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El Salvador

A nation of 6.4 million where citizens abroad send home 27.5% of the economy, almost all power is renewable, and the IMF approved a $1.4 billion programme in February 2025.

Perfect Nations values what El Salvador owns and raises capital against it, through innovative financing for development (FfD) and super intelligence (SI).

El Salvador at a glance

  • 6.4mPeopleWorld Bank
  • Furthest from reach · Education69.1%of children in El Salvador cannot read a simple text by the end of primary school, on 2019 dataWorld Bank, 2019
  • 4Instruments and investments on recordCapital already committed
Work with usRead the Letter to El Salvador

What we do for El Salvador

Assets. Capital. Solutions.

Perfect Nations is a new-age sovereign advisory firm, and its clients are nations.

  1. 01AssetsThe cupFive sovereign assets, valued, from The Diaspora to The Visitors.
  2. 02CapitalThe laurels4 instruments and investments on record, every one sourced.
  3. 03SolutionsThe seven starsSeven basic standards of living, star by star. Education is furthest from reach today.

The whole logo: a Perfect Nation, where every citizen has all seven basic standards of living, led by good governance.

01Assets · The cup · Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can carry El Salvador toward seven basic standards of living for every citizen.

  • 27.5%Of GDP sent home by citizens abroad, 2025

    The Diaspora

    Citizens abroad send home a steady share of the economy: a flow that can back long-term finance.

  • 95.6%Of electricity from renewable sources, 2021

    The Clean Grid

    Power from water, wind and sun already flows; every new connection can be clean.

  • 57.7%Of the land in agriculture, 2023

    The Farmland

    Land that can feed the nation and earn abroad, valued and financed against its harvest.

  • 6.4mCitizens, 2025

    The People

    24.4% are under fifteen: the workforce and the market of the next generation.

  • 12.3%Of export earnings from visitors, 2020

    The Visitors

    Visitors already pay for the coast and the culture; their spending can finance what lasts.

Every figure, with its sourceThe Sovereign Assets ledger

02Capital · The laurels · Capital Architecture

Remittances, reform and renewable power.

Bonds, guarantees, swaps and loans that raise capital against what El Salvador owns, every line sourced.

Capital Architecture

The record in figures

  • $1.4bnIMF Extended Fund Facility of 40 months, approved 26 February 2025 (SDR 1,033.92 million)IMF, 2025
  • $150MPromoting Job Opportunities and Skills Development, November 2023World Bank, 2023
  • 27.5%Remittances received from citizens abroad, share of GDP, 2025World Bank, 2025
  • 87.6%General government gross debt, share of GDP, 2025IMF, WEO Oct 2026

Capital already committed

  • MultilateralDisbursingExtended Fund Facility$1.4bn

    IMF · Approved 26 February 2025 · First review and 2025 Article IV, 27 June 2025

    The first review released about $118 million.

    IMF

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedPromoting Job Opportunities and Skills Development$150M

    World Bank · Approved 28 November 2023

    Skills and jobs for young people.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedTransport and Resilient Infrastructure$150M

    World Bank · Approved 30 October 2023

    Roads and bridges built to withstand storms.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralApprovedWater Sector Resilience$100M

    World Bank · Approved 27 April 2023

    Reliable water supply.

    World Bank

    Source

The El Salvador Newswire

The Solutions Wire
Gabriela Alvarado, Nation Steward of El Salvador

Gabriela AlvaradoNation Steward of El Salvador · SI Researcher

Already working in El Salvador.

Independent firms and social enterprises already at work in El Salvador, highlighted by Perfect Nations. None is a partner of Perfect Nations.

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  • The first firms and social enterprises at work in El Salvador are being gathered.

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03Solutions · The seven stars · Perfect Capita

Perfect El Salvador, star by star.

Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with El Salvador in its own prices.

How Perfect Capita works
El Salvador: the seven stars of the logo, one for each basic standard of living, rising from the cup; Food is the larger centre star. Each star carries the figure for El Salvador.WATER91.6%SHELTER36%ENERGY95%FOOD54.5%EDUCATION30.9HEALTH79LIVELIHOOD70.1%
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Education · furthest from reach30.9% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2019, datedWorld Bank, 2019

Tap a star for its figure and source.

The price of Perfect El Salvador

To be set with El Salvador, from its own figures and in its own prices: Perfect Capita times the people of El Salvador, each year.

