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El Salvador

6,365,503

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+27.31K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+7.1%from 5.94M
Life expectancy72.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.77births per woman · 2024
Urban population75.5%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

UN medium projection

What could El Salvador look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 6.66M in 2050—5.1% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20246.34M
  2. 20506.66M
  3. 21005.07M
Median age in 205038.9years
Births in 205071.79Kduring the year
Deaths in 205060.23Kduring the year
Life expectancy77.5years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.79M
  2. 19703.67M
  3. 19804.54M
  4. 19905.4M
  5. 20005.94M
  6. 20106.07M
  7. 20206.23M
  8. 20256.37M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryValidated dataChecked 11/8/2026

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