El Salvador
Capital: San Salvador · Upper middle income · Pop. 6.3 million
Source: World Bank Open Data (WHO/UNICEF JMP & FAO AQUASTAT)
Sanitation tracks closely: 35.97% use safely managed sanitation services and 88.04% have at least a basic service (2024).
El Salvador has about 2,489 cubic meters of renewable internal freshwater per person each year. It withdraws the equivalent of 12% of those internal resources annually (low-medium water stress).
Agriculture accounts for about 73% of El Salvador's water withdrawals, the rest going to households and industry.
Common questions
How many people in El Salvador have safe drinking water?
Comprehensive safely-managed drinking-water data is not available for El Salvador; basic-service estimates may exist.
Does El Salvador have enough freshwater?
El Salvador has roughly 2,489 m³ of renewable internal freshwater per person per year, and uses about 12% of it annually (low-medium stress).