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Population in El Salvador compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of El Salvador was 6,338,193 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current El Salvador's population is 6,386,184 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 9.21 times bigger than El Salvador's.
  • El Salvador is ranked the 112th most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.79% of the world: 0.08% for El Salvador vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, El Salvador has had an average growth rate of +0.29% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of El Salvador has increased from 6.01M people to 6.39M (6.34% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • El Salvador is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 6.67M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

El Salvador vs Italy: live population counter

El Salvador Italy
Current population
6386184
58790597
Population rank 112/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 0.71%
One net population change
18.4 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
5.29 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
11.1 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
22.8 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -23,102 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +78 -20
Annual growth/decline +28,569 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +0.45% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 140/197 166/197

El Salvador and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

El Salvador
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
El Salvador Italy El Salvador Italy
1960 2,791,459 50,199,700 - -
1961 2,870,016 50,536,350 2.81% 0.67%
1962 2,949,204 50,879,450 2.76% 0.68%
1963 3,028,679 51,252,000 2.69% 0.73%
1964 3,111,883 51,675,350 2.75% 0.83%
1965 3,199,466 52,112,350 2.81% 0.85%
1966 3,290,961 52,519,000 2.86% 0.78%
1967 3,385,184 52,900,500 2.86% 0.73%
1968 3,480,773 53,235,750 2.82% 0.63%
1969 3,576,485 53,537,950 2.75% 0.57%
1970 3,668,796 53,821,850 2.58% 0.53%
1971 3,757,523 54,073,490 2.42% 0.47%
1972 3,846,830 54,381,345 2.38% 0.57%
1973 3,938,068 54,751,406 2.37% 0.68%
1974 4,029,671 55,110,868 2.33% 0.66%
1975 4,120,449 55,441,001 2.25% 0.6%
1976 4,210,310 55,718,260 2.18% 0.5%
1977 4,301,256 55,955,411 2.16% 0.43%
1978 4,394,114 56,155,143 2.16% 0.36%
1979 4,480,388 56,317,749 1.96% 0.29%
1980 4,540,382 56,433,883 1.34% 0.21%
1981 4,570,599 56,501,675 0.67% 0.12%
1982 4,622,477 56,543,548 1.14% 0.07%
1983 4,707,367 56,564,074 1.84% 0.04%
1984 4,798,003 56,576,718 1.93% 0.02%
1985 4,894,706 56,593,071 2.02% 0.03%
1986 4,992,769 56,596,155 2% 0.005%
1987 5,092,441 56,601,931 2% 0.01%
1988 5,195,833 56,629,288 2.03% 0.05%
1989 5,298,979 56,671,781 1.99% 0.08%
1990 5,399,726 56,719,240 1.9% 0.08%
1991 5,495,077 56,758,521 1.77% 0.07%
1992 5,585,609 56,797,087 1.65% 0.07%
1993 5,659,957 56,831,821 1.33% 0.06%
1994 5,714,129 56,843,400 0.96% 0.02%
1995 5,762,131 56,844,303 0.84% 0.002%
1996 5,805,286 56,860,281 0.75% 0.03%
1997 5,844,578 56,890,372 0.68% 0.05%
1998 5,880,781 56,906,744 0.62% 0.03%
1999 5,913,900 56,916,317 0.56% 0.02%
2000 5,943,366 56,942,108 0.5% 0.05%
2001 5,968,060 56,976,981 0.42% 0.06%
2002 5,986,631 57,089,824 0.31% 0.2%
2003 5,998,599 57,399,184 0.2% 0.54%
2004 6,004,671 57,828,179 0.1% 0.75%
2005 6,005,578 58,166,682 0.02% 0.59%
2006 6,002,319 58,399,861 -0.05% 0.4%
2007 6,009,824 58,756,247 0.13% 0.61%
2008 6,029,297 59,211,181 0.32% 0.77%
2009 6,048,279 59,555,454 0.31% 0.58%
2010 6,068,249 59,819,407 0.33% 0.44%
2011 6,090,127 60,026,841 0.36% 0.35%
2012 6,113,975 60,191,247 0.39% 0.27%
2013 6,138,839 60,311,613 0.41% 0.2%
2014 6,162,955 60,320,707 0.39% 0.02%
2015 6,183,676 60,229,605 0.34% -0.15%
2016 6,200,800 60,115,223 0.28% -0.19%
2017 6,213,533 60,002,252 0.21% -0.19%
2018 6,219,807 60,148,658 0.1% 0.24%
2019 6,222,318 59,729,081 0.04% -0.7%
2020 6,234,673 59,438,851 0.2% -0.49%
2021 6,255,782 59,133,173 0.34% -0.51%
2022 6,280,319 59,013,667 0.39% -0.2%
2023 6,309,624 58,993,475 0.47% -0.03%
2024 6,338,193 58,986,023 0.45% -0.01%
2025 6,365,499 58,790,597 0.43% -0.33%
2026 6,391,250 58,571,823 0.4% -0.37%
2027 6,416,437 58,335,864 0.39% -0.4%
2028 6,440,931 58,094,373 0.38% -0.41%
2029 6,464,413 57,851,042 0.36% -0.42%
2030 6,486,202 57,597,622 0.34% -0.44%
2031 6,506,399 57,333,277 0.31% -0.46%
2032 6,525,787 57,071,235 0.3% -0.46%
2033 6,544,657 56,812,747 0.29% -0.45%
2034 6,562,182 56,548,816 0.27% -0.46%
2035 6,578,179 56,279,536 0.24% -0.48%
2036 6,593,325 56,009,844 0.23% -0.48%
2037 6,607,014 55,737,477 0.21% -0.49%
2038 6,619,816 55,460,735 0.19% -0.5%
2039 6,631,169 55,177,508 0.17% -0.51%
2040 6,640,751 54,889,107 0.14% -0.52%
2041 6,649,288 54,601,628 0.13% -0.52%
2042 6,656,208 54,307,412 0.1% -0.54%
2043 6,661,886 53,997,106 0.09% -0.57%
2044 6,665,748 53,679,603 0.06% -0.59%
2045 6,668,028 53,357,669 0.03% -0.6%
2046 6,669,403 53,025,288 0.02% -0.62%
2047 6,669,832 52,680,150 0.006% -0.65%
2048 6,669,220 52,324,241 -0.009% -0.68%
2049 6,666,756 51,959,050 -0.04% -0.7%
2050 6,663,341 51,579,060 -0.05% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of El Salvador increased by 178,098 people (a 2.97% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, El Salvador gained 202,508 (a 3.27% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

El Salvador was ranked 102nd most populous country in 2005 and is 112th in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) El Salvador's population will grow by 4.34% to 6,663,341 people with a rank change from 112th to 116th. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

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