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Ecuador population

Ecuador population now

18,482,519

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 18.3–18.7 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 17,980,083

Year
2026
projection · medium
Population, mid-2026
18.4445 million
95% range, 31 Dec: 18.3–18.7 million
Median age
30.7
Aged 65+
8.9%
2023 | 2024 peak 2063

male female projection · one cell = 5,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

ECU · 1950–2100 · in brief

Ecuador in numbers

17,980,083 people lived in Ecuador in mid-2023: 0.22% of the world's people, and the 72nd-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 5.1 times its 1950 population of 3.5 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2063 at 21.7 million, then falling to 19.1 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 11.2 million to 28.2 million.

In the medium projection, deaths outnumber births every year from 2064 on.

The median age was 20.0 in 1950 and 29.4 in 2023; the projection has 51.1 in 2100. 8.1% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 33.0% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2048 at 14.0 million.

Among countries it ranks 72nd in 2023, 74th in 2050 and 80th in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes the Netherlands in 2027, Romania in 2028 and Chile in 2041. It is overtaken by Zimbabwe in 2033, Cambodia in 2038 and Benin in 2040.

Population, mid-2023
17,980,083
Rank by population, 2023
72 of 236
Share of the world, 2023
0.22%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023
+0.88% · +156,186 people
People per km² of land, 2023
72
Land area, 2023
248,360 km²
Births, 2023
270,300
Deaths, 2023
92,204
Net migration, 2023
−21,948
Children per woman, 2023
1.82
Median age, 2023
29.4 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
77.4 years
In a city, 2025
55 of every 100
Population, mid-1950
3,516,791
Projected, mid-2050
21,337,238
Projected, mid-2100
19,092,159

ECU · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

peak 2063estimates | projections05 m10 m15 m20 m25 m30 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate   projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range   95% range   medium projection. Every column stands for a single year, counted on 1 January, and the paper rules slice it into cells of equal size.

