Country size comparison
compared to
El Salvador is about 93 times smaller than Mexico.
Mexico is approximately 1,964,375 sq km, while El Salvador is approximately 21,041 sq km, making El Salvador 1.07% the size of Mexico. Meanwhile, the population of Mexico is ~129.2 million people (122.6 million fewer people live in El Salvador).
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Moving from El Salvador to Mexico · OECD 2023
4,697 people moved from El Salvador to Mexico.
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