Social indicators[1]
Population: 6.34M
GDP: USD 35.36B
Gini Index: 39.8
Population growth: 0.45 %/year
GDP per capita: USD 5,580 USD
Human Development Index: 0.687
Major disasters[2]
1986 - San Salvador Earthquake
1,100 Deaths
Loss 32.6% GDP
2001 - 2001 Earthquakes
1,159 Deaths
Loss 11.61% GDP
1998 - Mitch Hurricane
475 Deaths
Loss 3.29% GDP
Built environment (exposure)[3]
Replacement cost
Replacement cost (USD billions)
Residential
100.2
Commercial
18
Industrial
13.7
Total
131.9
Residential (76%)
Commercial (13.6%)
Industrial (10.4%)
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Historical loss exceedance curves[4]
General statistics
Catalog period:
1960 - 2015
Total reported losses:
$ 12,968M
Average annual losses:
$ 283M
Maximum individual loss:
$ 3,649M
Distribution by disaster type
Geophysical (56.7%)
Hydrological (26.7%)
Meteorological (15.5%)
Climatological (1.1%)
Other (0%)
Historical catalog
Historical Economic Loss Exceedance Curve
Hazard layers[5]
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References
1. World Development Indicators (2024). Washington DC. The World Bank. Available at: https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators 2. EM-DAT: The International Disaster Database EM-DAT. (2008) Available at: https://www.emdat.be/ 3. Country/Territory Seismic Risk Profiles of the GEM Foundation (2023), Available at: https://github.com/gem/risk-profiles/ 4. DesInventar Version 9.20.04 - 2020. Available at https://db.desinventar.org