El Salvador Overview: Development news, research, data | World Bank
Oct 18, 2024 · Thanks to major structural reforms and stable macroeconomic policies, El Salvador has seen poverty levels decline significantly since the 1990s. But high levels of crime and violence continue to threaten social development and economic growth.
Poverty in El Salvador: An Insight into the Poverty Rate!
Aug 9, 2024 · At the national level, EL Salvador’s poverty rate stands at 27.2%, with 18.4% of households living in relative poverty and 8.8% in extreme poverty. The country’s national poverty rate increased by 0.60 percentage points or 2.26% from 2022 to 2023.
Poverty and Inequality Platform - World Bank
Learn more about poverty, shared prosperity and inequality trends in El Salvador using the Poverty and Equity Brief. Poverty and Equity Briefs are two-page country summaries that provide an overview of recent developments in poverty reduction, along with the latest data of key development indicators.
El Salvador Poverty Rate 1989-2025 - Macrotrends
El Salvador poverty rate for 2022 was 27.50%, a 0.9% decline from 2021. El Salvador poverty rate for 2021 was 28.40%, a 0.4% decline from 2019. El Salvador poverty rate for 2019 was 28.80%, a 4.2% decline from 2018. El Salvador poverty rate for 2018 was 33.00%, a …
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El Salvador
El Salvador has experienced a significant decline in national poverty, with an accelerating reduction since 2014. Most of the reduction is driven by rural areas, which have seen significant poverty declines.
Extreme Poverty Rises in El Salvador — Sube la pobreza extrema en El ...
Nov 24, 2023 · According to ECLAC data, from 2014 to 2019, the poverty rate in El Salvador decreased by 10 points, from 44.6% to 30.4%. In the case of extreme poverty, the fall was more than 5 points, from 11.7% in 2014 to 5.6% in 2019.
An opportunity to reduce poverty and inequality in El Salvador
Dec 10, 2024 · El Salvador faces a great opportunity to accelerate poverty reduction. Although poverty rates have dropped significantly over the past two decades, extreme poverty remains a challenge: by 2023, around 600,000 Salvadorans, approximately 9.3% of the country's population, remained in this difficult situation .
El Salvador | Data
The index measures the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18, given the risks of poor health and poor education that prevail in the country where she lives.
Macro Poverty Outlook for El Salvador : April 2024 Datasheet
El Salvador is projected to experience an average growth of 2.5 percent from 2024 to 2026, influenced by a US slowdown affecting remittances and tourism. In 2024, .
El Salvador’s GDP rebounded in 2021, largely fueled by remitances. Growth prospects are threatened by high debt and financing needs, slow progress on produc-tivity-enhancing reforms, and policy un-certainty. Poverty is not estimated to re-turn to its pre-pandemic levels in 2021.