Geography - note:
smallest Central American country and only one without a coastline
on Caribbean Sea
People El Salvador
Population:
6,704,932 (July 2005 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 36.5% (male 1,250,901/female 1,198,589)
15-64 years: 58.3% (male 1,860,084/female 2,051,140)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 153,133/female 191,085) (2005 est.)
Median age:
total: 21.57 years
male: 20.44 years
female: 22.69 years (2005 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.75% (2005 est.)
Birth rate:
27.04 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Death rate:
5.85 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Net migration rate:
-3.67 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.91 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.8 male(s)/female
total population: 0.95 male(s)/female (2005 est.)