Australia’s coastline is 12 times as long as Ecuador’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 4,039 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 20% of Ecuador

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Ecuador: 20.3% (2024)

Australia has 51% more people than Ecuador

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025)

Ecuador is 21 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 9.3 years older than in Ecuador

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023)

Women in Ecuador have 0.3 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 8.6% in Ecuador

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Ecuador: 8.6% (2025)

Ecuador hosts 19% more refugees per resident than Australia

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Ecuador: 0 (2026)

Australia and Ecuador are practically level

Australia: 1 (2026) · Ecuador: 1 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 14 times the size of Ecuador’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Ecuador: $130 billion (2025)

Australia produces 4.3 times as much per person as Ecuador

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in Australia (Gini 12.1 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Ecuador: 45.9 (2025)

3.4% of people in Ecuador live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Ecuador: 3.4% (2025)

Unemployment is 4.1% in Australia, versus 3.3% in Ecuador

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Ecuador: 3.3% (2025)

Ecuador and Australia are practically level

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Ecuador: 2.1% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Ecuador’s 13%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Ecuador: 13.1% (2022)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 2.1× Ecuador’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Ecuador: 43% (2025)

Australia spends 14 times as much on health per person as Ecuador

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Ecuador: $509 (2023)

A baby in Ecuador is 3.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 77% more doctors per person than Ecuador

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020)

Australia has 2.9 times as many hospital beds per person as Ecuador

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Australia is 2.3 times that in Ecuador

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 29% in Ecuador

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Ecuador: 28.7% (2024)

12% of adults in Australia smoke, versus 10% in Ecuador

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Ecuador: 10.1% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.77 points higher than in Ecuador

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Ecuador: 6.14 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 3.3 times as much alcohol as in Ecuador

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023)

Australia has 2.1 times as much meat per person as Ecuador

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023)

Australia has 941 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023)

Workers in Australia put in 17 more hours a year than in Ecuador

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 3.9 years longer than in Ecuador

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Ecuador: 9 years (2023)

Australia has 16 more World Heritage sites than Ecuador (21 against 5)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Ecuador: 5 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 77% in Ecuador

Australia: 96% (2024) · Ecuador: 77% (2024)

Home internet in Ecuador is 11% faster than in Australia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 99% in Ecuador

Australia: 100% (2024) · Ecuador: 98.5% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 63% in Ecuador

Australia: 88% (2025) · Ecuador: 63% (2025)

Australia has 113 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Australia: 113 (2024) · Ecuador: 102 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 34 times as long as Ecuador’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Ecuador: 965 km (2022)

Airlines from Australia fly 10 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ecuador

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Ecuador: 0.25 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Ecuador, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Ecuador: 49.7% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 5.7 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ecuador

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024)

79% of Ecuador’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Ecuador: 79.4% (2025)

The air in Ecuador carries 3.3 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 54 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ecuador are 4.1 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023)

Australia is on average 1.2 °C warmer than Ecuador

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 7.2 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg)