New Zealand’s coastline is 6.8 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 15,134 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 6,237 m above New Zealand’s

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 30 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 37% of New Zealand, versus 20% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · New Zealand: 36.8% (2024)

Ecuador has 3.4 times as many people as New Zealand

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · New Zealand: 5.32 million (2025)

Ecuador is 3.6 times as densely populated as New Zealand

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · New Zealand: 20 per km² (2025)

The typical person in New Zealand is 8.9 years older than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · New Zealand: 37.3 years (2023)

Women in Ecuador have 0.2 more children on average than in New Zealand

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · New Zealand: 1.57 children per woman (2024)

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

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · New Zealand: 17.6% (2025)

Ecuador hosts 3.6 times as many refugees per resident as New Zealand

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · New Zealand: 0.4 per 1,000 (2025)

New Zealand has produced 5.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · New Zealand: 5.6 (2026)

New Zealand has 3 official languages, Ecuador 1

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand’s economy is 2 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · New Zealand: $264 billion (2025)

New Zealand produces 3.4 times as much per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · New Zealand: Int$57,350 (2025)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · New Zealand: no data

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · New Zealand: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in New Zealand, versus 3.3% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · New Zealand: 5.1% (2025)

Ecuador spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, New Zealand 1.1%

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · New Zealand: 1.1% (2025)

New Zealand’s central government collects 30% of GDP in tax, Ecuador’s 13%

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · New Zealand: 29.5% (2024)

New Zealand’s price level (US = 100) is 2× Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · New Zealand: 86% (2025)

New Zealand spends 9.9 times as much on health per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · New Zealand: $5,022 (2024)

A baby in Ecuador is 2.7 times as likely to die before turning one as in New Zealand

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · New Zealand: 4 per 1,000 (2024)

New Zealand has 56% more doctors per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · New Zealand: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022)

New Zealand has 90% more hospital beds per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.5 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in New Zealand is 2.4 times that in Ecuador

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 13 per 100k (2023)

35% of adults in New Zealand are obese, versus 29% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 34.7% (2024)

10% of adults in Ecuador smoke, versus 9.3% in New Zealand

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · New Zealand: 9.3% (2024)

People in New Zealand rate their lives 0.85 points higher than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · New Zealand: 7.00 (2025)

Adults in New Zealand drink 2.8 times as much alcohol as in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · New Zealand: 8.9 litres (2023)

New Zealand has 41% more meat per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · New Zealand: 79.5 kg (2023)

New Zealand has 501 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · New Zealand: 3,122 kcal (2023)

Workers in New Zealand put in 114 more hours a year than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · New Zealand: 1,708 hours (2023)

Adults in New Zealand went to school 3.9 years longer than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 9 years (2023) · New Zealand: 12.9 years (2023)

Ecuador: no data · New Zealand: 0.6 (2024)

Ecuador has 2 more World Heritage sites than New Zealand (5 against 3)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · New Zealand: 3 (2026)

New Zealand has won 166 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · New Zealand: 166 (2026 edition)

94% of people in New Zealand are online, versus 77% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · New Zealand: 94% (2024)

Home internet in Ecuador is 7% faster than in New Zealand

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · New Zealand: 272 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in New Zealand have electricity, versus 99% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 98.5% (2024) · New Zealand: 100% (2024)

84% of people in New Zealand live in cities, versus 63% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · New Zealand: 84% (2025)

New Zealand has 130 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · New Zealand: 130 (2024)

New Zealand’s railway network is 4.3 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · New Zealand: 4,128 km (2018)

Airlines from New Zealand fly 11 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ecuador

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · New Zealand: 2.82 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Ecuador, but only 39% of New Zealand

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · New Zealand: 38.9% (2024)

The average person in New Zealand emits 2.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024) · New Zealand: 6.2 t (2024)

89% of New Zealand’s electricity is renewable, versus 79% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · New Zealand: 88.5% (2025)

The air in Ecuador carries 2.5 times as much fine dust as in New Zealand

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · New Zealand: 7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 31 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in New Zealand

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 1.5 per 100k (2022)

Roads in Ecuador are 2.8 times as deadly as in New Zealand

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · New Zealand: 10.9 per 100k (2023)

Ecuador is on average 10.2 °C warmer than New Zealand

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 11.1°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 2 times as much rain as New Zealand

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · New Zealand: 1,596 mm (2016–2025 avg)