Quality of life comparison

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If you lived in Nicaragua instead of Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), you would:

Basic Needs

be 38.0% less likely to have internet access

In Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), approximately 99.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Nicaragua, about 61.4% do as of 2024.

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be 12.7% less likely to have access to drinking water

In Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), approximately 95% of people have access to drinking water (100% in urban areas, and 78% in rural areas) as of 2020. In Nicaragua, that number is 83% of people on average (98% in urban areas, and 63% in rural areas) as of 2020.

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Geography

see 29.3% less coastline

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) has a total of 1,288 km of coastline. In Nicaragua, that number is 910 km.

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Infrastructure

find 79.2% less home broadband

Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) has 27.8 fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 people as of 2022. Nicaragua has 5.8 as of 2024.

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Sources: The World Factbook (2020–2021), World Bank (2024), United Nations SDG Indicators (2022). How we calculate this

Compare further: Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) vs. Nicaragua

Cost of Living Comparison · 6 categories - 2026 data
Nicaragua is 61.0% cheaper than Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) overall
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Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) is about 11 times smaller than Nicaragua.
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Nicaragua: At a glance

Nicaragua is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 119,990 sq km. The Pacific coast of Nicaragua was settled as a Spanish colony from Panama in the early 16th century. Independence from Spain was declared in 1821 and the country became an independent republic in 1838. Britain occupied the Caribbean Coast in the first half of the 19th century, but gradually ceded control of the region in subsequent decades. Violent opposition to governmental manipulation and corruption spread to all classes by 1978 and resulted in a short-lived civil war that brought the Marxist Sandinista guerrillas to power in 1979. Nicaraguan aid to leftist rebels in El Salvador caused the US to sponsor anti-Sandinista contra guerrillas through much of the 1980s. After losing free and fair elections in 1990, 1996, and 2001, former Sandinista President Daniel ORTEGA Saavedra was elected president in 2006 and reelected in 2011. The 2008 municipal elections, 2010 regional elections, 2011 presidential elections, 2012 municipal elections, and 2013 regional elections were marred by widespread irregularities. Nicaragua's infrastructure and economy - hard hit by the earlier civil war and by Hurricane Mitch in 1998 - are slowly being rebuilt, but democratic institutions have been weakened under the ORTEGA administration.
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