Economic Freedom Summary Index, Economic Freedom of the World, 25 Sep 2025
2023 overall score: 7.09, rank: 58
Territory in Central America, ruled since 1983 by the República de El Salvador
El Salvador (Spanish: República de El Salvador, literally "Republic of The Savior"), is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. As of 2016, the country had a population of approximately 6.34 million.
Geographical type: Territory
Latitude: 13.83° N — Longitude: 88.92° W
Area: 21,041 km²
ISO 3166-2 code: SV
Measures of Freedom
El Salvador: Country Profile, Freedom in the World, 2025
Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 47/100, Political Rights: 17/40, Civil Liberties: 30/60
Status: Partly Free, Aggregate Score: 47/100, Political Rights: 17/40, Civil Liberties: 30/60
In 2024, Nayib Bukele won a second presidential term, having run despite a constitutional ban on presidents seeking two consecutive terms. Widespread corruption undermines democracy and the rule of law, while the executive has concentrated control over the legislature, judiciary, and oversight institutions. Authorities maintain a harsh, militarized response to public security, resulting in extrajudicial killings, mass arbitrary arrests, and other abuses. Members of the active civil society sector and dynamic press risk harassment and violence ...
Human Freedom Index [PDF], The Human Freedom Index 2023: A Global Measurement of Personal, Civil, and Economic Freedom
2021: 6.85, Rank: 77, Personal freedom: 6.67, Economic freedom: 7.11
2021: 6.85, Rank: 77, Personal freedom: 6.67, Economic freedom: 7.11
Articles
Improve the CIA? Better to abolish it, by Chalmers Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 Feb 2004
Lists some of the countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency
Lists some of the countries where the CIA conducted subversive operations and recommends abolishing the agency
Since the overthrow of the Iranian government in 1953, the CIA has engaged in similar disguised assaults on the governments of Guatemala (1954); the Congo (1960); Cuba (1961); Brazil (1964); Indonesia (1965); Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia (1961-73); Greece (1967); Chile (1973); Afghanistan (1979 to the present); El Salvador, Guatemala and Nicaragua (1980s); and Iraq (1991 to the present)—to name only the most obvious cases. [emphasis added]
Related Topics: Afghanistan, Attacks of 11 September 2001, Brazil, Cambodia, Chile, Cuba, Foreign entanglements, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Laos, Nicaragua, United States, Vietnam
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