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Society profile

El Salvador

El Salvador: 46 indicators from open sources, newest value for each.

Demography

Population, total 6.4 MWorld Bank2025 Population aged 0-14 24.4%World Bank2025 Population aged 15-64 67.3%World Bank2025 Population aged 65+ 8.3%World Bank2025 Female share of population 52.5%World Bank2025 Urban population 75.5%World Bank2025 Fertility rate 1.8World Bank2024 Adolescent fertility rate 53.5World Bank2024 Life expectancy at birth 72.3yearsWorld Bank2024 Infant mortality 8.8‰World Bank2024 Net migration -23 934World Bank2025

Education

Adult literacy rate 89.8%World Bank2024 Secondary school enrolment 62.1%World Bank2024 Tertiary enrolment 32.8%World Bank2024 Education spending 3.3%World Bank2024

Income

GDP per capita, PPP $14 101$World Bank2025 GNI per capita, PPP $13 140$World Bank2025 Gini index 39.8World Bank2023 Poverty headcount at $2.15/day 4.6%World Bank2023 Income share held by richest 10% 29.7%World Bank2023

Health

Suicide rate 7.6per 100kWorld Bank2021 Health spending 9.3%World Bank2023

Connectivity

Individuals using the internet 66.5%World Bank2024 Mobile subscriptions 176.5per 100World Bank2024 Access to electricity 98.7%World Bank2024

Environment

CO2 emissions per capita 1.5tWorld Bank2024

Religiosity

Religion is very important in life survey68.9%Latinobarometro2024

Trust People

Most people can be trusted survey16.1%Latinobarometro2024

Trust Institutions

Confidence in the government survey66.1%Latinobarometro2024 Confidence in parliament survey42.8%Latinobarometro2024 Confidence in the police survey65.4%Latinobarometro2024 Confidence in the courts survey53.4%Latinobarometro2024 Confidence in the press survey35.6%Latinobarometro2024

Gender Roles

Women in national parliament 31.7%World Bank2025

Democracy

It is important to live in a democracy survey53.5%Latinobarometro2024 Satisfied with how democracy works survey64.0%Latinobarometro2024

Immigration Attitudes

Would not want immigrants as neighbours survey6.6%Latinobarometro2024

Employment

Unemployment rate 3.3%World Bank2025 Youth unemployment rate 7.8%World Bank2025 Female labour force participation 49.1%World Bank2025 Male labour force participation 77.3%World Bank2025 Self-employed share 35.7%World Bank2025

Safety

Intentional homicides 7.9per 100kWorld Bank2022 Feels safe walking alone at night survey37.9%UN SDG2019

Tolerance

Homosexuality is justifiable survey76.2%Latinobarometro2024 Would not want people of another race as neighbours survey7.1%Latinobarometro2024

Socially closest countries

  1. Tajikistan78%
  2. Indonesia72%
  3. Singapore72%
  4. Uzbekistan71%
  5. Philippines70%
  6. Turkiye66%

Distance is computed on 11 value questions the two societies were both asked, standardised within each survey so that a different questionnaire does not pass for a different society. Similarity is relative to the widest distance in the world.

Every number carries its source and year. Where a country is missing, it is missing — we do not interpolate.