Ecuador
Republic of Ecuador
- Region
- Americas · South America
- Capital
- Quito
- Population
- 18,289,896 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- United States dollar (USD)
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish (Castilian; official) 98.6%, indigenous 3.9% (Quechua 3.2%, other indigenous 0.7%), foreign 2.8%, other 0.6% (includes Ecuadorian sign language) (2022 est.)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 276,841 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, Mercosur (associate), OPEC, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Colombia , Peru
Political stability
54 / 100
Economic stability
52 / 100
Population stability
83 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- crude petroleum, shellfish, bananas, fish, gold (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, coal tar oil, cars, packaged medicine, plastics (2023)
- Natural resources
- petroleum, fish, timber, hydropower
- Primary route
- Atlantic services to Europe and North America
- Secondary route
- Asia services via the Panama Canal or Cape of Good Hope
The xin.bz view
- Ecuador's ~$4.7B half-year shrimp engine absorbs Peru's fishmeal-driven feed-cost shock directly, while cocoa export value fell sharply and El Niño rainfall threatens plantations, roads, ponds, and power.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño: What the Media Has Wrong — and What It Means for Global Trade
The 2026–27 El Niño is on track to be one of the strongest on record. A quarter-by-quarter outlook of where supply falls, where it rises, and which trade corridors cannot adjust fast enough.
El Niño Is Reordering South America's Export Map
El Niño makes South America the world's replacement supplier — record Brazilian crops, Argentine rainfall gains, Peru's fishmeal shock, and the logistics that decide who can move it.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Fish Meal Is the High-Protein Feed Commodity Whose Global Supply Can Turn on One Peruvian Fishery
Fish meal deep dive — Peru's anchovy fishery supplies ~20% of a 5.1M t market, the 2026 season stopped at 25% of quota under a 120-day national emergency, China takes 78% of exports, and prices hit $2,105/mt.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.