COUNTRY / INDICATOR
Ecuador Poverty Headcount
Ecuador poverty headcount: latest available value for 2025, historical series from 2016, ranking context and source documentation.
Series overview
SI.POV.NAHC| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21,40 | -6,60 |
| 2024 | 28,00 | 2,00 |
| 2023 | 26,00 | 0,80 |
| 2022 | 25,20 | -2,50 |
| 2021 | 27,70 | -5,30 |
| 2020 | 33,00 | 8,00 |
| 2019 | 25,00 | 1,80 |
| 2018 | 23,20 | 1,70 |
| 2017 | 21,50 | -1,40 |
| 2016 | 22,90 | — |
Source methodology
World Development IndicatorsIndicator note: National poverty headcount ratio is the percentage of the population living below the national poverty line(s). National estimates are based on population-weighted subgroup estimates from household surveys. For economies for which the data are from EU-SILC, the reported year is the income reference year, which is the year before the survey year.
Source organization: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform. Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines., World Bank (WB), note: Data are compiled from official government sources or are computed by World Bank staff using national (i.e. country–specific) poverty lines.
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Country-specific interpretation
Automatically derived from the displayed seriesEcuador recorded 21,40 percent in 2025, the latest year available in this series.
Compared with 2024, the poverty headcount decreased by 6,60.
Across the latest five-year comparison window, the series shows an downward direction.
Across 10 observations from 2016 to 2025, the average was 25,39; the minimum was 21,40 in 2025 and the maximum was 33,00 in 2020.
Ecuador ranks 77 out of 160 countries with a current value in the portal ranking.
The latest value is below the available average for Latin America & Caribbean.
It is also above the available average for the Upper middle income group.
Extent of poverty under national definitions.