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Ecuador

18,289,896

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+154.42K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+44.1%from 12.69M
Life expectancy77.6 years2024
Fertility rate1.81births per woman · 2024
Urban population63.4%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Ecuador is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1423.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6467.5%Working-age population
Ages 65+8.6%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate14.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.2deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+9.6births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-17.22Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Ecuador look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 21.34M in 2050—17.7% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202418.14M
  2. 205021.34M
  3. 210019.09M
Median age in 205039.5years
Births in 2050227.58Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050161.52Kduring the year
Life expectancy81.9years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19604.59M
  2. 19706.16M
  3. 19808.17M
  4. 199010.47M
  5. 200012.69M
  6. 201015.08M
  7. 202017.55M
  8. 202518.29M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/19/2026

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