India’s coastline is 3.1 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · India: 7,000 km (2026 edition)

India’s highest peak towers 2,319 m above Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · India: 8,586 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 60% of India, versus 20% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · India: 59.9% (2024)

India has 80 times as many people as Ecuador

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · India: 1.46 billion (2025)

India is 6.7 times as densely populated as Ecuador

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · India: 492 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Ecuador is 0.35 years older than in India

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · India: 28.1 years (2023)

Women in India have 0.2 more children on average than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · India: 1.96 children per woman (2024)

8.6% of people in Ecuador are 65 or older, versus 7.4% in India

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · India: 7.4% (2025)

Ecuador hosts 8.9 times as many refugees per resident as India

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · India: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025)

India has produced 0.1 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · India: 0.1 (2026)

India has 3 official languages, Ecuador 1

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · India: 3 (2026)

India’s economy is 30 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · India: $3.96 trillion (2025)

Ecuador produces 43% more per person than India

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · India: Int$11,748 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in India (Gini 22.9 points higher)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · India: 23 (2023)

3.4% of people in Ecuador live on less than $3 a day, versus 2.6% in India

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · India: 2.6% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.2% in India, versus 3.3% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · India: 4.2% (2025)

India and Ecuador are practically level

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · India: 2.3% (2025)

Ecuador’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, India’s 6.9%

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · India: 6.9% (2022)

Ecuador’s price level (US = 100) is 1.8× India’s

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · India: 23% (2025)

Ecuador spends 6 times as much on health per person as India

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · India: $85 (2023)

A baby in India is 2.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · India: 23.3 per 1,000 (2024)

Ecuador has 3.2 times as many doctors per person as India

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · India: 0.7 per 1,000 (2020)

India has 20% more hospital beds per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023) · India: 1.6 per 1,000 (2021)

The suicide rate in India is 2.8 times that in Ecuador

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · India: 15.3 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Ecuador are obese, versus 8.0% in India

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · India: 8% (2024)

23% of adults in India smoke, versus 10% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · India: 22.6% (2024)

People in Ecuador rate their lives 1.61 points higher than in India

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · India: 4.54 (2025)

Adults in India drink 63% more alcohol than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · India: 5.2 litres (2023)

Ecuador has 6.9 times as much meat per person as India

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · India: 8.1 kg (2023)

India has 48 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · India: 2,669 kcal (2023)

Workers in India put in 789 more hours a year than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · India: 2,383 hours (2023)

Adults in Ecuador went to school 2.1 years longer than in India

Ecuador: 9 years (2023) · India: 6.9 years (2023)

Ecuador: no data · India: 0.01 (2024)

India has 40 more World Heritage sites than Ecuador (45 against 5)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · India: 45 (2026)

India has won 41 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · India: 41 (2026 edition)

77% of people in Ecuador are online, versus 70% in India

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · India: 70% (2025)

Home internet in Ecuador is 3.2 times as fast as in India

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · India: 91 Mbps (2026)

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

Ecuador: 98.5% (2024) · India: 99.9% (2024)

63% of people in Ecuador live in cities, versus 36% in India

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · India: 36% (2025)

Ecuador has 102 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, India 79

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · India: 79 (2024)

India’s railway network is 71 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · India: 68,103 km (2021)

Airlines from Ecuador fly 2 times as many passengers per resident as those from India

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · India: 0.12 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Ecuador, but only 24% of India

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · India: 24.4% (2024)

The average person in Ecuador emits 15% more CO₂ than someone in India

Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024) · India: 2.2 t (2024)

79% of Ecuador’s electricity is renewable, versus 24% in India

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · India: 24.1% (2025)

The air in India carries 2.5 times as much fine dust as in Ecuador

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · India: 44.2 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 16 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in India

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · India: 2.8 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ecuador are 21% deadlier than in India

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · India: 25.4 per 100k (2023)

India is on average 3.2 °C warmer than Ecuador

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · India: 24.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 2.5 times as much rain as India

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · India: 1,268 mm (2016–2025 avg)