World population/El Salvador
North America
Population of El Salvador
6,391,255
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#113
world rank
0.08%
of world population
+0.39%
yearly change
+25,189
people this year
96,922
births a year
48,104
deaths a year
How the figure for El Salvador is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of El Salvador at 6,391,255 on 1 July 2026, and projects 6,416,444 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places El Salvador at number 113 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.08 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 41 entries in North America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 96,922 births and 48,104 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.
Other countries in North America
Ranked by population.