Show the numbers: Ecuador, 1950–2100
Ecuador: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
YearKindPopulation, 1 Jan95% rangeBirthsDeathsChildren per womanLife expectancy
1950estimate3,472,185158,38969,6146.7248.5
1951estimate3,561,397162,11969,3556.7348.9
1952estimate3,654,262166,12669,6446.7549.2
1953estimate3,750,537170,16470,0876.7649.6
1954estimate3,850,048174,23370,4236.7650.0
1955estimate3,952,964178,35470,7346.7750.4
1956estimate4,059,412182,55170,9216.7650.9
1957estimate4,169,657186,85270,9036.7651.5
1958estimate4,284,061191,28670,7796.7552.1
1959estimate4,402,933195,88370,5356.7452.7
1960estimate4,526,578200,66570,2986.7253.4
1961estimate4,655,204205,63370,0616.7054.0
1962estimate4,789,458210,84269,9006.6854.7
1963estimate4,929,079216,21969,6886.6555.3
1964estimate5,074,352221,74869,4906.6156.0
1965estimate5,225,484227,35369,4406.5656.5
1966estimate5,382,442232,93169,6136.5157.0
1967estimate5,545,055238,49169,8636.4457.5
1968estimate5,713,060243,87170,0456.3558.0
1969estimate5,886,299248,96370,5646.2558.3
1970estimate6,064,174253,75270,2356.1458.9
1971estimate6,246,600258,07470,0766.0159.3
1972estimate6,433,504262,05469,9225.8759.8
1973estimate6,624,564265,64069,6165.7360.3
1974estimate6,819,503268,91969,6435.5860.7
1975estimate7,017,642272,02669,6195.4361.1
1976estimate7,218,859275,04369,6715.2861.4
1977estimate7,422,965278,04668,9575.1361.9
1978estimate7,630,673280,89068,3944.9962.4
1979estimate7,841,661284,02267,8624.8662.9
1980estimate8,056,077287,40767,2844.7363.3
1981estimate8,275,677290,75566,6814.6163.8
1982estimate8,498,143293,75466,1564.5064.3
1983estimate8,724,452297,29065,9484.3964.7
1984estimate8,956,383301,75065,2024.3065.2
1985estimate9,193,181301,18264,7414.1465.6
1986estimate9,429,126301,00563,9194.0066.1
1987estimate9,662,870300,99563,2713.8766.6
1988estimate9,895,709304,02462,8413.7967.0
1989estimate10,125,906309,37661,2473.7467.8
1990estimate10,357,798313,41260,4963.6868.4
1991estimate10,589,548317,92460,2063.6369.0
1992estimate10,815,213320,16760,3763.5869.5
1993estimate11,045,042320,25059,9193.4970.1
1994estimate11,263,506320,47558,6873.4270.9
1995estimate11,480,888323,24458,7953.3871.3
1996estimate11,700,141326,66958,9693.3571.8
1997estimate11,921,758326,14260,1153.2972.0
1998estimate12,140,495326,12462,2003.2372.0
1999estimate12,361,874325,97964,3203.1771.9
2000estimate12,579,716325,41865,5793.1072.1
2001estimate12,798,695324,59965,2313.0472.6
2002estimate13,022,786323,93564,4792.9773.2
2003estimate13,254,158323,34964,4082.9173.6
2004estimate13,490,453322,93165,5042.8573.9
2005estimate13,726,950322,85067,5612.8073.9
2006estimate13,965,375323,53069,3422.7574.0
2007estimate14,206,888323,89570,4762.7074.2
2008estimate14,450,658327,95470,0672.6974.7
2009estimate14,699,747332,50971,6132.6874.9
2010estimate14,952,162329,97972,5762.6275.2
2011estimate15,201,228333,80575,6382.6075.2
2012estimate15,451,225326,14576,3192.5175.5
2013estimate15,693,163310,70476,5972.3675.8
2014estimate15,921,092303,00277,2092.2776.1
2015estimate16,149,157298,60779,1992.2176.2
2016estimate16,383,293290,84682,6082.1276.1
2017estimate16,626,984296,26384,9052.1376.2
2018estimate16,892,055298,75579,2542.1177.3
2019estimate17,207,038293,45882,4142.0477.3
2020estimate17,473,005287,589131,1461.9772.0
2021estimate17,619,124280,840125,6851.9172.8
2022estimate17,745,785274,90395,5821.8676.6
2023estimate17,902,009270,30092,2041.8277.4
2024estimate18,058,157268,76994,4231.8177.6
2025projection18,212,79818.2–18.3 million267,66596,2511.7977.8
2026projection18,366,99418.3–18.5 million267,03198,1551.7877.9
2027projection18,522,01918.3–18.7 million266,500100,1501.7778.1
2028projection18,678,62118.4–18.9 million266,158102,1941.7678.3
2029projection18,835,83018.5–19.2 million265,457104,3971.7578.5
2030projection18,992,36118.6–19.4 million264,848106,6461.7578.7
2031projection19,147,07718.7–19.7 million263,893108,9481.7478.8
2032projection19,298,54618.7–19.9 million262,592111,2871.7379.0
2033projection19,446,45418.8–20.1 million261,453113,8141.7379.2
2034projection19,591,03618.9–20.4 million259,986116,2541.7279.3
2035projection19,731,66818.9–20.6 million258,658118,7921.7279.5
2036projection19,868,58919.0–20.8 million257,292121,3751.7279.7
2037projection20,001,74219.0–21.0 million255,987124,0361.7179.8
2038projection20,131,01519.0–21.2 million254,434126,7521.7180.0
2039projection20,256,13619.1–21.4 million252,374129,5291.7180.2
2040projection20,376,39419.1–21.6 million250,496132,2881.7180.3
2041projection20,492,04619.1–21.8 million248,220134,9841.7080.5
2042projection20,602,85519.2–22.0 million245,984137,7831.7080.7
2043projection20,708,68019.2–22.2 million243,736140,6161.7080.8
2044projection20,809,58119.2–22.4 million241,470143,4781.6981.0
2045projection20,905,36019.2–22.6 million239,193146,4591.6981.1
2046projection20,995,89619.2–22.7 million236,897149,4701.6981.3
2047projection21,081,16519.2–22.9 million234,636152,3741.6981.5
2048projection21,161,18519.2–23.1 million232,275155,3221.6981.6
