The Philippines’ coastline is 16 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · Philippines: 36,289 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 3,313 m above the Philippines’

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · Philippines: 2,954 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 43% of the Philippines, versus 20% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · Philippines: 42.7% (2024)

The Philippines has 6.4 times as many people as Ecuador

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · Philippines: 117 million (2025)

The Philippines is 5.3 times as densely populated as Ecuador

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · Philippines: 392 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Ecuador is 3.1 years older than in the Philippines

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · Philippines: 25.3 years (2023)

Women in the Philippines have 0.1 more children on average than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · Philippines: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

8.6% of people in Ecuador are 65 or older, versus 5.7% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · Philippines: 5.7% (2025)

Ecuador hosts 164 times as many refugees per resident as the Philippines

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Philippines: 0.0088 per 1,000 (2025)

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

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · Philippines: 0.1 (2026)

The Philippines has 2 official languages, Ecuador 1

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · Philippines: 2 (2026)

The Philippines’ economy is 3.7 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · Philippines: $487 billion (2025)

Ecuador produces 33% more per person than the Philippines

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · Philippines: Int$12,577 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in the Philippines (Gini 6.6 points higher)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · Philippines: 39.3 (2023)

5.3% of people in the Philippines live on less than $3 a day, versus 3.4% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · Philippines: 5.3% (2023)

Unemployment is 3.3% in Ecuador, versus 2.2% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · Philippines: 2.2% (2025)

Ecuador spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, the Philippines 1.3%

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · Philippines: 1.3% (2025)

The Philippines’ central government collects 14% of GDP in tax, Ecuador’s 13%

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · Philippines: 14.4% (2024)

Ecuador’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× the Philippines’

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · Philippines: 33% (2025)

Ecuador spends 2.6 times as much on health per person as the Philippines

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · Philippines: $194 (2023)

A baby in the Philippines is 2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · Philippines: 21.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Ecuador has 2.9 times as many doctors per person as the Philippines

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · Philippines: 0.8 per 1,000 (2021)

Ecuador has 36% more hospital beds per person than the Philippines

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

The suicide rate in Ecuador is 77% higher than in the Philippines

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 3.1 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Ecuador are obese, versus 9.7% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · Philippines: 9.7% (2024)

20% of adults in the Philippines smoke, versus 10% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · Philippines: 19.9% (2024)

People in the Philippines rate their lives 0.06 points higher than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · Philippines: 6.21 (2025)

Adults in the Philippines drink 90% more alcohol than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · Philippines: 6.1 litres (2023)

Ecuador has 67% more meat per person than the Philippines

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · Philippines: 33.6 kg (2023)

The Philippines has 362 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · Philippines: 2,983 kcal (2023)

Workers in the Philippines put in 502 more hours a year than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · Philippines: 2,096 hours (2023)

Adults in the Philippines went to school 1 year longer than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 9 years (2023) · Philippines: 10 years (2023)

Ecuador: no data · Philippines: 0.02 (2022)

The Philippines has 1 more World Heritage site than Ecuador (6 against 5)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · Philippines: 6 (2026)

The Philippines has won 18 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · Philippines: 18 (2026 edition)

77% of people in Ecuador are online, versus 67% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · Philippines: 67% (2024)

Home internet in Ecuador is 75% faster than in the Philippines

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · Philippines: 166 Mbps (2026)

99% of people in Ecuador have electricity, versus 95% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 98.5% (2024) · Philippines: 94.8% (2024)

63% of people in Ecuador live in cities, versus 56% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · Philippines: 56% (2025)

The Philippines has 115 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · Philippines: 115 (2024)

Ecuador’s railway network is 90% longer than the Philippines’

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · Philippines: 509 km (2016)

Airlines from the Philippines fly 42% more passengers per resident than those from Ecuador

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · Philippines: 0.36 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Ecuador, but only 25% of the Philippines

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · Philippines: 24.8% (2024)

The average person in Ecuador emits 68% more CO₂ than someone in the Philippines

Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024) · Philippines: 1.5 t (2024)

79% of Ecuador’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in the Philippines

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · Philippines: 23.3% (2025)

The air in the Philippines carries 31% more fine dust than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Philippines: 23.1 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 11 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in the Philippines

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 4.3 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ecuador are 2.2 times as deadly as in the Philippines

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · Philippines: 13.8 per 100k (2023)

The Philippines is on average 5.1 °C warmer than Ecuador

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 26.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 7% more rain than the Philippines

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Philippines: 3,001 mm (2016–2025 avg)