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.
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)
- 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)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 15.1% (2022)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.358 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 14.2% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.1015 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.1015 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1252 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.3061 (2023)
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.