| Metric | Value | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tracked flow records | 616 | Raw count of trade-flow records in the database naming Nicaragua as an origin or destination — a record count, never a summed dollar total. |
| Port coverage | 4of 14 | Ports catalogued for Nicaragua with verified cargo statistics tracked on PortIndex. |
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How concentrated Nicaragua's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — Nicaragua's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
+ 190 more tracked partners not shown above.
Every one of Nicaragua's 129 real trading partners reported for 2024 under UN Comtrade (NI) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for Nicaragua's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare Nicaragua against all 68 covered countries.
| Metric | Latest value | Year | Trend (2002–2014) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of exporting firms | 1,400 | 2014 | |
| Incumbent exporting firms | 941 | 2014 | |
| New entrant exporting firms | 459 | 2014 | |
| Exiting exporting firms | 661 | 2014 | |
| Firm entry rate | 32.8% | 2014 | |
| Firm exit rate | 41.3% | 2014 | |
| Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale) | 0.022 | 2014 | |
| Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes) | 835 | 2014 | |
| Avg. export value per exporting firm | $3.5M | 2014 | |
| Median export value per exporting firm | $65.9K | 2014 | |
| Avg. destination countries per exporting firm | 2.5 | 2015 | |
| Median destination countries per exporting firm | 1.0 | 2015 |
The 2014 mean is 54x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Top product categories among Nicaragua's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2014 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
| Product category (HS2) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84 | 277 |
| Plastics and articles thereof HS 39 | 162 |
| Wood and articles of wood HS 44 | 156 |
| Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85 | 140 |
| Coffee, tea, mate, spices HS 09 | 123 |
| Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94 | 120 |
| Articles of iron or steel HS 73 | 118 |
| Inorganic chemicals HS 28 | 103 |
Top manufacturing industries among Nicaragua's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2014 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
| Manufacturing industry (ISIC) | Exporting firms |
|---|---|
| Plastics products ISIC 252 | 169 |
| General purpose machinery ISIC 291 | 159 |
| Meat, fish, fruit, vegetables, oils and fats ISIC 151 | 140 |
| Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289 | 138 |
| Special purpose machinery ISIC 292 | 132 |
| Other chemical products ISIC 242 | 130 |
| Other textiles ISIC 172 | 123 |
| Furniture ISIC 361 | 109 |