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Central America and the Caribbean > El Salvador > Government

SALVADORAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city San Salvador
Corruption 4.2 [54th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 17% [29th of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 16.7 % ... [74th of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 10 ... [71st of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal
Time required to build a warehouse > days 144 days ... [119th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 626 days ... [47th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 33 days ... [111st of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 26 days ... [116th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 224 hours ... [93rd of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 4 years ... [40th of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 21,637 ... [62nd of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 3,689 ... [30th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 1,699 ... [42nd of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on the delimitation of "bolsones" (disputed areas) along the El Salvador-Honduras boundary, in 1992, with final agreement by the parties in 2006 after an Organization of American States (OAS) survey and a further ICJ ruling in 2003; the 1992 ICJ ruling advised a tripartite resolution to a maritime boundary in the Gulf of Fonseca advocating Honduran access to the Pacific; El Salvador continues to claim tiny Conejo Island, not identified in the ICJ decision, off Honduras in the Gulf of Fonseca
UN membership date 24 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.rree.gob.sv/sitio/site.nsf/pages/englishversion
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Kalorama Heights

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: El Salvador, Republic of El Salvador, Republica de El Salvador

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