🇸🇻El Salvador

San Salvador

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Population

6.4M

0.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.77

births/woman

Life Expectancy

72.3y

GDP / capita

$5.8K

Pop. Growth

0.43%

Net Migration

-23.9K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in El Salvador by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇭🇳Honduras12K(27.9%)

+8%

🇬🇹Guatemala9.2K(21.2%)

+7%

🇳🇮

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male3MTotal 6.4M3.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

7.9

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇺🇸United States5.6K(12.9%)

+7%

🇲🇽Mexico1.8K(4.1%)

+7%

🇨🇷Costa Rica901(2.1%)

+7%

🇨🇴Colombia593(1.4%)

+7%

🇪🇸Spain549(1.3%)

+7%

🇵🇦Panama464(1.1%)

+7%

🇧🇿Belize349(0.8%)

+7%

🇮🇹Italy289(0.7%)

+7%

🇨🇳China266(0.6%)

+7%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the El Salvador diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in El Salvador who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States1.6M(85.6%)

+28%

🇲🇽Mexico55.4K(3.0%)

+557%

🇨🇦Canada49K(2.7%)

+10%

🇪🇸Spain42.2K(2.3%)

+469%

🇮🇹Italy24.5K(1.3%)

+179%

🇬🇹Guatemala22.8K(1.2%)

+36%

🇨🇷Costa Rica20.1K(1.1%)

+47%

🇧🇿Belize11.1K(0.6%)

+48%

🇦🇺Australia10.9K(0.6%)

−0%

🇭🇳Honduras9.2K(0.5%)

+47%

🇵🇦Panama6.3K(0.3%)

+130%

🇧🇪Belgium3K(0.2%)

+651%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024