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  • Food54.5%Not food insecure; 45.5% are moderately or severely food insecureFAO, 2023
  • Water91.6%Basic drinking water; safely managed water is not measured (lenient)WHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Shelter36%Safely managed sanitation; 16.5% of city dwellers live in slumsWHO/UNICEF, 2024
  • Energy95%95% cook with clean fuels and technology; 98.7% have electricityWorld Bank, 2024
  • Education30.930.9% of children read a simple text by the end of primary school; 2019, datedWorld Bank, 2019
  • Health79WHO service coverage indexWHO, 2023
  • Livelihood70.1%Above US$8.30 a day; 29.9% live below itWorld Bank, 2023

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with El Salvador. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking; where electricity per person is not published, clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group (US$8.30 a day for high-income nations). Each figure links to its source.

Solutions for Perfect El Salvador

All Solutions

  • The Solution for El SalvadorEducation

    Finance learning, not only classrooms.

    • 01The challenge69.1% Of children in El Salvador cannot read a simple text by the end of primary school, on 2019 data. World Bank, 2019
    • 02The dealProgram-for-Results, proved in Tanzania, 2021: $588M for primary school learning. World Bank, project P169380
    • 03What Perfect Nations advisesNations where education is furthest from reach should borrow on a Program-for-Results basis, releasing each tranche only when pupils reach an agreed learning level, verified independently. With super intelligence, reading levels can be tracked school by school, so that every child who falls behind is reached in time.
    Co-design it inThe ReDesign StudioThe three mandates
Perfect Nations® · Letters to the NationsEl Salvador

Dear El Salvador,

Salvadorans abroad send home more than a quarter of your economy, almost all your electricity is renewable, and the IMF and the World Bank support your reforms.

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Nine in ten homes have drinking water. Yet on the 2019 data, 69.1% of your children could not read a simple text by the end of primary school. The World Bank is financing the modernisation of your schools; let every child leave primary school reading.

“Let every child leave primary school reading.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations

Work with us · The ReDesign Studio

The Perfect El Salvador ReDesign Studio

One mission, three depths: the same four moves for El Salvador, taken as far toward market as you choose.

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For the Government of El Salvador, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments

  1. Mandate 013 hours

    The Nation Briefing

    A private session for the people who decide.

    You leave withThe gap, named and sized

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    1. 01The five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Education, the standard furthest from reach, and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03The instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04The path to market, outlined.
    Request a Nation Briefing

  2. Mandate 023 days

    The Blueprint Lab

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    You leave withThe structure, drawn

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    1. 01The ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Each of the seven standards costed in local prices.
    3. 03One financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04A term sheet and the partners to approach.
    Plan a Blueprint Lab

  3. Mandate 03End to end

    The Sovereign Mandate

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    You leave withA structure ready for market

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    1. 01A full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Perfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03The full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Taken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

Co-design it with us

Where Salvadorans and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

  • Writings

    Write Perfect El Salvador into being.

    Up to 1,500 words on your vision of Perfect El Salvador, published with your name.

    Submit your writing

  • Voices of Perfect Nations Launching soon

    The local leaders already building Perfect El Salvador.

    Great local leaders: honest, dedicated and committed to basic standards of living for all. Every guest answers one question: “What does El Salvador already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

    Nominate yourselfSuggest a guest

  • Co-designers

    Join the community.

    Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect El Salvador.

    Become a Co-designer

The El Salvador ReDesign Studio is open

Design Perfect El Salvador with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us: every message receives a personal reply.

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators (API), accessed 10 November 2026: population and ages 0 to 14, 2025; land area and agricultural and forest land; renewable fresh water per person, 2022; natural resource, oil, gas and mineral rents, 2021; renewable electricity output, 2021; tourism receipts; personal remittances; electricity access and clean cooking.
  2. The seven standards: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF JMP water and sanitation, UN-Habitat urban slums, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and lower-secondary completion, and poverty headcounts (all via the World Bank); WHO UHC service coverage index, 2023.
  3. IMF, World Economic Outlook, October 2026 (DataMapper, accessed 10 November 2026): general government gross debt, 2025, and real GDP growth projected for 2026.
  4. IMF press releases 25/043 (26 February 2025) and of 27 June 2025.
  5. World Bank projects P179829, P178720 and P178734; World Bank press releases of 31 March 2026.
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