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El Salvador — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for El Salvador, 1966–2025.
Latest value · 2025
3.91%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -45.5% since 1966
GDP growth for El Salvador was 3.91% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 60 years, from 1966 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 11.90% in 2021. The lowest was -15.84% in 1980 (about -4.1× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -1.02% per year.
El Salvador ranks 81 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 38%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 3.38%, so El Salvador sits above it. It peaked in 2021 and has fallen 67% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 63%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
3.91%
First (1966)
7.16%
Change
-45.5%
Highest
11.90%
in 2021
Lowest
-15.84%
in 1980
Average
2.22%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-1.02%
Years of data
60
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 3.91% |
| 2024 | 2.59% |
| 2023 | 3.36% |
| 2022 | 2.95% |
| 2021 | 11.9% |
| 2020 | -7.89% |
| 2019 | 2.44% |
| 2018 | 2.41% |
| 2017 | 2.25% |
| 2016 | 2.54% |
| 2015 | 2.4% |
| 2014 | 1.71% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.