Ecuador Poverty Rate 1987-2025

Ecuador poverty rate for 2023 was 29.60%, a 0.3% decline from 2022.
  • Ecuador poverty rate for 2022 was 29.90%, a 1.8% decline from 2021.
  • Ecuador poverty rate for 2021 was 31.70%, a 2.9% decline from 2020.
  • Ecuador poverty rate for 2020 was 34.60%, a 4.9% increase from 2019.
Poverty headcount ratio at $5.50 a day is the percentage of the population living on less than $5.50 a day at 2011 international prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions.