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The UN World Bank cites the IMF as the source for their data on Current Account Balance, and so is not included separately on this page. The second list includes only countries for which the CIA World Factbook lists 2015 estimates for both Current Account Balance and GDP.
The economy of El Salvador has experienced relatively low rates of GDP growth, in comparison to other developing countries. Rates have not risen above the low single digits in nearly two decades – part of a broader environment of macroeconomic instability which the integration of the United States dollar has done little to improve. [ 14 ]
The World Economic Forum's Global Competitiveness Report ranked El Salvador 77 out of 133. El Salvador ranks 124th among 189 countries in the Human Development Index. [1] El Salvador has the second-highest level of income equality in Latin America. [2]
On the whole, PPP per capita figures are less spread than nominal GDP per capita figures. [5] The rankings of national economies over time have changed considerably; the economy of the United States surpassed the British Empire's output around 1916, [6] which in turn had surpassed the economy of the Qing dynasty in aggregate output decades earlier.
Data are in millions of international dollars; they were compiled by the World Bank. The third table is a tabulation of the CIA World Factbook GDP (PPP) data update of 2019. The data for GDP at purchasing power parity has also been rebased using the new International Comparison Program price surveys and extrapolated to 2007.
El Salvador: According to the World Bank, El Salvador is the fourth-largest economy in the region, and has a GDP PPP of $50,903 million. [3] The Salvadoran economy grew by 3% in 2010, after a strong contraction in 2009. [8] Honduras: Is the second-poorest country in Central America, with 60% living in poverty according to the CIA World Factbook.
The figures are from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) World Economic Outlook Database, unless otherwise specified. [1] This list is not to be confused with the list of countries by real GDP per capita growth, which is the percentage change of GDP per person recalculated according to the changing number of the population of the country.
Historically, the United States was consistently year after year the world's largest economy since the early twentieth century. However, the report from 2014 showed that for the very first time China overtook the United States as the largest economy in the world taking into account purchasing power parity (PPP). Indeed, the margin of power ...