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El Salvador — GDP per capita
GDP per Capita (Nominal) for El Salvador, 1965–2025.
Latest value · 2025
5,767
GDP per Capita (Nominal) · current US$ · +2002.1% since 1965
GDP per capita for El Salvador was 5,767 in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 61 years, from 1965 to 2025. The latest year is also the highest value on record for this series. The lowest was 274 in 1965 (about 21.0× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 5.21% per year.
El Salvador ranks 134 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 63%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 13,889, so El Salvador sits below it. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 52%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
5,767
First (1965)
274
Change
+2002.1%
Highest
5,767
in 2025
Lowest
274
in 1965
Average
1,972
Annual growth (CAGR)
5.21%
Years of data
61
Recent years
| Year | current US$ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 5,766.73 |
| 2024 | 5,503.1 |
| 2023 | 5,319.72 |
| 2022 | 5,074.6 |
| 2021 | 4,642.61 |
| 2020 | 3,997.19 |
| 2019 | 4,320.12 |
| 2018 | 4,183.55 |
| 2017 | 4,020.13 |
| 2016 | 3,901.34 |
| 2015 | 3,790.34 |
| 2014 | 3,666.01 |
Reading this correctly. Nominal GDP divided by midyear population. A rough proxy for average income; it does not account for income distribution. Figures are in current US$. 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.PCAP.CD — GDP per Capita (Nominal). 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.