NLAID - Activity in El Salvador

Information on El Salvador

Birth rate 17.75 births/1,000 population (2011 est.)

Children under the age of 5 years underweight 6.1% (2003) country comparison to the world: 77

Climate tropical; rainy season (May to October); dry season (November to April); tropical on coast; temperate in uplands

Death rate 5.62 deaths/1,000 population (July 2011 est.)

Environment - current issues deforestation; soil erosion; water pollution; contamination of soils from disposal of toxic wastes

Infant mortality rate
total 20.3 deaths/1,000 live births
male 22.36 deaths/1,000 live births
female 18.15 deaths/1,000 live births (2011 est.)

Languages Spanish (official), Nahua (among some Amerindians)

Life expectancy at birth
total population 73.44 years
male 70.16 years
female 76.87 years (2011 est.)

Literacy
definition age 15 and over can read and write
total population 81.1%
male 82.8%
female 79.6% (2007 census)

Maternal mortality rate 110 deaths/100,000 live births (2008) country comparison to the world: 67

Natural resources hydropower, geothermal power, petroleum, arable land

Population
6,071,774 (July 2011 est.)

Population growth rate 0.318% (2011 est.)

Religions Roman Catholic 57.1%, Protestant 21.2%, Jehovah's Witnesses 1.9%, Mormon 0.7%, other religions 2.3%, none 16.8% (2003 est.)

School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education)
total 12 years
male 12 years
female 12 years (2008)

MM.RR. en veiligheid op gemeenteniveau

Project code NL-1-PPR-17969

Kennisverbetering over Hoge Raad en MM.RR. door steun aan interne school

Project code NL-1-PPR-19357