El Salvador's National Registry Center Cuts Property Transfers from 35 Days to One with AI-Assisted Digitalization

El Salvador's Centro Nacional de Registros (CNR), the public agency handling property, business and intellectual-property registration, has pursued a multi-year digitalization drive that its executive director, Camilo Trigueros, credits partly to AI-assisted processing: property-sale registrations that used to take up to 35 days and mortgage processing that used to take a week are now completed in a single day.
Trigueros reported that AI use contributed to a 4% increase in services delivered in 2023 versus 2022, part of a sustained multi-year growth trend the CNR has publicised: from roughly 1.09 million services in 2021 to 1.18 million in 2022 (+8.2%), 1.25 million in 2023, and over 1.5 million in 2025.
A regional law firm's public analysis (Consortium Legal) and Salvadoran press (Infobae, El Mundo) independently reported these figures as part of El Salvador's wider public-administration modernization push, alongside separate, more heavily promoted AI initiatives from the same government (e.g. in health and education) that international observers, including the World Bank, have publicly cautioned against over-reading from small or non-representative pilots.
Caveat: the CNR figures are self-reported by agency leadership rather than independently audited, the precise share of the productivity gain attributable to AI specifically (versus broader digitalization and process reform) is not disaggregated in the sources, and no public documentation was found on the AI components' data governance or transparency.

Read the full analysis: https://consortiumlegal.com/2024/04/25/inteligencia-artificial-y-la-modernizacion-en-la-administracion-publica-en-el-salvador/