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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of El Salvador was 6,338,193 in 2024 vs 23,410,331 people in Taiwan in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current El Salvador's population is 6,386,184 people compared to 23,308,308 in Taiwan.

Population statistics:

  • Taiwan's population is 3.65 times bigger than El Salvador's.
  • El Salvador is ranked the 112th most populous country in the world, while Taiwan is the 60th.
  • The countries together account for 0.36% of the world: 0.08% for El Salvador vs 0.28% for Taiwan.
  • For the last 10 years, El Salvador has had an average growth rate of +0.29% per year vs +0.03% in Taiwan.
  • Since 2005, the population of El Salvador has increased from 6.01M people to 6.39M (6.34% growth), while Taiwan has grown from 22.7M to 23.3M (2.55% growth).
  • El Salvador is projected to reach its peak in 2047 at 6.67M people, while Taiwan's population already peaked in 2019 at 23.6M people and is projected to decrease to 10.1M people by 2100.

El Salvador vs Taiwan: live population counter

El Salvador Taiwan
Current population
6386184
23308308
Population rank 112/197 60/197
Percent of world population 0.08% 0.28%
One net population change
18.4 minutes
7.75 minutes
One birth every
5.29 minutes
3.9 minutes
One death every
11.1 minutes
2.6 minutes
One migration net change every
22.8 minutes
11.2 minutes
Annual migration change -23,102 +47,029
Daily growth/decline +78 +186
Annual growth/decline +28,569 +67,790
Annual growth/decline rate +0.45% +0.29%
Population growth rate rank 140/197 150/197

