Ecuador
Republic of Ecuador
- Capital
- Quito
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 18 million
- Currency
- USD
- Area
- 276,841 km²
Across Ecuador's 29 priced cities, one person needs about $962 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $603.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
65out of 100
- Purchasing power25%45
- Safety20%38
- Health care15%78
- Climate10%95
- Air quality10%91
- Connectivity10%80
- Cost10%78
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #37
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
32.8
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
10.4
New York = 100
Purchasing power
71.6
New York = 100
One person
$962
A month, rent included
Net salary
$603
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$469
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$7,125
2025
Growth
+3.7%
2025
Unemployment
3.3%
2025
Inflation
0.7%
2025
Life expectancy
77.6 years
2024
Internet users
77%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 37%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 22%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 15%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 35%
- SourceWikipedia
- Social security, employee
- 9.5%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Inheritance tax
- 35%
- SourceWikipedia
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 38.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 61.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 45.7
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #30 worldwide
- 219
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #74 worldwide
- 64
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +63%
Cities in Ecuador
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Quevedo | 68 | 33.2 | — | — | — | 213.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 2Latacunga | 67 | 29.0 | $120 | — | — | 205.6K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 3Ambato | 67 | 24.3 | $180 | $667 | 139.8 | 387.3K | Medium confidence, 8 contributors |
| 4Ibarra | 66 | 24.9 | $225 | $609 | 116.2 | 221.1K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 5Loja | 66 | 24.9 | $238 | $491 | 91.8 | 274.1K | Medium confidence, 18 contributors |
| 6Cuenca | 65 | 27.6 | $492 | $551 | 69.4 | 637K | High confidence, 43 contributors |
| 7Daule | 65 | 33.2 | — | — | — | 173.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 8Santo Domingo | 64 | 27.8 | $150 | $400 | 80.6 | 458.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 9Milagro | 64 | — | — | — | — | 133.5K | Low confidence |
| 10Machala | 63 | 25.7 | $190 | $450 | 89.3 | 289.1K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 11Eloy Alfaro | 62 | — | — | — | — | 315.7K | Low confidence |
| 12Riobamba | 62 | 23.3 | $115 | $334 | 82.0 | 264K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 13Manta | 62 | 25.4 | $300 | $481 | 80.6 | 264.3K | Medium confidence, 11 contributors |
| 14Esmeraldas | 62 | 30.1 | $200 | $450 | 78.8 | 218.7K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 15Quito | 60 | 33.6 | $483 | $603 | 69.8 | 2.8M | High confidence, 50 contributors |
| 16Portoviejo | 59 | 32.2 | $300 | $325 | 47.4 | 321.8K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 17Guayaquil | 57 | 32.8 | $469 | $603 | 71.6 | 2.7M | High confidence, 31 contributors |
| 18Puerto Ayora | 57 | 35.1 | — | $800 | 112.5 | 12.7K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 19Tena | 57 | 32.5 | $200 | — | — | 17.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 20Banos | 57 | 27.2 | — | — | — | 9.5K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 21Zamora | 56 | 28.3 | — | — | — | 15.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 22Manglaralto | 56 | 31.8 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 23Pasaje | 56 | 32.1 | — | — | — | 44.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 24Ventanas | 56 | 32.2 | — | — | — | 38.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 25Bahia de Caraquez | 56 | 32.1 | — | — | — | 37.1K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 26Tulcán | 56 | 33.2 | — | — | — | 86.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 27Cayambe | 56 | 33.2 | — | — | — | 26.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 28Cumbaya | 56 | 33.2 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 29Cotacachi | 54 | 25.4 | $267 | $433 | 76.4 | 8.2K | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 30Salinas | 53 | 26.1 | $400 | $525 | 75.8 | 43.9K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 31Vilcabamba | 52 | 29.0 | $383 | $455 | 63.5 | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 32Babahoyo | 51 | — | — | — | — | 76.3K | Low confidence |
| 33La Libertad | 51 | — | $300 | $450 | — | 75.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 34Chone | 51 | — | — | — | — | 44.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |