🇪🇨Ecuador

Quito

Americas

Upper middle income

ECU

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Population

18.3M

0.9%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

1.81

births/woman

Life Expectancy

77.6y

GDP / capita

$7.1K

Pop. Growth

0.85%

Net Migration

-17.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Ecuador by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB487.9K(65.9%)

99×

🇨🇴Colombia160K(21.6%)

−36%

🇪🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male9.1MTotal 18.3M9.2MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

45.7

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇵🇪Peru14.3K(1.9%)

−32%

🇺🇸United States13.6K(1.8%)

−18%

🇨🇺Cuba12K(1.6%)

+31%

🇮🇹Italy4.8K(0.6%)

+42%

🇨🇱Chile4.1K(0.6%)

−10%

🇦🇷Argentina3.3K(0.4%)

+23%

🇨🇳China2.5K(0.3%)

−33%

🇲🇽Mexico1.8K(0.2%)

+34%

🇧🇷Brazil1.3K(0.2%)

−9%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Ecuador diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Ecuador who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇺🇸United States561.9K(45.2%)

+24%

🇪🇸Spain432.1K(34.8%)

−12%

🇮🇹Italy76.9K(6.2%)

+11%

🇨🇱Chile46.2K(3.7%)

+149%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB33.3K(2.7%)

−4%

🇨🇴Colombia21.4K(1.7%)

+57%

🇨🇦Canada16.7K(1.3%)

+17%

🇵🇪Peru10K(0.8%)

+130%

🇦🇷Argentina9.7K(0.8%)

+107%

🇲🇽Mexico7.6K(0.6%)

+242%

🇧🇪Belgium7.5K(0.6%)

+56%

🇵🇦Panama4.9K(0.4%)

+114%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024