- ISO 3166
EC- Primary locale
es-EC- Currency
- USD · US Dollar
- Region
- LATAM · South America
Ecuador
Ecuador has 18.3M people, and 14.1M of them are online. Spanish is the most widely spoken language at 96%, one of 3 languages CLDR lists here. Spanish and Quechua are official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to es-EC.
At a glance
Each figure is drawn against the rest of the world, so a number means something before you have any other market to compare it with.
People online
14.1M
0%world median 81%100%
77% of 18.3M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. CLDR population multiplied by that share, so read it as an estimate rather than a headcount.
Income per person
$7,125
Higher than 45% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to what people can spend, not what your product will earn.
Can pay online
65%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
3
Spanish 96% · Quechua 17% · Chimborazo Highland Quichua 6%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 2 of them are official nationally.
English proficiency
466
Very lowVery high
Low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers, so treat it as colour for a discussion. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
92%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before it shifts toward another language.
What people speak
Shares count first and second languages, so they sum past 100% and one bilingual person is counted twice.
Most spoken in Ecuador
share of 18.3M people
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Every bar is drawn against the largest language rather than against 100%, so a 1% language stays visible.
One country understates a language. CLDR records diaspora too, so a language usually reaches further than any single page shows. The language profiles show each one's full footprint.
What you would ship
Configuration for day one, computed live with Intl.* against es-EC, the dominant locale for this market.
Plural categories
3
Standard. Use Intl.PluralRules for the few cases that matter.
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
Standard. Use dir='auto' on user-generated content fields.
Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/4/26
Time
6:30 p. m.
Week starts Mon
Currency
$1.234,56
1,234.56 in USD · US Dollar