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🇸🇻 El Salvador
Republic of El Salvador
SLV SV $ United States dollar (USD)
Every statistic we track for El Salvador — 118 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$14,838
73.9 yrs
6.58
0.09
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📈 Economy
| Account Ownership | 43.4% | #117/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Account Ownership | 43.4% | #117/139 | 2024 |
| Bank Branches | 11.6 | #82/153 | 2024 |
| Current Account Balance | -3.3% | #116/190 | 2026 |
| Debit Card Ownership | 25.4% | #100/140 | 2024 |
| Digital Payments Usage | 28% | #81/97 | 2024 |
| Exchange Rate (per US$) | 1 | #150/197 | 2024 |
| Extreme Poverty | 4.6% | #11/237 | 2023 |
| Fiscal Balance | -2% | #66/189 | 2026 |
| GDP (current US$) | 39.8 | #109/190 | 2026 |
| GDP (PPP) | 95.4 | #107/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita | 6,196 | #119/190 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita (Long Run) | 9,219 | #96/165 | 2022 |
| GDP per Capita (PPP) | 14,838 | #117/191 | 2026 |
| GDP per Capita Growth | 1.6% | #140/184 | 2019 |
| Government Debt | 84.5% | #33/185 | 2026 |
| Income Inequality (Gini) | 39.8 | #15/57 | 2023 |
| Income per Person | 6,326 | #107/183 | 2018 |
| Income per Person | 6,326 | #107/183 | 2018 |
| Inflation (CPI) | 2.5% | #146/191 | 2026 |
| Made a Digital Payment | 18.3% | #116/144 | 2017 |
| Mobile Money Account | 5.8% | #74/80 | 2024 |
| Real GDP Growth | 3.3% | #81/191 | 2026 |
| Share of World GDP (PPP) | 0% | #116/191 | 2026 |
| Total GDP (Long Run) | 59,270,934,820 | #102/165 | 2022 |
| Unemployment Rate | 4.3% | #67/103 | 2026 |
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.8 | #121/217 | 2024 |
| Internally Displaced People | 71,500 | #30/38 | 2025 |
| Median Age | 28.4 | #148/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 6.3 | #108/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 6.4 | #107/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 308.5 | #48/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 68,182 | #32/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 75.1% | #71/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 98.3% | #145/214 | 2023 |
| Internet Users | 66.5% | #126/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 183.3 | #7/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 48.2% | #30/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
| Adult Obesity | 31% | #51/199 | 2022 |
| Alcohol Consumption per Capita | 3.6 | #124/207 | 2022 |
| Child Mortality (under-5) | 1 | #125/199 | 2024 |
| Health Spending (QoG) | 9.8% | #31/189 | 2022 |
| Hypertension Prevalence | 32.7% | #142/194 | 2019 |
| Infant Mortality (QoG) | 9.2 | #118/191 | 2023 |
| Life Expectancy | 73.9 | #88/188 | 2013 |
| Life Expectancy | 75.1 | #72/186 | 2020 |
| Suicide Rate | 7.8 | #97/185 | 2021 |
| Tobacco Use Prevalence | 8.6% | #146/167 | 2022 |
| Undernourishment | 6.7% | #72/166 | 2023 |
| Universal Health Coverage Index | 79 | #60/195 | 2023 |
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 89.9% | #20/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 3.2% | #71/112 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 8.1 | #101/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 343 | #76/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 365 | #69/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 373 | #71/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 1.5 | #126/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 794 | #104/149 | 2023 |
| Renewable Electricity | 90.8% | #19/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 38.9 | #140/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Homicide Rate | 52.7 | #1/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 21.5 | #32/195 | 2021 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 82.4% | #95/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 58.5% | #27/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 7.3 | #42/193 | 2025 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 19.9% | #96/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 9.5% | #47/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 4.2 | #82/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 58.4 | #41/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 14.4 | #36/193 | 2025 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 38.3% | #136/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.6 | #37/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1.1 | #11/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.4 | #93/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0 | #130/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.6 | #66/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.3 | #19/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.1 | #100/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.7 | #132/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 6.7% | #114/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 82.1% | #78/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 78% | #70/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 19 | #53/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 16% | #7/17 | 2024 |
| Masculinity | 40 | #49/65 | 2010 |
| Power Distance | 66 | #25/65 | 2010 |
| Signed a Petition | 12.2% | #78/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 4.1% | #104/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 4.8 | #53/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.2 | #92/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 3.6 | #61/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 72.9% | #77/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 50.8% | #119/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 4.3 | #113/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 94 | #8/65 | 2010 |
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