El Salvador Poverty Rate

El Salvador poverty rate for 2023 was 29.90%, a 2.8% decline from 2022.
  • El Salvador poverty rate for 2022 was 32.70%, a 0.8% decline from 2021.
  • El Salvador poverty rate for 2021 was 33.50%, a 1.2% decline from 2019.
  • El Salvador poverty rate for 2019 was 34.70%, a 4.4% decline from 2018.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.