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Nicaragua

Nicaragua Media Stats

Definitions

STAT AMOUNT DATE RANK HISTORY
Broadcast media multiple privately owned terrestrial TV networks, supplemented by cable TV in most urban areas; of more than 100 radio stations, nearly all are privately owned; Radio Nicaragua is government-owned and Radio Sandino is controlled by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) 2007
Households with television 59.1% 2001 89th out of 153
Internet > Fixed broadband Internet subscribers per 1000 16.49 2012 122nd out of 188
Internet > Internet users > Per 100 people 13.5 2012 150th out of 201
Internet > Internet users per thousand people 133.58 2013 154th out of 205
Internet > Users per 1000 28.05 2006 120th out of 152
Internet users 199,800 2009 136th out of 206
Personal computers > Per capita 42.72 per 1,000 people 2005 31st out of 58
Personal computers per 1000 40.33 2005 33th out of 58
Radio > List of radio stations

Radio Corporacion - commercial

Radio Mundial - commercial

Radio Nicaragua - government-owned


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2013
Telecoms > Mobile cellular subscriptions > Per 100 people 89.77 2012 126th out of 200
Telephones > Mobile cellular > Per capita 374.07 per 1,000 people 2007 108th out of 162
Television > List of TV stations

Nicavision Canal 12 - commercial

Canal 10 - commercial

Telenica Canal 8 - commercial


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2013
Television receivers > Per capita 68.63 per 1,000 people 1997 111th out of 178
Televisions per 1000 60.17 2003 132nd out of 191

SOURCES: CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 28 March 2011; World Development Indicators database; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; International Telecommunication Union, World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report and database, and World Bank estimates.; Wikipedia: List of countries by number of Internet users (Calculated using penetration rate and population data from "Countries and Areas Ranked by Population: 2012" , Population data, International Programs, U.S. Census Bureau, retrieved 26 June 2013). Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; Internet World Stats, June 30, 2010; World Development Indicators database. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.; British Broadcasting Corporation 2014; Source: UNESCO UIS Data | UNESCO Institute for Statistics; CIA World Factbook, December 2003. Population figures from World Bank: (1) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects, (2) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report (various years), (3) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, (4) Eurostat: Demographic Statistics, (5) Secretariat of the Pacific Community: Statistics and Demography Programme, and (6) U.S. Census Bureau: International Database.

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In response to <i>Anthony</i>: - Nicaragua is a republic. The head of state is President Enrique BOLANOS Geyer and the Vice President is Jose RIZO Castellon. Both the president and the vice-president are elected for a five year term by the people. For more government information including <a href=/graph/gov_adm_div>administrative divisions</a>, <a href=/graph/gov_pol_par_and_lea>political parties</a> and <a href=/graph/gov_con>constitution</a> see the <a href=/country/nu/Government>government</a> page of the Nicaragua profile.

Posted on 28 Mar 2005

Edria Murray, Staff editor

Edria Murray, Staff editor

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