Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in El Salvador: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we explore the statistics of human lives through the lens of economic output. For El Salvador, average yearly economic output per person, adjusted for purchasing power in 2017 international dollars, tells a profound story about daily existence. Every recorded value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking how human productivity has shifted across three centuries. Behind these figures lie the physical realities of sustenance, labor, and survival that defined generations of Salvadorans navigating an evolving world.

The long arc of this metric reveals a steady, unbroken climb from the dawn of the nineteenth century into the distant future. In the 1800s estimate, the figure stood at 1,000 intl-$, ticking upward decade by decade through the 1810s estimate 1,070, the 1820s estimate 1,140, the 1830s estimate 1,210, the 1840s estimate 1,280, the 1850s estimate 1,350, the 1860s estimate 1,420, the 1870s estimate 1,490, the 1880s estimate 1,560, and the 1890s estimate 1,630. By 1900 it was 1,700 intl-$, matching the 1900s estimate 1,700. Growth continued through the 1910s estimate 2,160, the 1920s estimate 2,620, the 1930s estimate 3,080, the 1940s estimate 3,540, the 1950s 4,000, the 1960s 5,667, the 1970s 7,333, the 1980s 9,000, the 1990s 10,000, the 2000s 11,000, and the 2010s 12,750.

In the 2020s, income per person (gdp per capita, ppp) in El Salvador stands at 14,500 intl-$ — ranking #94 of 157 countries according to World Bank and Maddison Project data compiled by MYRIAD. Looking ahead, projections stretch through the 2030s projection 16,675, the 2040s projection 19,176, the 2050s projection 22,053, the 2060s projection 25,361, the 2070s projection 29,165, the 2080s projection 33,539, the 2090s projection 38,570, up to the 2100s projection 44,356. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →