El Salvador poverty rate for 2022 was 27.50%, a 0.9% decline from 2021.
El Salvador poverty rate for 2021 was 28.40%, a 0.4% decline from 2019.
El Salvador poverty rate for 2019 was 28.80%, a 4.2% decline from 2018.
El Salvador poverty rate for 2018 was 33.00%, a 3.3% decline from 2017.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international 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.