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Chile vs Ecuador
How Chile and Ecuador compare on 39 measures, from 1789 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Chile was higher: 81.2 years against 77.4 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Chile was higher: $14,900 against $6,165
- Population · In 2023, Chile was higher: 19.7 million people against 18 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Ecuador was higher: 2.1% of GDP against 1.52% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Chile was higher: 3.94 tonnes against 2.65 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyChile: 81.2 years in 2023Ecuador: 77.4 years in 2023
- Child mortalityChile: 0.7 per 100 live births in 2024Ecuador: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityChile: 4.1 per 1,000 live births in 2023Ecuador: 9.6 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterChile: 98.8% in 2022Ecuador: 67.1% in 2022
- DepressionChile: 4.06% in 2017Ecuador: 2.98% in 2017
- Suicide rateChile: 10.1 per 100,000 people in 2017Ecuador: 9.2 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationChile: 19.7 million people in 2023Ecuador: 18 million people in 2023
- Population growthChile: 0.57% a year in 2023Ecuador: 0.87% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateChile: 1.17 births per woman in 2023Ecuador: 1.82 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationChile: 89.2% in 2025Ecuador: 63.4% in 2025
- Median ageChile: 36 years in 2023Ecuador: 28.4 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overChile: 13.7% in 2023Ecuador: 8.1% in 2023
- Net migration rateChile: 3.2 per 1,000 people in 2023Ecuador: -1.2 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingChile: 1.52% of GDP in 2025Ecuador: 2.1% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsChile: $5.15B in 2025Ecuador: $2.71B in 2025
- Military spending per personChile: $269 in 2025Ecuador: $150 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingChile: 5.7% of government spending in 2025Ecuador: 5.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelChile: 114,000 people in 2020Ecuador: 42,000 people in 2020
- National powerChile: 0.23% of world capability in 2022Ecuador: 0.15% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersChile: 1.28% of the labour force in 2020Ecuador: 0.54% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsChile: 14 million TIV in 2025Ecuador: 30 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exportsChile: 8 million TIV in 2022Ecuador: 2 million TIV in 2018
Climate
Technology and environment
Each country on its own
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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