Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador
Ecuador: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 84.6% in 2025. ▼ Falling
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador, 1994–2025
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2025, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador stood at 84.6%. That is the lowest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 3.0% on the previous year and down 0.7% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador peaked at 96.6% in 2000 and was at its lowest, 84.6%, in 2025.
Ecuador ranks 66th of 120 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 26 years of available data.
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador, year by year
| Year | % | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 95.0% | — |
| 1999 | 95.3% | +0.3% |
| 2000 | 96.6% | +1.3% |
| 2003 | 92.9% | -3.8% |
| 2004 | 93.8% | +0.9% |
| 2005 | 91.1% | -2.9% |
| 2006 | 90.3% | -0.9% |
| 2007 | 89.3% | -1.1% |
| 2008 | 89.3% | +0.0% |
| 2009 | 90.6% | +1.4% |
| 2010 | 88.6% | -2.2% |
| 2011 | 87.4% | -1.3% |
| 2012 | 86.3% | -1.3% |
| 2013 | 85.5% | -0.9% |
| 2014 | 85.8% | +0.3% |
| 2015 | 85.1% | -0.7% |
| 2016 | 86.1% | +1.2% |
| 2017 | 85.2% | -1.1% |
| 2018 | 84.7% | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 85.4% | +0.8% |
| 2020 | 88.7% | +3.8% |
| 2021 | 86.6% | -2.3% |
| 2022 | 85.8% | -1.0% |
| 2023 | 86.2% | +0.5% |
| 2024 | 87.2% | +1.1% |
| 2025 | 84.6% | -3.0% |
Ecuador compared with similar countries
- Ecuador's 84.6% is below the median for upper middle income countries, which is 90.5%, 93% of the median. (35 countries reporting)
- Ecuador's 84.6% is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 84.3%, 1.0× the median. (18 countries reporting)
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 95.2% | 95.0% | 95.3% | 2 |
| 2000s | 91.7% | 89.3% | 96.6% | 8 |
| 2010s | 86.0% | 84.7% | 88.6% | 10 |
| 2020s | 86.5% | 84.6% | 88.7% | 6 |
Countries ranked near Ecuador
More poverty & inequality data for Ecuador
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 10 surveys (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per person (2025)
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via 0 surveys per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.82 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,007 kg per hectare (2024)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2024)
- Cereal yield vs extreme poverty, annual growth rate -0.4522 % change on previous year (2024)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, gaps filled 15.13 (2022)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 15.1% (2022)
- Tax revenues vs income inequality, per unit of GDP 0 units per US$ of GDP (2022)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Ecuador was 84.6% in 2025, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Ecuador?
- The highest recorded value was 96.6% in 2000.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Ecuador?
- The lowest recorded value was 84.6% in 2025.
- How does Ecuador rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Ecuador ranks 66th out of 120 countries with data for 2025.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Ecuador?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.7%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Ecuador data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $30 per day.