2049projection21,236,04219.2–23.3 million229,891158,4541.6881.8
2050projection21,305,27019.1–23.4 million227,581161,5221.6881.9
2051projection21,369,20519.1–23.6 million225,151164,5591.6882.1
2052projection21,427,54819.1–23.8 million222,880167,5961.6882.2
2053projection21,480,69419.1–23.9 million220,942170,7491.6882.4
2054projection21,528,69219.0–24.1 million219,142173,9551.6882.5
2055projection21,571,73218.9–24.2 million217,416177,1871.6782.7
2056projection21,609,76618.9–24.4 million215,894180,5511.6782.8
2057projection21,642,89118.8–24.5 million214,258183,7891.6782.9
2058projection21,671,21418.7–24.7 million212,485187,1551.6783.1
2059projection21,694,46718.6–24.9 million211,090190,4291.6783.2
2060projection21,712,98418.5–25.0 million209,697193,8171.6783.4
2061projection21,726,75218.4–25.2 million208,366196,9951.6783.5
2062projection21,735,89518.3–25.3 million207,071200,5021.6683.6
2063projection21,740,36218.2–25.4 million205,682203,8701.6683.8
2064projection21,740,09918.1–25.5 million204,322207,2401.6683.9
2065projection21,735,09217.9–25.6 million202,982210,7081.6684.0
2066projection21,725,28417.8–25.7 million202,009213,9171.6684.2
2067projection21,711,35317.6–25.8 million200,593217,1761.6684.3
2068projection21,692,79917.4–26.0 million199,367220,3801.6684.4
2069projection21,669,66917.3–26.1 million197,844223,6481.6684.5
2070projection21,641,83017.2–26.3 million196,269226,8651.6584.7
2071projection21,609,07417.0–26.3 million194,723230,0441.6584.8
2072projection21,571,77216.8–26.4 million193,166233,1671.6584.9
2073projection21,529,80416.7–26.6 million191,483236,2301.6585.0
2074projection21,483,10716.5–26.7 million190,096239,2531.6585.2
2075projection21,431,91416.3–26.8 million188,513241,8641.6585.3
2076projection21,376,64816.2–26.9 million186,669244,5431.6585.4
2077projection21,316,89016.0–27.0 million185,162247,2841.6585.5
2078projection21,252,71515.8–27.1 million183,395249,9151.6585.6
2079projection21,184,34515.6–27.2 million181,952252,2791.6585.7
2080projection21,111,96415.4–27.3 million180,435254,5141.6585.8
2081projection21,036,07115.2–27.4 million178,920256,4571.6586.0
2082projection20,956,66515.0–27.4 million177,592258,2681.6586.1
2083projection20,874,13714.8–27.5 million176,264260,1241.6586.2
2084projection20,788,49214.6–27.6 million174,812261,6501.6586.3
2085projection20,699,95114.4–27.6 million173,477262,8821.6586.4
2086projection20,608,66914.2–27.6 million172,039264,3011.6586.5
2087projection20,514,49814.0–27.7 million170,685265,1221.6586.7
2088projection20,418,21113.8–27.8 million169,360265,8621.6586.8
2089projection20,319,87313.5–27.8 million168,039266,6211.6586.9
2090projection20,219,47613.3–27.9 million166,696267,0821.6487.0
2091projection20,117,34613.1–27.9 million165,433267,4381.6487.1
2092projection20,013,55212.9–27.9 million164,325267,7271.6487.2
2093projection19,908,39412.7–28.0 million163,405267,8621.6587.3
2094projection19,802,22612.5–28.0 million162,569268,0621.6587.4
2095projection19,695,09012.2–27.9 million161,516267,8751.6587.5
2096projection19,587,06412.0–27.8 million160,644267,6171.6587.6
2097projection19,478,24711.8–27.8 million159,512267,3281.6587.7
2098projection19,368,70211.6–27.9 million158,367266,7711.6587.8
2099projection19,258,57311.4–28.1 million157,382266,4101.6587.9
2100projection19,147,72711.2–28.2 million156,313265,7211.6588.0
Show the numbers: Ecuador, mid-2026, by single year of age
Ecuador: population by single year of age, mid-2026
AgeMaleFemale
0135,202129,562
1135,146129,574
2135,572129,916
3136,951131,158
4139,364133,488
5142,388136,414
6145,736139,667
7149,106142,930
8150,266144,068
9148,387142,302
10148,888142,812
11151,711145,541
12154,420148,169
13159,847153,398
14165,248158,584
15165,778159,130
16164,960158,392
17163,889157,426
18161,133154,863
19159,402153,314
20158,510152,632
21157,782152,138
22157,413152,014
23157,231152,101
24157,126152,303
25157,071152,604
26156,980152,901
27156,719153,001
28156,262152,875
29155,767152,762
30154,350151,764
31152,091149,854
32150,507148,561
33149,517147,808
34148,012146,496
35145,414144,128
36142,374141,332
37139,090138,274
38135,971135,365
39133,964133,556
40132,510132,370
41130,969131,228
42128,228128,952
43124,483125,650
44121,041122,586
45117,685119,514
46114,294116,345
47110,987113,233
48107,854110,270
49104,872107,418
50101,981104,646
5199,152101,970
5296,36099,342
5393,57696,738
5490,77494,152
5587,94891,562
5685,06688,936
5782,13486,278
5879,18183,612
5976,24380,919
6073,33478,219
6170,43075,496
6267,52572,726
6364,63469,956
6461,76267,224
6558,93364,550
6656,16261,938
6753,45259,398
6850,82156,927
6948,27654,497
7045,78452,090
7143,31449,702
7240,85347,335
7338,38544,978
7435,90242,613
7533,42840,258
7631,18738,075
7728,50735,330
7825,06731,666
7922,04228,406
8019,79626,066
8117,73223,924
8215,60821,656
8313,48919,328
8411,46517,038
859,60614,877
867,92212,849
876,40810,933
885,1019,198
894,0167,694
903,1176,376
912,3735,204
921,7684,180
931,2833,292
949042,528
956171,894
964091,384
97263984
98164680
9998454
100+126748

