Poverty rate at national poverty lines in El Salvador

27.2% of people in El Salvador lived below the national poverty line in 2023.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2020 to 2023 Source: World Bank
El Salvador, 2023 27.2% % of population
Change from 2022 +0.6percentage points 2022: 26.6%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in El Salvador over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2020 to 2023
Period El Salvador
2023 27.2%
2022 26.6%
2021 24.6%
2020 26.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.6 percentage points from 26.6% in 2022.
  • Since 2020, when it was 26.2%, the figure has changed by +1.0 percentage points.

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Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2020 to 2023 for El Salvador
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources