Sweden’s coastline is 44% longer than Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 4,167 m above Sweden’s

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 20% of Ecuador, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Ecuador has 73% more people than Sweden

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Ecuador is 2.8 times as densely populated as Sweden

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 12 years older than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

Women in Ecuador have 0.4 more children on average than in Sweden

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Sweden are 65 or older, versus 8.6% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 9.4 times as many refugees per resident as Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Ecuador and Sweden are practically level

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 5.1 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 4.3 times as much per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in Sweden (Gini 16.6 points higher)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

3.4% of people in Ecuador live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 3.3% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden and Ecuador are practically level

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Ecuador’s 13%

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

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

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 13 times as much on health per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Ecuador is 5.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 91% more doctors per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 44% more hospital beds per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 2.3 times that in Ecuador

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Ecuador are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 10% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 1.11 points higher than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 2.7 times as much alcohol as in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 22% more meat per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 746 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ecuador put in 162 more hours a year than in Sweden

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 3.8 years longer than in Ecuador

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

Ecuador: no data · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 10 more World Heritage sites than Ecuador (15 against 5)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

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

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Ecuador is 17% faster than in Sweden

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 63% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 10 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 7.4 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ecuador

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 50% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 42% more CO₂ than someone in Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.5 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

79% of Ecuador’s electricity is renewable, versus 71% in Sweden

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Ecuador carries 3.1 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 40 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in Sweden

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ecuador are 9.1 times as deadly as in Sweden

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Ecuador is on average 16.9 °C warmer than Sweden

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 4 times as much rain as Sweden

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)