San Salvador — UN urban centre
San Salvador: 1,615,178 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #302 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 893; territory: El Salvador (SLV). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 13.7147, -89.1789. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 983,760 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 1,129,519 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 1,341,340 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,534,037 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,617,590 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,647,468 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,634,134 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,620,380 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,607,095 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,595,590 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 1,615,178 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 1,632,092 | Projection |
| 2035 | 1,644,454 | Projection |
| 2040 | 1,650,976 | Projection |
| 2045 | 1,654,588 | Projection |
| 2050 | 1,650,271 | Projection |
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