World population/Ecuador
South America
Population of Ecuador
18,444,504
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#72
world rank
0.22%
of world population
+0.85%
yearly change
+155,815
people this year
267,031
births a year
98,155
deaths a year
How the figure for Ecuador is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Ecuador at 18,444,504 on 1 July 2026, and projects 18,600,319 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Ecuador at number 72 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.22 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 267,031 births and 98,155 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.