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Brazil vs Ecuador
How Brazil and Ecuador compare on 39 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Ecuador was higher: 77.4 years against 75.9 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Brazil was higher: $9,748 against $6,165
- Population · In 2023, Brazil was higher: 211 million people against 18 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Ecuador was higher: 2.1% of GDP against 1.05% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Ecuador was higher: 2.65 tonnes against 2.32 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyBrazil: 75.9 years in 2023Ecuador: 77.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBrazil: 1.4 per 100 live births in 2024Ecuador: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBrazil: 12.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Ecuador: 9.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterBrazil: 87.3% in 2022Ecuador: 67.1% in 2022
- DepressionBrazil: 3.3% in 2017Ecuador: 2.98% in 2017
- Suicide rateBrazil: 6.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Ecuador: 9.2 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBrazil: 211 million people in 2023Ecuador: 18 million people in 2023
- Population growthBrazil: 0.41% a year in 2023Ecuador: 0.87% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBrazil: 1.62 births per woman in 2023Ecuador: 1.82 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBrazil: 88.2% in 2025Ecuador: 63.4% in 2025
- Median ageBrazil: 33.9 years in 2023Ecuador: 28.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBrazil: 10.6% in 2023Ecuador: 8.1% in 2023
- Net migration rateBrazil: -1.1 per 1,000 people in 2023Ecuador: -1.2 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBrazil: 1.05% of GDP in 2025Ecuador: 2.1% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBrazil: $23.6B in 2025Ecuador: $2.71B in 2025
- Military spending per personBrazil: $113 in 2025Ecuador: $150 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBrazil: 2.2% of government spending in 2025Ecuador: 5.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBrazil: 762,000 people in 2020Ecuador: 42,000 people in 2020
- National powerBrazil: 2.01% of world capability in 2022Ecuador: 0.15% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBrazil: 0.76% of the labour force in 2020Ecuador: 0.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBrazil: 462 million TIV in 2025Ecuador: 30 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exportsBrazil: 153 million TIV in 2025Ecuador: 2 million TIV in 2018
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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