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El Salvador: Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

Percent of GDP · 1950–2025 · 76 observations · forecasts to 2031 · inv_GDP

2025
26.6%percent of GDP
Change on 2024
+6.3 pointsfrom 20.3%
Average, 2016–2025
20.2%10 years
Record high and low
26.6% (2025)low 10.8% (1985)

Gross capital formation (% of GDP)

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ForecastPercent of GDP

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Recent values

Percent of GDP

YearValue
203129.1Forecast
203028.9Forecast
202928.6Forecast
202828.3Forecast
202728.0Forecast
202628.3Forecast
202526.6
202420.3
202320.7
202224.5
202123.4
202017.2
201918.3
201818.4
201716.7
201616.0

Sources

This series is derived from other GMD variables.

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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