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IndicatorECUEcuadorLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #78
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile32.2rank #149
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.37rank #72
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.27rank #88
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.71rank #73
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile47.1rank #116
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #78
Military spending% GDP2.2%rank #45
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.46rank #45
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile53.6rank #161
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile44.7rank #148
Rule of Law0-100 percentile40.4rank #163
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.37rank #100
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.61rank #57
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.39rank #73
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile55rank #104
Women in parliament% seats45%rank #13
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.79rank #65
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment32.5%rank #52
Agriculture value added% GDP9.7%rank #59
Annual working hours per workerhours1,593.8rank #109
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker130,448.3rank #90
Current account balance% GDP5.9%rank #12
Employment-to-population ratio%62.5%rank #51
External debt stocks% GNI49.7%rank #71
FDI net inflows% GDP1%rank #67
GDPcurrent US$130.32Brank #63
GDP growth%3.7%rank #81
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$7,125.3rank #97
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $14,319.2rank #105
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $13,986.4rank #103
Government expenditure% GDP30.4%rank #50
Gross capital formation% GDP20.9%rank #85
Gross savings% GDP27.1%rank #21
High-technology exports% manuf. exports10%rank #57
Human capital indexindex2.8rank #75
Industry value added% GDP25.7%rank #66
Inflation%0.71%rank #28
Labour force participation rate%64.4%rank #66
Personal remittances received% GDP5.9%rank #26
R&D expenditure% GDP0.44%rank #54
Researchers in R&Dper million400.3rank #60
Tax revenue% GDP13.1%rank #87
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.44rank #95
Trade openness% GDP59.4%rank #93
Unemployment% labor force3.3%rank #51
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%3%rank #42
Vulnerable employment% employment50.1%rank #131
Youth unemployment% ages 15-248.2%rank #50
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-247.6%rank #47
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop92.1%rank #110
Basic sanitation access% pop91.2%rank #93
Child mortalityper 1001.3rank #59
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal2,620.9rank #138
DTP3 immunization coverage%70%rank #30
Health spending% GDP7.6%rank #69
Infant mortalityper 1k births10.9rank #55
Life expectancyyears77.6rank #79
Maternal mortalityper 100k55rank #40
Measles immunization% children74%rank #26
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%74%rank #26
Physiciansper 1k2.3rank #65
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m318.6rank #107
Road traffic deathsper 100k20.1rank #81
Smoking prevalence% adults10.1%rank #24
Suicide mortality rateper 100k7.6rank #89
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k66rank #84
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births12.9rank #89
Undernourishment% pop12.1%rank #42
Education
Adult literacy%93.5%rank #17
Education spending% GDP3.7%rank #27
Expected years of schoolingyears14.9rank #70
Mean years of schoolingyears9rank #111
Primary completion rate% relevant age100.2%rank #34
Primary enrollment% gross97.2%rank #112
Secondary enrollment% gross92.8%rank #76
Tertiary enrollment% gross67.9%rank #45
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00014.8rank #105
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.8rank #116
Median age of populationyears28.4rank #125
Net migration rateper 1,000-1.2rank #145
Populationpeople18.29Mrank #70
Population growth%0.85%rank #111
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years81.9rank #77
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands21,337.2rank #74
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age49.5rank #155
Urban population%63.4%rank #102
Climate
CO₂ emissionst45.98Mrank #58
CO₂ per capitat2.5rank #114
Electricity access% pop98.5%rank #11
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation77.9%rank #7
Electricity from solar% generation0.11%rank #85
Electricity from wind% generation0.52%rank #72
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,675.6rank #90
Forest area% land49.5%rank #55
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita5rank #97
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh159rank #27
Renewable electricity%79.4%rank #15
Renewable energy share%18.9%rank #101
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e89rank #128
Society
Asylum seekerspeople122,060rank #165
Extreme poverty% pop3.4%rank #3
Female labor participation%52.4%rank #101
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10017.2rank #79
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #26
Gender Inequality Index0-10.36rank #80
Gini indexindex45.9rank #4
Homicide rateper 100k45.7rank #80
Human Development Index0-10.78rank #70
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.64rank #64
Internet users% pop77.2%rank #103
Life satisfaction0-106.1rank #57
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.74rank #32
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #107
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.01rank #73
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.06rank #105
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.2rank #115
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people26,428rank #77
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people5,723rank #102
Youth NEET rate%18.9%rank #96
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year2rank #2
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths478rank #28
Hazard & exposure0-107rank #59
Human hazard & exposure0-107.4rank #55
INFORM risk score0-105.5rank #44
Lack of coping capacity0-105rank #41
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-103.2rank #28
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-106.4rank #43
Natural hazard & exposure0-106.5rank #51
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year439rank #30
Socio-economic vulnerability0-103.6rank #37
Vulnerability0-104.8rank #37
Vulnerable groups0-105.8rank #52
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