Ecuador vs Panama: Gini coefficient

Ecuador

0.4592

in 2025

Panama

0.4973

in 2024

Ecuador rank

9th

Panama rank

6th

Gini coefficient over time

Panama currently reports 0.4973 against 0.4592 in Ecuador, a difference of 0.0381.

That makes Panama's figure about 1.1 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 3 times across 22 shared years of data; in 1999 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 9th and Panama ranks 6th of 120 countries.

Indicator: Gini coefficient
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 120 places, 2,148 data points, 1963–2025
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

The Gini coefficient measures inequality on a scale from 0 to 1. Higher values indicate higher inequality.