Employees in El Salvador

El Salvador: Employees was 1,933 in 2025. ▲ Rising

Latest (2025)
1,933
Change on year
up 3.0%
World rank
69th
of 114 countries
All-time high
1,933
in 2025
All-time low
1,240
in 2009
Years of data
17
2009–2025

Employees in El Salvador, 2009–2025

05001.0k1.5k2.0k2009201720252009: 1.2k2010: 1.4k2011: 1.4k2012: 1.5k2013: 1.5k2014: 1.6k2015: 1.6k2016: 1.6k2017: 1.6k2018: 1.7k2019: 1.8k2020: 1.7k2021: 1.7k2022: 1.8k2023: 1.9k2024: 1.9k2025: 1.9k

Source: International Labour Organization.

Analysis

El Salvador recorded 1,933 for employees in 2025. That is the highest value across all 17 years on record.

That represents a change of up 3.0% on the previous year and up 21.7% over ten years.

Over the whole period, employees in El Salvador peaked at 1,933 in 2025 and was at its lowest, 1,240, in 2009.

That places El Salvador 69th out of 114 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 17 years of available data.

Employees in El Salvador, year by year

Annual values for Employees in El Salvador, 2009 to 2025.
Year Value Change
2009 1,240
2010 1,396 +12.6%
2011 1,438 +3.0%
2012 1,489 +3.6%
2013 1,526 +2.4%
2014 1,597 +4.7%
2015 1,589 -0.6%
2016 1,635 +2.9%
2017 1,643 +0.5%
2018 1,721 +4.7%
2019 1,769 +2.8%
2020 1,674 -5.4%
2021 1,747 +4.4%
2022 1,816 +3.9%
2023 1,876 +3.3%
2024 1,876 +0.0%
2025 1,933 +3.0%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
2000s 1,240 1,240 1,240 1
2010s 1,580 1,396 1,769 10
2020s 1,820 1,674 1,933 6

Countries ranked near El Salvador

  1. 66 Slovakia 2,210 compare
  2. 67 Singapore 2,096 compare
  3. 68 Zambia 1,959 compare
  4. 70 Paraguay 1,913 compare
  5. 71 Bolivia 1,776 compare
  6. 72 Kyrgyzstan 1,775 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is employees in El Salvador?
Employees in El Salvador was 1,933 in 2025, according to International Labour Organization.
What is the highest employees recorded in El Salvador?
The highest recorded value was 1,933 in 2025.
What is the lowest employees recorded in El Salvador?
The lowest recorded value was 1,240 in 2009.
How does El Salvador rank for employees?
El Salvador ranks 69th out of 114 countries with data for 2025.
Is employees rising or falling in El Salvador?
Over the last ten years it is up 21.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this El Salvador data come from?
The figures come from International Labour Organization, published as part of Employees. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Employees
Source
International Labour Organization
Licence
ILO Terms of Use (attribution required)
Coverage
114 places, 2,195 data points, 1989–2026
Last refreshed

With the aim of promoting international comparability, statistics presented on ILOSTAT are based on standard international definitions wherever feasible and may differ from official national figures. This series is based on the 13th ICLS definitions. For time series comparability, it includes countries that have implemented the 19th ICLS standards, for which data are also available in the Work Statistics -- 19th ICLS (WORK) database. Employees are all those workers who hold paid employment jobs, which are those where the incumbents hold employment contracts which give them a basic remuneration not directly dependent upon the revenue of the unit for which they work. Data disaggregated by economic activity are provided according to the latest version of the International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities (ISIC) available for that year. Data may have been regrouped from national classifications, which may not be strictly compatible with ISIC. Data disaggregated by occupation are provided according to the latest version of the International Standard Classification of Occupations (ISCO). Data may have been regrouped from the national classifications, which may not be strictly compatible with ISCO. For more information, refer to the Labour Force Statistics (LFS and STLFS) database description.