Trade partner concentration — by country, all commodities, current
How concentrated El Salvador's trade is across its top partner countries, computed from currently-tracked trade flows (not the historical 1997–2015 World Bank dataset). Measures country-to-country concentration only — El Salvador's trade_flows records don't carry product-level detail to break this down further.
Top trading partners — BCR El Salvador Trade by Country
El Salvador's own official trading-partner ranking, Jan 2025. Published directly by El Salvador's own national statistics office or customs authority -- a different measurement from the computed concentration figures above, and not the frozen World Bank Exporter Dynamics vintage below. Currency is each source's own reported unit, not converted here (no FX-rate table exists on this site).
El Salvador is not among the top tracked corridors — its bilateral flow records exist in the full 1,821,338-row dataset but aren't yet browsable individually on this site.
Full partner list for 2025
Every one of El Salvador's 117 real trading partners reported for 2025 under UN Comtrade (SV) — a complete, deduplicated partner breakdown for this exact country/source/period combination, not a global top-N slice.
Historical dataset — World Bank Exporter Dynamics Database, 1997–2014, frozen. The World Bank has not published a newer edition; this never updates. El Salvador also has a single-year firm entry/exit snapshot on /labor-market.
Firm-level entry/exit/survival dynamics for El Salvador's exporting firms, whole economy (not broken down by product) so every figure below is a genuine national rate — never an average across incompatible product categories. See /exporter-dynamics to compare El Salvador against all 68 covered countries.
Metric
Latest value
Year
Trend (2002–2009)
Number of exporting firms
2,569
2009
Incumbent exporting firms
1,834
2009
New entrant exporting firms
735
2009
Exiting exporting firms
792
2009
Firm entry rate
28.6%
2009
Firm exit rate
30.2%
2009
Exporter concentration (EDD HHI, 0–1 scale)
0.019
2009
Product categories exported (distinct HS4 codes)
928
2009
Avg. export value per exporting firm
$1.6M
2009
Median export value per exporting firm
$31.7K
2009
Avg. destination countries per exporting firm
2.5
2010
Median destination countries per exporting firm
1.0
2010
The 2009 mean is 50x the median — a small number of large exporting firms account for most of the export value; the typical firm exports far less than the average figure suggests.
Entrant survival curve — 2008 cohort of new exporting firms: 41.7% still exporting after 1 year — later years not yet available for this cohort (the World Bank vintage ends before enough time passed to observe them).
Top product categories among El Salvador's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2009 — each row is a real, separately-reported HS2 product category, never combined with another.
Product category (HS2)
Exporting firms
Machinery and mechanical appliances HS 84
804
Plastics and articles thereof HS 39
462
Electrical machinery and equipment HS 85
427
Articles of iron or steel HS 73
359
Furniture, bedding, lamps HS 94
353
Paper and paperboard HS 48
335
Inorganic chemicals HS 28
312
Optical, medical, precision instruments HS 90
287
Top manufacturing industries among El Salvador's exporting firms by number of exporters, 2009 — each row is a real, separately-reported ISIC industry, never combined with another.
Manufacturing industry (ISIC)
Exporting firms
Plastics products ISIC 252
567
Other chemical products ISIC 242
443
Other fabricated metal products; metalworking ISIC 289
429
General purpose machinery ISIC 291
407
Special purpose machinery ISIC 292
346
Other manufacturing ISIC 369
323
Other textiles ISIC 172
307
Paper and paper products ISIC 210
307
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