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🇸🇻 El Salvador
Republic of El Salvador
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Every statistic we track for El Salvador — 150 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$14,838
75.1 yrs
6.58
0.09
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📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.8 | #121/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.4 | #81/172 | 2023 |
| 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 | 98.7% | #137/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 54.8% | #11/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 66.5% | #126/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 183.3 | #7/209 | 2022 |
| Read News Online | 48.2% | #30/75 | 2024 |
🫀 Health
🎓 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 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 41.6 | #117/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 90.8% | #19/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 38.9 | #140/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 9.1% | #20/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 2.1 | #58/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 52.7 | #1/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 21.5 | #33/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 70.9% | #1/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 82.4% | #95/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 58.5% | #27/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 10.7 | #32/193 | 2026 |
| 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 | 17.4 | #32/193 | 2026 |
| 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 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 6.7 | #3/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Masculinity | 40 | #49/65 | 2010 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 62.5% | #10/20 | 2025–2026 |
| 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 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 82.2% | #3/54 | 2011–2024 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.