ECU · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Ecuador, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

ECU · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Ecuador

On the UN's projection, Ecuador will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2048: 14,043,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 12,029,100.

100 aged 15–64
37 children
12 aged 65+

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 24 years: 2023–2046.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: one stripe a year from 1950 to 2100. A stripe takes colour in a year when fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people of working age, and stays grey otherwise; hatching means the year is projected.

How every country compares

ECU · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Ecuador, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Ecuador loses 21,405 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 3,842 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 500 people a year
020406080+

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

Across the counted years, 1950 to 2023, its biggest single-year gain was 95,482 (2018); its biggest loss, 47,287 (1997).

In 2024, 747,749 people living in Ecuador had been born in another country, 4 of every 100 people there, against 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

ECU · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Ecuador

Of every 100 babies born in Ecuador in 2023, 17 had a mother under 20, 69 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 14 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 11 under 20 and 19 aged 35 or older.

1950
11 · 70 · 19
2023
17 · 69 · 14
2050 · projected
10 · 69 · 21

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023
270,300
Average age when women have a baby
27.4 years
29.7 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19
56
98 in 1950
Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100
Babies born in Ecuador by the mother's age
Mother's age19501975200020232050 projected2100 projected
10–146761,9082,8602,23692984
15–1916,07937,05359,11342,77722,6925,191
20–2440,99676,35198,47269,11244,22920,435
25–2940,10467,83874,54567,87858,19744,091
30–3429,87845,99250,12651,21555,00949,310
35–3921,07528,85528,37028,33636,11129,751
40–448,01111,87410,7208,22010,0817,185
45–491,5042,0721,185526333266
50–54668327000
All babies158,389272,026325,418270,300227,581156,313

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

ECU · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Ecuador

In Ecuador, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 64.3 (95% range 63.6–65.1), out of 74.0 in all. That leaves 9.7 years in less than full health, close to the world's 9.5.

Women

66.1 in full health, 11.1 not: 77.2 years

Men

62.8 in full health, 8.2 not: 71.0 years

a year in full health   a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 66.1 healthy years of 77.2. Men: 62.8 of 71.0. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 67.6.

ECU · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Ecuador

At the end of 2025, Ecuador was hosting 467,887 people who had crossed a border into it, about 26 of every 1,000 people living there.

  1. hosted from abroad467,887
  2. Ecuador nationals abroad127,783

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: one square stands for 10,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Ecuador living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 9,745 people asked for asylum in Ecuador for the first time; 41,104 people from Ecuador asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Ecuador whose claims were decided that year, 13 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

ECU · of every 100 people

How people live in Ecuador

Of every 100 people in Ecuador in 2025, 55 lived in a city, 24 in a town or suburb and 21 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

1.5 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 22.8 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

ECU · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Ecuador went in school

Of every 100 adults in Ecuador in 2020, 7 never went to school and 41 finished upper secondary or went further.

7 never went to school 14 some primary 24 finished primary 14 finished lower secondary 22 finished upper secondary 19 studied after school

Among women, 2.5 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 11.2 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 2.8 against 8.5.

The middle projection has its working-age people most numerous in 2050; those among them who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2065.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

ECU · cities · 2025

Cities in Ecuador

Ecuador had 32 cities in 2025, home to 10.0 million people. The largest, Guayaquil, holds 17 of every 100 people in Ecuador.

  1. Guayaquil3,157,825
  2. Quito2,534,914
  3. Cuenca482,272
  4. Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas356,829
  5. Manta287,756
  6. Ambato274,672
  7. Machala260,690
  8. Salinas [Santa Elena]260,161
  9. Portoviejo228,823
  10. Quevedo186,130

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Ecuador are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.