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Nicaragua is located in Central America, between the Caribbean Sea and the North Pacific Ocean, north of Costa Rica.
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population: about 5.8 million, with the lowest populatin density in Central America.
size: 49,998 square miles, Nicaragua is the largest Central American country.
health: 21% of Nicaraguans do not have access to clean water. 53% do not have access to sanitation. 10% of Nicaraguan children suffer from malnutrition.
economy: 45.1% of Nicaraguans live on less than a dollar a day. 48% of Nicaraguans live in poverty. Nicaraugua has the 5th highest level of income inequality in the world. (The wealthiest 20% of the population receives 27.5 times more income than the poorest 20%).
culture: The official language, spoken by almost all Nicaraguans, is Spanish. 72.9% of the total population is Roman Catholic. 15.1% of Nicaraguans are Evangelical Christians. 32.5% of Nicaraguans are illiterate.
last updated 6/3/08 sources
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Nicaragua—Issue 6
Ten-year-old Jose Luis lives in a simple tarp shelter atop a hill of trash in a city dump known as La Churreca. He doesn’t know where his parents are and lives by scavenging food or scrap ...
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