El Salvador
Republic of El Salvador
- Region
- Americas · Central America
- Capital
- San Salvador
- Population
- 6,365,503 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish (official), Nawat (among some indigenous)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 21,041 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Guatemala , Honduras
Political stability
66 / 100
Economic stability
50 / 100
Population stability
48 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- garments, plastic products, electrical capacitors, raw sugar, toilet paper (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, natural gas, garments, packaged medicine, plastics (2023)
- Natural resources
- hydropower, geothermal power, petroleum, arable land
- Primary route
- Panama Canal and U.S. Gulf corridors
- Secondary route
- Pacific coast services to Asia and South America
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.