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

El Salvador
Population

Growth rate
Taiwan
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
El Salvador Taiwan El Salvador Taiwan
1960 2,791,459 - - -
1961 2,870,016 11,030,385 2.81% -
1962 2,949,204 11,392,513 2.76% 3.28%
1963 3,028,679 11,762,101 2.69% 3.24%
1964 3,111,883 12,137,143 2.75% 3.19%
1965 3,199,466 12,511,863 2.81% 3.09%
1966 3,290,961 12,874,153 2.86% 2.9%
1967 3,385,184 13,210,344 2.86% 2.61%
1968 3,480,773 13,548,537 2.82% 2.56%
1969 3,576,485 14,068,984 2.75% 3.84%
1970 3,668,796 14,582,944 2.58% 3.65%
1971 3,757,523 14,913,564 2.42% 2.27%
1972 3,846,830 15,220,495 2.38% 2.06%
1973 3,938,068 15,505,121 2.37% 1.87%
1974 4,029,671 15,784,817 2.33% 1.8%
1975 4,120,449 16,075,128 2.25% 1.84%
1976 4,210,310 16,401,413 2.18% 2.03%
1977 4,301,256 16,730,895 2.16% 2.01%
1978 4,394,114 17,042,272 2.16% 1.86%
1979 4,480,388 17,372,779 1.96% 1.94%
1980 4,540,382 17,704,538 1.34% 1.91%
1981 4,570,599 18,029,982 0.67% 1.84%
1982 4,622,477 18,354,855 1.14% 1.8%
1983 4,707,367 18,653,146 1.84% 1.63%
1984 4,798,003 18,929,866 1.93% 1.48%
1985 4,894,706 19,191,510 2.02% 1.38%
1986 4,992,769 19,411,454 2% 1.15%
1987 5,092,441 19,617,046 2% 1.06%
1988 5,195,833 19,839,704 2.03% 1.14%
1989 5,298,979 20,055,492 1.99% 1.09%
1990 5,399,726 20,278,946 1.9% 1.11%
1991 5,495,077 20,503,568 1.77% 1.11%
1992 5,585,609 20,704,227 1.65% 0.98%
1993 5,659,957 20,899,019 1.33% 0.94%
1994 5,714,129 21,086,645 0.96% 0.9%
1995 5,762,131 21,267,653 0.84% 0.86%
1996 5,805,286 21,441,432 0.75% 0.82%
1997 5,844,578 21,634,124 0.68% 0.9%
1998 5,880,781 21,835,703 0.62% 0.93%
1999 5,913,900 22,010,489 0.56% 0.8%
2000 5,943,366 22,184,530 0.5% 0.79%
2001 5,968,060 22,341,120 0.42% 0.71%
2002 5,986,631 22,463,172 0.31% 0.55%
2003 5,998,599 22,562,663 0.2% 0.44%
2004 6,004,671 22,646,836 0.1% 0.37%
2005 6,005,578 22,729,753 0.02% 0.37%
2006 6,002,319 22,823,455 -0.05% 0.41%
2007 6,009,824 22,917,444 0.13% 0.41%
2008 6,029,297 22,997,696 0.32% 0.35%
2009 6,048,279 23,078,402 0.31% 0.35%
2010 6,068,249 23,140,948 0.33% 0.27%
2011 6,090,127 23,193,518 0.36% 0.23%
2012 6,113,975 23,270,367 0.39% 0.33%
2013 6,138,839 23,344,670 0.41% 0.32%
2014 6,162,955 23,403,635 0.39% 0.25%
2015 6,183,676 23,462,914 0.34% 0.25%
2016 6,200,800 23,515,945 0.28% 0.23%
2017 6,213,533 23,555,522 0.21% 0.17%
2018 6,219,807 23,580,080 0.1% 0.1%
2019 6,222,318 23,596,027 0.04% 0.07%
2020 6,234,673 23,582,179 0.2% -0.06%
2021 6,255,782 23,468,275 0.34% -0.48%
2022 6,280,319 23,319,977 0.39% -0.63%
2023 6,309,624 23,342,541 0.47% 0.1%
2024 6,338,193 23,410,331 0.45% 0.29%
2025 6,365,499 23,308,308 0.43% -0.44%
2026 6,391,250 23,205,944 0.4% -0.44%
2027 6,416,437 23,102,120 0.39% -0.45%
2028 6,440,931 22,996,693 0.38% -0.46%
2029 6,464,413 22,890,335 0.36% -0.46%
2030 6,486,202 22,781,040 0.34% -0.48%
2031 6,506,399 22,667,327 0.31% -0.5%
2032 6,525,787 22,549,689 0.3% -0.52%
2033 6,544,657 22,428,721 0.29% -0.54%
2034 6,562,182 22,302,402 0.27% -0.56%
2035 6,578,179 22,170,689 0.24% -0.59%
2036 6,593,325 22,034,775 0.23% -0.61%
2037 6,607,014 21,893,029 0.21% -0.64%
2038 6,619,816 21,746,001 0.19% -0.67%
2039 6,631,169 21,594,236 0.17% -0.7%
2040 6,640,751 21,436,947 0.14% -0.73%
2041 6,649,288 21,274,187 0.13% -0.76%
2042 6,656,208 21,105,682 0.1% -0.79%
2043 6,661,886 20,932,105 0.09% -0.82%
2044 6,665,748 20,754,623 0.06% -0.85%
2045 6,668,028 20,571,741 0.03% -0.88%
2046 6,669,403 20,384,903 0.02% -0.91%
2047 6,669,832 20,194,425 0.006% -0.93%
2048 6,669,220 19,999,753 -0.009% -0.96%
2049 6,666,756 19,801,293 -0.04% -0.99%
2050 6,663,341 19,598,997 -0.05% -1.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of El Salvador increased by 178,098 people (a 2.97% growth), while Taiwan gained 733,161 people (a 3.23% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, El Salvador gained 202,508 (a 3.27% growth), while Taiwan's population decreased by -154,606 (a 0.66% decline).

El Salvador was ranked 102nd most populous country in 2005 and is 112th in 2025. Taiwan was ranked 48th in 2005 and ranked 60th 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 Taiwan will decrease by 15.9% to 19,598,997 people and rank change from 60th to 76th.

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