Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in Honduras instead of El Salvador, you would:

Health

be 13.0% less likely to be obese

In El Salvador, 24.6% of adults are obese as of 2016. In Honduras, that number is 21.4% of people as of 2016.

Economy

pay a 16.7% lower top tax rate

El Salvador has a top tax rate of 30.0% as of 2016. In Honduras, the top tax rate is 25.0% as of 2016.

make 42.5% less money

El Salvador has a GDP per capita of $11,300 as of 2023, while in Honduras, the GDP per capita is $6,500 as of 2023.

be 2.2 times more likely to be unemployed

In El Salvador, 2.8% of adults are unemployed as of 2023. In Honduras, that number is 6.1% as of 2023.

be 80.5% more likely to live below the poverty line

In El Salvador, 26.6% live below the poverty line as of 2022. In Honduras, however, that number is 48.0% as of 2019.

Life

have 16.4% more children

In El Salvador, there are approximately 17.1 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024. In Honduras, there are 19.9 babies per 1,000 people as of 2024.

be 67.4% more likely to die during childbirth

In El Salvador, approximately 43.0 women per 100,000 births die during labor as of 2020. In Honduras, 72.0 women do as of 2020.

be 24.2% more likely to die during infancy

In El Salvador, approximately 12.1 children (per 1,000 live births) die before they reach the age of one as of 2022. In Honduras, on the other hand, 15.1 children do as of 2022.

Basic Needs

be 23.8% less likely to have internet access

In El Salvador, approximately 63.0% of the population has internet access as of 2021. In Honduras, about 48.0% do as of 2021.

Expenditures

spend 56.1% more on education

El Salvador spends 4.1% of its total GDP on education as of 2020. Honduras spends 6.4% of total GDP on education as of 2020.

Geography

see 2.7 times more coastline

El Salvador has a total of 307 km of coastline. In Honduras, that number is 823 km.

The statistics above were calculated using the following data sources: Dirección Ejecutiva de Ingresos, The World Factbook, Ministry of Finance.

Honduras: At a glance

Honduras is a sovereign country in Central America/Caribbean, with a total land area of approximately 111,890 sq km. Once part of Spain's vast empire in the New World, Honduras became an independent nation in 1821. After two and a half decades of mostly military rule, a freely elected civilian government came to power in 1982. During the 1980s, Honduras proved a haven for anti-Sandinista contras fighting the Marxist Nicaraguan Government and an ally to Salvadoran Government forces fighting leftist guerrillas. The country was devastated by Hurricane Mitch in 1998, which killed about 5,600 people and caused approximately $2 billion in damage. Since then, the economy has slowly rebounded.
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