San Salvador Department · El Salvador
San Salvador population
525,990people · latest figure
San Salvador has a population of 525,990, making it the 1st largest place we list in El Salvador. It is in San Salvador Department.
San Salvador holds 8.2% of El Salvador's 6,391,253 people. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 525,990, almost unchanged.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Soyapango | San Salvador Department | 329,708 |
| San Miguel | San Miguel Department | 247,126 |
| Santa Ana | Santa Ana Department | 176,661 |
Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.