Nicaragua

Economic Freedom Rating, 5-Yr Change - Nicaragua Compared to Continent

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Suriname	14.79%
Chile	5.02%
Paraguay	3.95%
Ecuador	2.44%
Mexico	1.58%
Honduras	-0.28%
Peru	-1.70%
Guyana	-1.83%
Argentina	-2.07%
Uruguay	-2.52%
Guatemala	-2.93%
El Salvador	-3.22%
Costa Rica	-3.41%
Colombia	-3.53%
Nicaragua	-4.26%
Panama	-5.48%
Brazil	-11.80%
Bolivia	-17.18%
Venezuela	-18.00%

Nicaragua: Economic freedom index, 5-year change

Increased economic freedom is strongly associated with high GDP growth, and therefore with rises in residential property prices. Changes in a country’s score on the Heritage Foundation’s freedom index are calculated by the Global Property Guide to produce a 5-point rating:

• Greatly Improved
• Improved
• Nuetral
• Worse
• Much Worse

Source: Calculated using figures from The Heritage Foundation and the Wall Street Journal

Nicaragua has no house price statistics. The site of the Central Bank (Banco Central de Nicaragua) has quite good time-series, monthly and annual. Statistics are also published by the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos, but the site is somewhat eccentric, with many time-series apparently broken into two, 1990-1999, and 200-2002 – and data only available in pdf format. There is also some statistical material in report format on the Ministerio de Economía y Finanzas site.