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El Salvador: Inflation

Percent · 1938–2025 · 88 observations · forecasts to 2031 · infl

2025
0.258%percent
Change on 2024
−0.6 pointsfrom 0.854%
Average, 2016–2025
1.82%10 years
Record high and low
31.9% (1986)low −11.5% (1938)

Inflation

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Recent values

Percent

YearValue
20311.80Forecast
20301.80Forecast
20291.80Forecast
20281.80Forecast
20272.00Forecast
20262.50Forecast
20250.258
20240.854
20234.05
20227.20
20213.47
2020-0.372
20190.074
20181.09
20171.01
20160.61

Sources

  • MOxLAD1938–2000
  • Mitchell1938–2009
  • Clio Infra1938–2010
  • Reinhart & Rogoff1938–2014
  • IMF International Financial Statistics1951–2025
  • World Development Indicators1960–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council (historical)1961–2017
  • World Bank (inflation)1970–2024
  • WDI (archive)1971–1997
  • IMF World Economic Outlook1981–2025
  • World Bank Global Economic Monitor1987–2025
  • Central American Monetary Council1991–2025
  • ECLAC1996–2019
  • IMF WEO (forecast)2025–2031

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El Salvador documentation (PDF)

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Please cite: Müller, K., Xu, C., Lehbib, M., & Chen, Z. (2025). The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset. NBER Working Paper 33714. BibTeX →

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