.44 % | -1.8% |
| 2022 | 16.52 % | +7.0% |
| 2023 | 15.34 % | -7.2% |
Nicaragua compared with similar countries
- Nicaragua's 15.34 % is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 16.34 %, 94% of the median. (41 countries reporting)
- Nicaragua's 15.34 % is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 4.24 %, 3.6× the median. (36 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 14.39 % | 13.18 % | 16.67 % | 10 |
| 1980s | 14.48 % | 11.92 % | 18.84 % | 10 |
| 1990s | 18.7 % | 17.07 % | 21.5 % | 10 |
| 2000s | 16.38 % | 15.69 % | 17.84 % | 10 |
| 2010s | 16.36 % | 14.92 % | 18.88 % | 10 |
| 2020s | 15.76 % | 15.34 % | 16.52 % | 4 |
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More environment data for Nicaragua
- Historical exposure to drought — Land soil moisture anomaly 3.64 Percentage change (2025)
- Historical exposure to drought — Cropland soil moisture anomaly 4.53 Percentage change (2025)
- Standard Deviation, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2024)
- Standard Deviation 0.243 °C (2024)
- Temperature change 1.89 °C (2024)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Export quantity, gaps filled 5 t (2022)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use, gaps filled 50,997 t (2022)
- Nutrient nitrogen N (total) — Agricultural Use, annual growth rate -17.97 % change on previous year (2022)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity, gaps filled 12,244 t (2022)
- Nutrient phosphate P2O5 (total) — Import quantity, annual growth rate -21.14 % change on previous year (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp in Nicaragua?
- Value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp in Nicaragua was 15.34 % in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 21.5 % in 1996.
- What is the lowest value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 11.92 % in 1981.
- How does Nicaragua rank for value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp?
- Nicaragua ranks 55th out of 199 countries with data for 2023.
- Is value added (agriculture, forestry and fishing) — share of gdp rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Nicaragua data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Value Added (Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing) — Share of GDP Standard Local Currency. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The FAOSTAT Macro Indicators database provides a selection of country-level macro indicators relating to total economy (Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation); agriculture activity; agriculture, forestry and fishing activity; total manufacturing activity; manufacturing of food products and beverages activity; manufacturing activity of tobacco products; and manufacturing activity of food, beverage and tobacco products.It releases time series for a selection of National Accounts variables, including gross domestic product, gross fixed capital formation, industry-level value added and gross output. The database also proposes additional indicators such as gross domestic product per capita, year-on-year growth rates and measures of industry contribution to gross domestic product. All data relating to Gross Domestic Product, Gross Fixed Capital Formation, agriculture, forestry and fishing activity, and to total manufacturing activity originates from the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates database, which consists of a complete and consistent set of time series of the main National Accounts aggregates of all UN Members States and other territories in the world for which National Accounts information is available. The UNSD database's content is based on the countries' official National Accounts data reported to UNSD through the annual National Accounts Questionnaire, supplemented with data estimates for any years and countries with incomplete or inconsistent information (See http://unstats.un.org/unsd/snaama/Introduction.asp). Data series relating to the sub-industry Agriculture activity are obtained from the UNSD national accounts Official Country Data databases while series on the Manufacturing activity of food and beverages products, manufacturing activity of tobacco products and manufacturing activity of food, beverages and tobacco products originates from the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) INDSTAT2 database. In order to ensure that sub-industry series are consistent in levels with National Accounts based series, which is needed to support comparability across industries (agriculture vs. agro-industry and sub-industries), UNIDO originating series are rescaled on UNSD National Accounts Estimates of Main Aggregates data series (See Section 17.5 for a more detailed description of the data processing steps).