Sweets and sugars — Potassium supply — Value in Nicaragua
Nicaragua: Sweets and sugars — Potassium supply — Value was 56 mg/cap/d in 2023. ▼ Falling
Sweets and sugars — Potassium supply — Value in Nicaragua, 2010–2023
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Measured in mg/cap/d.
Analysis
In 2023, sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value in Nicaragua stood at 56 mg/cap/d.
The figure is up 3.7% on the previous year and down 25.3% over ten years.
Over the whole period, sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value in Nicaragua peaked at 79 mg/cap/d in 2012 and was at its lowest, 34 mg/cap/d, in 2014.
That places Nicaragua 89th out of 163 countries with data for 2023, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 14 years of available data.
Sweets and sugars — Potassium supply — Value in Nicaragua, year by year
| Year | mg/cap/d | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 62 mg/cap/d | — |
| 2011 | 68 mg/cap/d | +9.7% |
| 2012 | 79 mg/cap/d | +16.2% |
| 2013 | 75 mg/cap/d | -5.1% |
| 2014 | 34 mg/cap/d | -54.7% |
| 2015 | 36 mg/cap/d | +5.9% |
| 2016 | 39 mg/cap/d | +8.3% |
| 2017 | 46 mg/cap/d | +17.9% |
| 2018 | 52 mg/cap/d | +13.0% |
| 2019 | 51 mg/cap/d | -1.9% |
| 2020 | 46 mg/cap/d | -9.8% |
| 2021 | 47 mg/cap/d | +2.2% |
| 2022 | 54 mg/cap/d | +14.9% |
| 2023 | 56 mg/cap/d | +3.7% |
Nicaragua compared with similar countries
- Nicaragua's 56 mg/cap/d is above the median for lower middle income countries, which is 33.5 mg/cap/d, 1.7× the median. (38 countries reporting)
- Nicaragua's 56 mg/cap/d is below the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 64.5 mg/cap/d, 87% of the median. (30 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 54.2 mg/cap/d | 34 mg/cap/d | 79 mg/cap/d | 10 |
| 2020s | 50.75 mg/cap/d | 46 mg/cap/d | 56 mg/cap/d | 4 |
Countries ranked near Nicaragua
More agriculture & rural data for Nicaragua
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), annual 12.55 % change on previous year (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 0.1448 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishing, value added (current US$), per 459.4 current US$ per person (2025)
- Rural population, annual growth rate 0.8714 % change on previous year (2025)
- Rural population, per unit of GDP 0.0001 units per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Rural population, per capita 0.4056 units per person (2025)
- Share of GDP from agriculture 14.5% (2025)
- Agriculture as a share of GDP vs. GDP per capita 14.5% (2025)
- Agricultural raw materials exports 0.6% (2024)
- Agricultural raw materials imports 1.3% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value in Nicaragua?
- Sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value in Nicaragua was 56 mg/cap/d in 2023, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- What is the highest sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value recorded in Nicaragua?
- The highest recorded value was 79 mg/cap/d in 2012.
- What is the lowest sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value recorded in Nicaragua?
- The lowest recorded value was 34 mg/cap/d in 2014.
- How does Nicaragua rank for sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value?
- Nicaragua ranks 89th out of 163 countries with data for 2023.
- Is sweets and sugars — potassium supply — value rising or falling in Nicaragua?
- Over the last ten years it is down 25.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Nicaragua data come from?
- The figures come from Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, published as part of Sweets and sugars — Potassium supply — Value. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
The dataset presents average daily per capita macro and micro nutrient availability by country and by FAO/WHO GIFT food groups (that are different from those used for the Food Balance Sheets), expressed in grams/milligrams/micrograms/kcal per capita per day. The population numbers used to calculate these statistics can be found in the Supply Utilization Accounts (SUA) dataset of FAOSTAT, as Total Population. Food availability quantities are derived from the SUA dataset. SUAs present a comprehensive picture of the pattern of a country's food supply and utilization during a specified reference period. The SUA shows for each food item - i.e. each primary commodity and a number of processed commodities potentially available for human consumption - the sources of supply and its utilization. The total quantity of foodstuffs produced in a country added to the total quantity imported and adjusted to any change in stocks that may have occurred since the beginning of the reference period gives the supply available during that period. On the utilization side a distinction is made between the quantities exported, fed to livestock, used for seed, put to manufacture for food use and non-food uses, losses during storage and transportation, and food supplies available for human consumption. The per capita supply of each such food item available for human consumption is then obtained by dividing the respective quantity by the related data on the population actually partaking of it.