El Salvador — Inflation
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) for El Salvador, 1960–2025.
Latest value · 2025
0.26%
Inflation, Consumer Prices (Annual %) · annual % · +760.9% since 1960
Inflation for El Salvador was 0.26% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 66 years, from 1960 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 31.94% in 1986. The lowest was -2.68% in 1961 (about -10.4× the latest value).
El Salvador ranks 170 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 91%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 2.53%, so El Salvador sits below it. It peaked in 1986 and has fallen 99% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 135%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
0.26%
First (1960)
-0.04%
Change
+760.9%
Highest
31.94%
in 1986
Lowest
-2.68%
in 1961
Average
6.84%
Annual growth (CAGR)
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Years of data
66
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 0.26% |
| 2024 | 0.85% |
| 2023 | 4.05% |
| 2022 | 7.2% |
| 2021 | 3.47% |
| 2020 | -0.37% |
| 2019 | 0.08% |
| 2018 | 1.09% |
| 2017 | 1.01% |
| 2016 | 0.6% |
| 2015 | -0.73% |
| 2014 | 1.14% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage change in the cost to the average consumer of acquiring a basket of goods and services. A negative value means deflation. 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
FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG — Inflation, Consumer Prices (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.