El Salvador: poverty headcount ratio at 3.20 U.S. dollars a day 2005-2017

In 2017, approximately 8.5 percent of Salvadorians were living on less than 3.20 U.S. dollars per day, down from 22.8 percent of the country's population in 2005. As the graph shows, the Central American country has shown significant improvements in the level of poverty, almost uninterruptedly since 2008.