El Salvador CPI inflation (year-on-year)
El Salvador CPI inflation (year-on-year) is 2.49 percent, in force since 1 Jul 2026. It was 2.76 percent before that. Last checked against the official source on 7 Sep 2026.
Consumer price index annual variation, IPC base December 2009 = 100, produced by ONEC (Oficina Nacional de Estadística y Censos, within the BCR) and published in the BCR economic database.
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| Current value | 2.49 percent (y/y) |
|---|---|
| In force from | 2026-07-01 |
| In force until | 2026-07-31 |
| Official source | BCR/ONEC, Base de Datos Económica y Financiera — Índice de Precios al Consumidor (IPC, diciembre 2009=100), datos actualizados hasta julio 2026: July 2026 general index 134.55 vs July 2025 131.29; official y/y rate 2.49% ('al ubicarse en 2.49 %, según las estadísticas del Banco Central de Reserva (BCR)', BCR-attributed press of 19-ago-2026, down 0.27pp from June's 2.76%) |
| Last verified | 2026-09-07 |
| Verification | primary — No verification limitation recorded — read from the official source cited. |
| Provenance | source fingerprint |
What this value means
June 2026 general index 134.48 (highest since the series began) vs June 2025 130.86 → 2.76% y/y as reported from BCR/ONEC data; note that computing from the published rounded indices gives 2.77% — the official figure uses unrounded underlying data, so a 0.01pp discrepancy is rounding, not error. 2026 index path (BCR portal, loaded): ene 131.00, feb 131.60, mar 132.18, abr 133.12, may 133.74, jun 134.48. Basket: 238 items (196 goods, 42 services), price collection in 6 departments covering ~80% of household spending (ONEC methodology page, onec.bcr.gob.sv). DIGESTYC was dissolved in 2021; ONEC inside the BCR is its successor as CPI producer. Access quirks: the BCR portal table is JS-rendered and only exposes recent rows to a plain fetch; the 'tasa de crecimiento anual' view could not be fetched directly, so y/y rates were cross-computed from the portal's index rows and match BCR-attributed figures exactly for Mar (1.47%) and Apr (2.16%); Jun-2025 index value (130.86) is from La Prensa Gráfica quoting BCR data (7-jul-2026 report). SECMCA (official CMCA portal) independently confirms Mar-2026 at 1.47%. UPDATE (roll applied 2026-08-21): July 2026: general index 134.55 vs 131.29 in July 2025; computing from rounded indices gives 2.48% while the official figure is 2.49% — the same ~0.01pp rounding artifact documented for June, in the opposite direction. The portal's 'Datos actualizados hasta' span (id=periodo_datos_actualizados) is a reliable freshness marker in a plain curl, and the recent index rows (Oct-2024 onward) are present in the raw HTML despite the Livewire rendering; unknown /serie/ slugs return HTTP 200 with a ~6.6KB stub, so never trust status codes alone on this portal. August 2026 IPC expected on the portal around mid-September 2026 (June data surfaced ~7 July, July data ~mid-August); SECMCA's monthly El Salvador note lags the BCR by roughly 2-6 weeks.
Earlier values
| From | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-06-01 | 2.76 | BCR/ONEC, Base de Datos Económica y Financiera — Índice de… |
| 2026-05-01 | 2.53 | — |
| 2026-04-01 | 2.16 | — |
| 2026-03-01 | 1.47 | — |
| 2026-02-01 | 1.17 | — |
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