El Salvador: Greenhouse Gas and Air Pollutant Emissions since 2015

Supplying an inventory of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions for El Salvador, featuring annual country-level data since 2015 and monthly source-level data since 2021. Produced by the Climate TRACE coalition, the records include sub-sector breakdowns and confidence metrics for over 2.7 million sources globally. The data tracks specific gas types and identifies asset ownership where available.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in El Salvador's greenhouse gas output using monthly source-level data
• Identifying high-emission sub-sectors for targeted environmental policy interventions
• Evaluating the reliability of regional emission reports using the provided confidence scores

Strengths

• Includes monthly source-level granularity since 2021
• Provides confidence metrics for all emissions estimates
• Disaggregates data by specific gas types and sub-sector categories

Limitations

• Emissions are modeled estimates rather than direct physical sensor measurements
• Source-level ownership information is missing for assets where data is unavailable

Provenance

Source

Climate TRACE coalition

Collection Method

Estimated from over 744 million assets using multi-source data integration and modeling

Time Range

2015 - 2026

Freshness

Updated through March 2026; includes monthly granularity for recent observations.

Geography

El Salvador