El Salvador
El Salvador in numbers — 19 World Bank indicators, each linking to its complete year-by-year history.
El Salvador recorded GDP per capita: 5,767 (2025), ranking 134 of 212 worldwide; Population: 6.37 million (2025), ranking 112 of 217 worldwide; Life expectancy: 72.3 (2024), ranking 135 of 217 worldwide; Inflation: 0.26% (2025), ranking 170 of 187 worldwide. The year in brackets is the reference year for that figure.
Measured across each series' full span, GDP shows the largest increase (+4082%) and Infant mortality the largest decrease (-94%). Every indicator below links to its complete year-by-year series.
Across the measures below it sits below the world median on most of them. Measured against the median of every economy covered here, 4 of 19 comparable series are higher and 15 are lower.
Its population of 6.37 million (2025) makes it a smaller population by the standards of this dataset.
All 19 series on this page carry a value for 2023 or later.
Indicators
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GDP | 36,708,110,000 | 2025 | +4082.2% |
| GDP per capita | 5,766.73 | 2025 | +2002.1% |
| GDP growth | 3.91% | 2025 | -45.5% |
| Population | 6,365,503 | 2025 | +128.0% |
| Population growth | 0.43% | 2025 | -84.5% |
| Urban population | 75.52% | 2025 | +96.8% |
| Inflation | 0.26% | 2025 | +760.9% |
| Life expectancy | 72.3 | 2024 | +49.7% |
| Infant mortality | 8.8 | 2024 | -93.5% |
| CO2 per capita | 1.51 | 2024 | +244.8% |
| GDP (PPP) | 89,761,087,564.75 | 2025 | +482.2% |
| GDP per capita (PPP) | 14,101.18 | 2025 | +393.8% |
| Labor participation | 62.11% | 2025 | +0.9% |
| Unemployment | 3.3% | 2025 | -56.1% |
| Electricity access | 98.7% | 2024 | +41.8% |
| Internet users | 66.48% | 2024 | — |
| Education spending | 3.32% | 2024 | +266.7% |
| Forest area | 27.53% | 2023 | -20.7% |
| Health spending | 9.29% | 2023 | +18.4% |