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El Salvador — Labor participation
Labor Force Participation Rate for El Salvador, 1990–2025.
Latest value · 2025
62.11%
Labor Force Participation Rate · % of population ages 15+ · +0.9% since 1990
Labor participation for El Salvador was 62.11% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 36 years, from 1990 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 63.40% in 1994. The lowest was 56.52% in 2020 (about 1.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.03% per year.
El Salvador ranks 89 of 187 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 48%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 63.14%, so El Salvador sits below it. It peaked in 1994 and has fallen 2% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 6%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
62.11%
First (1990)
61.56%
Change
+0.9%
Highest
63.40%
in 1994
Lowest
56.52%
in 2020
Average
60.69%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.03%
Years of data
36
Recent years
| Year | % of population ages 15+ |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.11% |
| 2024 | 61.92% |
| 2023 | 61.56% |
| 2022 | 60.08% |
| 2021 | 59.17% |
| 2020 | 56.52% |
| 2019 | 59.89% |
| 2018 | 58.73% |
| 2017 | 59.01% |
| 2016 | 59.26% |
| 2015 | 58.69% |
| 2014 | 59.4% |
Reading this correctly. Proportion of the population aged 15 and above that is economically active: supplying labor for the production of goods and services. Figures are in % of population ages 15+. 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
SL.TLF.CACT.ZS — Labor Force Participation Rate. 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.