Nicaragua

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Nicaragua

Central America · data available 2001-2019 (19 years)

40.6POP (2019)
#3of 18 countries, 2019
89thpercentile, 2019

Score over time

Figure 1: Nicaragua: POP, PEP, and PIP by year

What’s driving the score

Latest-year breakdown of the six Institutional Populism components and four Economic Populism components – see Documentation for what each one measures.

Figure 2: Nicaragua: sub-index components, latest year

Nicaragua vs. the regional average

Figure 3: Nicaragua vs. regional average POP

Governing party by year

The populist rhetoric score (POP_R) is specific to whichever party governed that year – see Documentation for how this is determined.

Year Governing party Populist rhetoric (POP_R)
2019 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2018 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2017 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2016 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2015 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2014 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.68
2013 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.68
2012 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.68
2011 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.67
2010 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.68
2009 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.69
2008 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.70
2007 Sandinista National Liberation Front 0.71
2006 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.35
2005 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.36
2004 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.36
2003 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.36
2002 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.37
2001 Constitutionalist Liberal Party 0.37