Dealing with construction … Score 0-15 Building control in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index was 23.33 in 2019. ▬ Flat
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Nicaragua, 2014–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
Nicaragua recorded 23.33 for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in 2019. That is the highest value across all 6 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is unchanged over ten years.
Nicaragua ranks 179th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index in Nicaragua, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 23.33 | — |
| 2015 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2016 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2017 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2018 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
| 2019 | 23.33 | +0.0% |
Nicaragua compared with similar countries
- Nicaragua's 23.33 is below the median for lower middle income countries, which is 66.67, 35% of the median. (47 countries reporting)
- Nicaragua's 23.33 is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 60, 39% of the median. (33 countries reporting)
Countries ranked near Nicaragua
- 177 Comoros 26.67 compare
- 177 Guyana 26.67 compare
- 179 Gambia 23.33 compare
- 181 Afghanistan 20 compare
- 181 East Timor 20 compare
More private sector data for Nicaragua
- Merchandise trade 95.9% (2025)
- Food imports 16.6% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 68.6% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 12.43 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 42.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 37.0% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 8.89 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 1,269 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.3999 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 18.23 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Nicaragua?
- Dealing with construction permits: building quality control index in Nicaragua was 23.33 in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 23.33 in 2014.
- What is the lowest dealing with construction permits: building quality control index recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 23.33 in 2014.
- How does Nicaragua rank for dealing with construction permits: building quality control index?
- Nicaragua ranks 179th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is dealing with construction permits: building quality control index rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is unchanged. The long-run trend across the full record is flat.
- Where does this Nicaragua data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Dealing with construction permits: Building quality control index (0-15) (DB16-20 methodology) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The score for the building quality control index benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance, and is computed based on the methodology in the DB16-20 studies.