Countries / El Salvador
El Salvador
MediumRanked #132 of 195 in 2023 · Latin America and the Caribbean
Source: UNDP Human Development Report 2025 composite indices. All figures below come directly from that dataset — nothing here is estimated or AI-generated.
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0.678 in 2023, compared against the world and Latin America and the Caribbean average.
Components
72.1 yrs
Life expectancy
11.1 yrs
Expected schooling
7.3 yrs
Mean schooling
10,595
GNI per capita
Related indices
Inequality-adjusted HDI
0.555
HDI adjusted downward for inequality in the distribution of health, education, and income within the country — lower than HDI whenever inequality exists.
Gender Development Index
0.983
Ratio of female to male HDI — 1.0 means parity; below 1.0 means women's human development lags men's.
Gender Inequality Index
0.362
Reflects gender-based disadvantage in reproductive health, empowerment, and labour markets — 0 is parity, 1 is total inequality.
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI
0.638
HDI adjusted downward for a country's carbon emissions and material footprint — the gap from HDI shows the cost to planetary pressure.