El Salvador
- Capital
- San Salvador
- Population
- 6.2 m
- Area
- 21,041 km²
- Region
- Central America
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- United States dollar ($)
- Demonym
- Salvadoran
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the Pipil land of Cuzcatlan and the ash-buried Maya village of Joya de Ceren to independence from Spain in 1821, a coffee republic ruled by an oligarchy, the slaughter of 1932, the civil war of 1980 to 1992, and the gang crackdown of the Bukele era.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.