El Salvador vs Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income): Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre

El Salvador
29.38 units per square kilometre
in 2023
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
2.66 units per square kilometre
in 2023
El Salvador rank
37th
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) rank
38th

Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre over time

  • El Salvador
  • Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
01020304050197019962023

How they compare

El Salvador currently reports 29.38 units per square kilometre against 2.66 units per square kilometre in Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income), a difference of 26.72 units per square kilometre.

That makes El Salvador's figure about 11.1 times Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)'s.

Across all 50 years both countries report, El Salvador has been ahead every year.

El Salvador ranks 37th and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) ranks 38th of 206 countries.

El Salvador has averaged higher in every one of the 6 decades both report.

Head to head by decade

Decade El Salvador Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) Difference Ahead
1970s 30.08 units per square kilometre 19.56 units per square kilometre 10.52 units per square kilometre El Salvador
1980s 35.61 units per square kilometre 20.6 units per square kilometre 15.01 units per square kilometre El Salvador
1990s 42.31 units per square kilometre 5.24 units per square kilometre 37.07 units per square kilometre El Salvador
2000s 48.64 units per square kilometre 2.73 units per square kilometre 45.91 units per square kilometre El Salvador
2010s 37.12 units per square kilometre 2.46 units per square kilometre 34.66 units per square kilometre El Salvador
2020s 29.28 units per square kilometre 2.64 units per square kilometre 26.63 units per square kilometre El Salvador

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher primary education, pupils, per square kilometre, El Salvador or Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
El Salvador, at 29.38 units per square kilometre against 2.66 units per square kilometre in Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) as of 2023.
What is the difference in primary education, pupils, per square kilometre between El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
26.72 units per square kilometre, with El Salvador ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)?
50 years are reported by both, from 1970 to 2023.
How do El Salvador and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) rank globally for primary education, pupils, per square kilometre?
El Salvador ranks 37th and Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) ranks 38th of 206 countries.
Where does this data come from?
Statizoid (derived), published as Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Individual pages

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

El Salvador vs Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income): Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre. Statizoid, drawing on Statizoid (derived). Retrieved 15 September 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/compare/primary-education-pupils-per-square-kilometre/el-salvador/europe-and-central-asia-excluding-high-income/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page; please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/compare/primary-education-pupils-per-square-kilometre/el-salvador/europe-and-central-asia-excluding-high-income/">El Salvador vs Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income): Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Primary education, pupils, per square kilometre
Unit
units per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
251 places, 10,846 data points, 1970–2023
Last refreshed

Primary education, pupils divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.