El Salvador: Poverty at 1.90 USD per day

The latest value from 2023 is 4.6 percent, a decline from 5.2 percent in 2022. In comparison, the world average is 2.78 percent, based on data from 57 countries. Historically, the average for El Salvador from 1989 to 2023 is 13.19 percent. The minimum value, 3 percent, was reached in 2019 while the maximum of 28.9 percent was recorded in 1991. See the global rankings for that indicator or use the country comparator to compare trends over time.

Definition: Poverty headcount ratio at $3.00 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $3.00 a day at 2021 purchasing power adjusted 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.