Country comparison Mexico : El Salvador

General information

	Mexico	El Salvador
Region:	Central America	Central America
Area:	1,964,375 km²	21,040 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1810 AD	1841 AD
Capital:	Mexico City	San Salvador

Population

	Mexico	El Salvador
Population:	128,933,000	6,486,000
Inhabitants/km²:	65.6	308.3
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 29.3 years	Ø 27.7 years
Birthrate:	17.01 ‰	17.83 ‰
Deathrate:	6.15 ‰	7.10 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.46 ‰	-5.57 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Mexico	El Salvador
Political stability:	45	58
Civil rights:	37	39
Health:	54	49
Climate:	83	66
Cost of Living:	35	51
Popularity:	68	16

Economy

	Mexico	El Salvador
Currency:	Mexican Peso (1 MXN = 100 Centavos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.4 %	5.9 %
Inflation rate:	5.69 %	3.47 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	52.98 %	48.59 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.10 %	36.40 %
Average income:	8,480 US$	3,630 US$
Corruption index:	31 (bad)	34 (bad)

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	SLV: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,073,916 M US$	8.33 M US$	24,639 M US$	3.80 M US$
Gross national product:	1,092,872 M US$	8.48 M US$	23,516 M US$	3.63 M US$
Exported goods:	434,179 M US$	3.37 M US$	6,290 M US$	0.97 M US$
Imported goods:	411,255 M US$	3.19 M US$	10,816 M US$	1.67 M US$

Infrastructure

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	SLV: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	398,148 km	3.09 km	9,012 km	1.39 km
Railways:	20,825 km	0.16 km	13 km	0.00 km
Harbours:	671	0.005	2	0.000
Airports:	1,714	0.013	68	0.010

Energy balance

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	SLV: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	258.70 bn kWh	2.01 m kWh	5.93 bn kWh	913,940.22 kWh
Energy production:	302.70 bn kWh	2.35 m kWh	5.83 bn kWh	898,831.23 kWh
Energy export:	7.31 bn kWh	56,680.71 kWh	89.60 m kWh	13,813.94 kWh
Energy imports:	3.53 bn kWh	27,394.13 kWh	1.07 bn kWh	164,348.90 kWh
CO2 emissions:	472.14 m t	3,661.91 t	6.81 m t	1,049.92 t

Telecommunication

	Mexico	El Salvador
International dialing:	+52	+503
Internet domain:	.mx	.sv

	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.	SLV total	SLV per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	23,800,105	185	893,630	138
Mobile cellulars:	120,481,969	934	10,396,786	1603
Internet server:	16,233,000	126	24,070	4
Internet users:	92,792,902	720	3,274,960	505
Broadband Internet:	21,936,131	170	586,000	90

Healthcare system

	Mexico	El Salvador
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	0.98	1.20
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.25	1.57
Diabetes:	13.5 %	8.8 %
HIV:	0.27 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	0.2 %	0.6 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	72.0 %	90.0 %
Smokers:	13.1 %	7.9 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Mexico and El Salvador

	Mexico	El Salvador
Daytime temperatures:	29.3 °C	31.2 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.5 °C	21.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	63 %	75 %
Rain days:	6.2	9.0
Sunshine hours per day:	7.5	8.3

Native languages

	Mexico	El Salvador
Spanish:	92.1 %	99.0 %
Náhuatl:	1.8 %	n/a
Yucatec:	1.1 %	n/a
Zapotec:	0.6 %	n/a
Mixtec:	0.6 %	n/a
Otomí:	0.4 %	n/a
Nahua:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	3.4 %	0.6 %

Religions

	Mexico	El Salvador
Christianity:	90.7 %	80.9 %
Nondenominational:	4.7 %	16.8 %
other:	4.6 %	2.3 %