El Salvador
Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population)
National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.
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Analytical takeaways
- El Salvador records 27 for Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) in 2023, ranking #11 globally out of 40 countries.
- Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of population) increased from 26 in 2020 to 27 in 2023, a gain of 1.
- The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.
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