El Salvador vs Yemen: Total reserves
Total reserves over time
- El Salvador
- Yemen
How they compare
Yemen currently reports 17.0% against 14.8% in El Salvador, a difference of 2.2%.
That makes Yemen's figure about 1.1 times El Salvador's.
The two have swapped places 5 times across 33 shared years of data; in 1990 it was El Salvador ahead.
El Salvador ranks 93rd and Yemen ranks 90th of 112 countries.
Across the 4 decades both report, El Salvador averaged higher in 1 and Yemen in 3.
Head to head by decade
| Decade | El Salvador | Yemen | Difference | Ahead |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 37.1% | 13.4% | 23.7% | El Salvador |
| 2000s | 26.2% | 100.7% | 74.5% | Yemen |
| 2010s | 21.0% | 48.0% | 26.9% | Yemen |
| 2020s | 15.4% | 17.6% | 2.2% | Yemen |
Averages of every year both report within each decade.
Frequently asked questions
- Which has higher total reserves, El Salvador or Yemen?
- Yemen, at 17.0% against 14.8% in El Salvador as of 2022.
- What is the difference in total reserves between El Salvador and Yemen?
- 2.2%, with Yemen ahead.
- How many years of comparable data are there for El Salvador and Yemen?
- 33 years are reported by both, from 1990 to 2022.
- How do El Salvador and Yemen rank globally for total reserves?
- El Salvador ranks 93rd and Yemen ranks 90th of 112 countries.
- Where does this data come from?
- International Debt Statistics, World Bank (WB), published as Total reserves (% of total external debt). Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.
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About this data
Reserve assets are external assets, including monetary gold, that are readily available to and controlled by monetary authorities for meeting balance of payments financing needs, for intervention in exchange markets to affect the currency exchange rate, and for other related purposes (such as maintaining confidence in the currency and the economy, and serving as a basis for foreign borrowing). Reserve assets must be denominated and settled in foreign currency. This indicator is expressed as a percentage of total external debt which are all liabilities that require payment(s) of interest and/or principal by the debtor at some point(s) in the future and that are owed to non-residents by residents of an economy.