Japan’s coastline is 13 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · Japan: 29,751 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 2,491 m above Japan’s

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · Japan: 3,776 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 20% of Ecuador, versus 13% of Japan

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · Japan: 12.6% (2024)

Japan has 6.7 times as many people as Ecuador

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · Japan: 123 million (2025)

Japan is 4.6 times as densely populated as Ecuador

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · Japan: 338 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Japan is 21 years older than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · Japan: 49 years (2023)

Women in Ecuador have 0.7 more children on average than in Japan

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · Japan: 1.15 children per woman (2024)

30% of people in Japan are 65 or older, versus 8.6% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · Japan: 30% (2025)

Ecuador hosts 4.2 times as many refugees per resident as Japan

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Japan: 0.3 per 1,000 (2025)

Japan has produced 2.5 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · Japan: 2.5 (2026)

Ecuador and Japan are practically level

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · Japan: 1 (2026)

Japan’s economy is 34 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · Japan: $4.44 trillion (2025)

Japan produces 3.3 times as much per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · Japan: Int$55,422 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in Japan (Gini 13.6 points higher)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · Japan: 32.3 (2020)

3.4% of people in Ecuador live on less than $3 a day, versus 1.2% in Japan

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · Japan: 1.2% (2020)

Unemployment is 3.3% in Ecuador, versus 2.5% in Japan

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · Japan: 2.5% (2025)

Ecuador spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Japan 1.4%

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · Japan: 1.4% (2025)

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · Japan: no data

Japan’s price level (US = 100) is 1.5× Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · Japan: 65% (2025)

Japan spends 7.1 times as much on health per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · Japan: $3,638 (2023)

A baby in Ecuador is 6.1 times as likely to die before turning one as in Japan

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · Japan: 1.8 per 1,000 (2024)

Japan has 15% more doctors per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · Japan: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Japan has 9.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Japan: 12.6 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Japan is 2.6 times that in Ecuador

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 14.4 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Ecuador are obese, versus 5.2% in Japan

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · Japan: 5.2% (2024)

18% of adults in Japan smoke, versus 10% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · Japan: 17.5% (2024)

Ecuador and Japan are practically level

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · Japan: 6.13 (2025)

Adults in Japan drink 95% more alcohol than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · Japan: 6.3 litres (2023)

Japan has 7% more meat per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · Japan: 59.9 kg (2022)

Japan has 49 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · Japan: 2,670 kcal (2022)

Workers in Japan put in 60 more hours a year than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · Japan: 1,654 hours (2023)

Adults in Japan went to school 3.7 years longer than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 9 years (2023) · Japan: 12.7 years (2023)

Ecuador: no data · Japan: 0.3 (2024)

Japan has 22 more World Heritage sites than Ecuador (27 against 5)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · Japan: 27 (2026)

Japan has won 642 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · Japan: 642 (2026 edition)

86% of people in Japan are online, versus 77% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · Japan: 86% (2024)

Home internet in Japan is 11% faster than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · Japan: 322 Mbps (2026)

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

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

92% of people in Japan live in cities, versus 63% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · Japan: 92% (2025)

Japan has 178 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · Japan: 178 (2023)

Japan’s railway network is 21 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · Japan: 20,087 km (2011)

Airlines from Japan fly 3.9 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ecuador

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · Japan: 0.98 (2023)

Forest covers 68% of Japan, but only 50% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · Japan: 68.3% (2024)

The average person in Japan emits 3.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024) · Japan: 7.8 t (2024)

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

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · Japan: 23.6% (2025)

The air in Ecuador carries 69% more fine dust than in Japan

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Japan: 10.5 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 200 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in Japan

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 0.2 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ecuador are 8.1 times as deadly as in Japan

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · Japan: 3.8 per 100k (2023)

Ecuador is on average 8.5 °C warmer than Japan

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 12.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 76% more rain than Japan

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Japan: 1,824 mm (2016–2025 avg)