List of companies of El Salvador

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El Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. El Salvador's capital and largest city is San Salvador. {{As of|2015}}, the country had a population of approximately 6.83 million, consisting largely of Mestizos of European and Indigenous American descent.{{cite web|url=http://www.geohive.com/cntry/elsalvador.aspx |title=El Salvador Survey Data |publisher=GeoHive |year=2013 |accessdate=2014-09-14 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160928023257/http://www.geohive.com/cntry/elsalvador.aspx |archivedate=2016-09-28 }}

El Salvador's economy was historically dominated by agriculture, beginning with the indigo plant (añil in Spanish), the most important crop during the colonial period,{{cite book|author=Tommie Sue Montgomery|title=Revolution in El Salvador: From Civil Strife to Civil Peace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6xTklQxPGe8C&pg=PA27|year=1995|publisher=Westview Press|isbn=978-0-8133-0071-9|page=27}}{{cite book|author=Kevin Murray|title=El Salvador: Peace on Trial|url=https://archive.org/details/elsalvadorpeaceo0000murr|url-access=registration|date=1 January 1997|publisher=Oxfam|isbn=978-0-85598-361-1|pages=[https://archive.org/details/elsalvadorpeaceo0000murr/page/8 8]–}} and followed thereafter by coffee, which by the early 20th century accounted for 90 percent of export earnings.{{cite book|author=Roy Boland|title=Culture and Customs of El Salvador|url=https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00bola|url-access=registration|date=1 January 2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30620-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/culturecustomsof00bola/page/8 8]}}{{cite book|author=Thomas L. Pearcy|title=The History of Central America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BJRoO1VWCSYC&pg=PA43|year=2006|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-32293-8|page=43}} El Salvador has since reduced its dependence on coffee and embarked on diversifying the economy by opening up trade and financial links and expanding the manufacturing sector.{{cite book|author1=Erin Foley|author2=Rafiz Hapipi|title=El Salvador|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PPwwabJIEdkC&pg=PA43|year=2005|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-0-7614-1967-9|page=43}} The colón, the official currency of El Salvador since 1892, was replaced by the U.S. dollar in 2001.