List of Salvadoran Departments by Human Development Index

El Salvador has a HDI of 0.695-medium (2nd in Central America, Costa Rica has 1st with 0.740) and a population of est.8,173,402. Though it has the third highest population in Central America, it is the smallest country, with eight million people living in its area of 21,000sq km (13,048sq mi). This document lists all of the fourteen departments of El Salvador in order of the highest to lowest human development index.^[1]

World Trade Center in (1st) San Salvador

Santa Tecla Cathedral in (2nd) La Libertad

Acajutla port in (4th) Sonsonate

view of the capital city of (6th) San Miguel

Ataco Village in (9th) Ahuachapán

Construction of La Union Port, built to develop the department of (12th) La Union

Departments

Place	Departament	Capital	HDI	Estimated Population 2010
Very High
1st	San Salvador Department	San Salvador	0.795	2,995,787
High
2nd	La Libertad Department	Santa Tecla, El Salvador	0.768	842,624
3rd	Santa Ana Department	Santa Ana, El Salvador	0.740	630,903
4th	Sonsonate Department	Sonsonate	0.731	518,522
5th	Cuscatlán	Cojutepeque	0.727	231,480
6th	San Miguel Department	San Miguel, El Salvador	0.713	454,003
7th	La Paz Department	Zacatecoluca	0.707	318,107
8th	Usulután Department	Usulután	0.698	464,883
9th	Ahuachapán Department	Ahuachapán	0.694	377,141
10th	San Vicente Department	San Vicente, El Salvador	0.688	230,205
Medium
11th	Chalatenango Department	Chalatenango	0.682	274,878
12th	La Unión Department	La Unión, El Salvador	0.675	372,271
13th	Cabañas	Sensuntepeque	0.662	214,150
14th	Morazán	San Francisco Gotera	0.642	251,447

References

1. Informe Nacional de Desarrollo Humano 2008 Programa de las Naciones Unidas para el Desarrollo.