El Salvador: press freedom index 2024

In 2024, the press freedom index of El Salvador stood at 44.01, down more than 30 points from the 76.34-score recorded in 2015. As a result, the Central American nation was among the 10 countries with the worst press freedom index in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2024. The indicator presents an overview of the plurality and independence of the media and how safe and free it is for journalists to do their job, with lower scores indicating a worse situation for the press and higher scores a better one.

Press freedom index in El Salvador from 2015 to 2024

Characteristic	Index score
2024	44.01
2023	51.36
2022	54.09
2021	69.51
2020	70.3
2019	70.19
2018	72.22
2017	72.76
2016	72.8
2015	76.34

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Release date

May 2024

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Region

El Salvador

Survey time period

2015 to 2024

Supplementary notes

According to the source, the Index ranks 180 countries and regions according to the level of freedom available to journalists. It is a snapshot of the media freedom situation based on an evaluation of pluralism, independence of the media, quality of legislative framework and safety of journalists in each country and region. It does not rank public policies even if governments obviously have a major impact on their country’s ranking. Nor is it an indicator of the quality of journalism in each country or region.
The countries surveyed were scored between 0 and 100, with 0 being the worst possible result and 100 the best.

The date of release is the date of access.
Data prior to 2021 was retrieved from earlier releases.

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