El Salvador vs Peru: Prosperity gap

El Salvador
3.55
in 2023
Peru
3.63
in 2024
El Salvador rank
48th
Peru rank
46th

Prosperity gap over time

  • El Salvador
  • Peru
4681012198920062024

How they compare

Peru currently reports 3.63 against 3.55 in El Salvador, a difference of 0.0807.

The two have swapped places 9 times across 25 shared years of data; in 1998 it was El Salvador ahead.

El Salvador ranks 48th and Peru ranks 46th of 120 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Prosperity gap
Source
World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
120 places, 2,148 data points, 1963–2025
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Average factor by which incomes need to be multiplied to bring everyone to the prosperity standard of $28 per person per day.