El Salvador
Key facts
- currency: U.S. dollar
- capital city: San Salvador
- region: Central America
- continent: Americas
- land area: 20,720 km²
- population: 6,309,624 people
- political leader: Nayib Bukele (President)
Classified as: place
Location on a map: [13°83′N, -88°91′W]
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Summary
El Salvador is a country. The capital city is San Salvador, located in the Central America region of Americas. It has a land area of 20,720 km², a population of 6,309,624 people and uses the currency U.S. dollar. The President is Nayib Bukele.
Environment
El Salvador is one of the countries in Americas, countries in Central America and 194 countries in our database.
- Agricultural land: 11,957.00 km²
- Alternative and nuclear energy: 6.31 % of total energy use
- Carbon dioxide emissions (co2): 7.97 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Access to electricity: 100.00 % of population
- Electricity production from coal sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from natural gas sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from hydroelectric sources: 22.59 % of total
- Electricity production from nuclear sources: 0.00 % of total
- Electricity production from oil sources: 42.18 % of total
- Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric: 35.23 % of total
- Net energy imports: 49.24 % of energy use
- Fertility rate: 1.78 births per woman
- Forest area: 5,748 km²
- Fossil fuel energy consumption: 48.43 % of total
- Greenhouse gas emissions (co2, ch4, n2o, hfcs, pfcs, sf6): 13.07 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Median age: 23.00
- Methane emissions: 3.54 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Nitrous oxide emissions: 1.14 Mt of CO2 equivalent
- Female population: 3,312,439 people
- Male population: 2,997,185 people
- Renewable energy consumption: 21.90 % of total final energy consumption
- Rural land area: 18,676.37 km²
- Rural population: 1,552,609 people
- Urban land area: 1,559.87 km²
- Urban population: 4,757,015 people
- Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters : 0.26 % of total population
Geographical distribution of cities in El Salvador by population
Cities in El Salvador
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Geographical distribution of sites in El Salvador by area
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Evolution of historical urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters in El Salvador
Relationship between population and date in El Salvador
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gas emissions (CO2, CH4, N2O, HFCs, PFCs, SF6) in El Salvador
Evolution of historical agricultural land in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical alternative and nuclear energy in El Salvador
Evolution of historical carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) in El Salvador
Relationship between carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and GDP in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical access to electricity in El Salvador
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Sites in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical electricity production from coal sources in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical electricity production from oil sources in El Salvador
Evolution of historical electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric, in El Salvador
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Relationship between fertility rate and life expectancy at birth in El Salvador
Proportion of transboundary sites in El Salvador
Geographical distribution of wildfires in El Salvador by mean width
Wildfires in El Salvador
Relationship between mean length and mean width of wildfires in El Salvador
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Politics
- Armed forces personnel: 42,000 people
- Democracy score: 5.96
- Democracy type: Hybrid regime
- Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence: 49,000 people
- Individuals using the internet: 62.89 % of population
- Military expenditure: 1.32 % of GDP
- Net migration: -23,253 people
- Press freedom: 2.62
- Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments: 27.38 %
Evolution of historical armed forces personnel in El Salvador
Relationship between armed forces personnel and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence in El Salvador
Evolution of historical individuals using the Internet in El Salvador
Evolution of historical military expenditure in El Salvador
Evolution of historical net migration in El Salvador
Evolution of the historical proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments in El Salvador
Political parties in El Salvador
Distribution of politicians from El Salvador by birth year
Proportion of politicians per gender in El Salvador
Politicians from El Salvador
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Business
- Central government debt: 101.70 % of GDP
- Expense: 27.55 % of GDP
- Gdp: 34,015,620,000.00 current US$
- Inflation: 4.05 annual %
- Self-employed workers: 36.53 % of total employment
- Tax revenue: 20.61 % of GDP
- Unemployment: 2.76 % of total labor force
- Vulnerable employment: 32.07 % of total employment
Shops in El Salvador
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Companies from El Salvador
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Distribution of companies founded in El Salvador by year
Proportion of revenue types by company in El Salvador
Evolution of historical central government debt in El Salvador
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Relationship between GDP and other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 in El Salvador
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Exchanges in El Salvador
Proportion of shops per country in El Salvador
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Health
- Birth rate: 15.80 per 1,000 people
- Death rate: 8.17 per 1,000 people
- Health expenditure per capita: 442.21 current US$
- Health expenditure: 9.72 % of GDP
- Incidence of hiv: 0.13 per 1,000 uninfected population
- Hospital beds: 1.16 per 1,000 people
- Life expectancy at birth: 71
- Suicide mortality rate: 6.10 per 100,000 population
Evolution of historical birth rate in El Salvador
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Evolution of historical life expectancy at birth in El Salvador
Relationship between life expectancy and the proportion of self-employed workers in El Salvador
Relationship between life expectancy and vulnerable employment in El Salvador
Evolution of historical suicide mortality rate in El Salvador
Diseases in El Salvador
Distribution of diseases by first founded year in El Salvador
Proportion of diseases in El Salvador by mortality rate
Distribution of diseases in El Salvador by start date
Evolution of historical cases in El Salvador
Evolution of historical deaths in El Salvador
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Sports
Distribution of athletes from El Salvador by birth year
Proportion of athletes per gender in El Salvador
Athletes from El Salvador
Proportion of competitions per city in El Salvador
Competitions in El Salvador
Proportion of competitions per country in El Salvador
Distribution of competitions in El Salvador by start date
Proportion of medals won by El Salvador in the Olympics
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Culture
Artists from El Salvador
Distribution of artists from El Salvador by birth year
Proportion of artists per gender in El Salvador
Geographical distribution of museums in El Salvador by visitors
Museums in El Salvador
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Research
Geographical distribution of universities in El Salvador by total students
Distribution of universities in El Salvador per foundation year
Universities in El Salvador
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In literature
There are 137 books written about El Salvador in the database
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This dashboard is based on data from: SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
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