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Key facts

  • Currency: U.S. dollar
  • Capital city: Quito
  • Region: South America
  • Continent: Americas
  • Land area: 248,360 km²
  • Population: 18,001,000
  • Political Leader: Lenín Moreno (President)

Latest news

Bulgarian authorities seize $6.8M worth of cocaine hidden in banana shipment from Ecuador

Read: Fox News

2024-03-26

AMLO In Talks to Boost Migrant Stipend Plan in Colombia, Ecuador

Read: Bloomberg

2024-03-26

Ecuador FA condemns players seen at strip club

Read: ESPN

2024-03-26

Bulgarian authorities seize 170 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment from Ecuador

Read: ABC News

2024-03-26

Bulgarian authorities seize 170 kilograms of cocaine hidden in a banana shipment from Ecuador

Read: The Star

2024-03-26

Ecuador's youngest mayor shot dead

Read: Sky News

2024-03-25

Fall-out from Ecuador's Crises Highlights Need to Invest in Grassroots Resilience

Read: Global Issues

2024-03-22

Metrics

Business

Expense 30.72 % of GDP
GDP 115,049,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 3.47 annual %
Self-employed 53.30 % of total employment
Tax revenue 13.21 % of GDP
Unemployment 3.76 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 50.80 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 54,700.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 6.21 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 34,431.00 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 12.67 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 50.70 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 34.53 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 2.10 % of total
Net energy imports -114.71 % of energy use
Fertility rate 2.03 births per woman
Forest area 124,336 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 86.88 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 -335.69 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 23.90 years
Methane emissions 27,460.30 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 5,192.81 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 9,016,398
Male Population 8,984,602
Renewable energy consumption 20.10 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 253,214.00 km²
Rural population 6,377,754
Urban land area 2,293.85 km²
Urban population 11,623,246
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 6.35 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 16.82 per 1,000 people
Death rate 6.72 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 478.53 current US$
Health expenditure 8.48 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.11 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.39 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 74 years
Suicide mortality rate 7.60 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Individuals using the Internet 69.72 % of population
Net migration -20,206
Press freedom 2.45


Politics

Armed forces personnel 42,000
Democracy score 6.27
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 2.16 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 38.69 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 2 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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