Ecuador: 2,237 km (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 0 km (2026 edition)

Ecuador’s highest peak towers 1,633 m above Switzerland’s

Ecuador: 6,267 m (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 4,634 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 38% of Switzerland, versus 20% of Ecuador

Ecuador: 20.3% (2024) · Switzerland: 37.7% (2024)

Ecuador has 2 times as many people as Switzerland

Ecuador: 18.3 million (2025) · Switzerland: 9.09 million (2025)

Switzerland is 3.1 times as densely populated as Ecuador

Ecuador: 74 per km² (2025) · Switzerland: 230 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Switzerland is 14 years older than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 28.4 years (2023) · Switzerland: 42.3 years (2023)

Women in Ecuador have 0.5 more children on average than in Switzerland

Ecuador: 1.81 children per woman (2024) · Switzerland: 1.29 children per woman (2024)

20% of people in Switzerland are 65 or older, versus 8.6% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 8.6% (2025) · Switzerland: 20.4% (2025)

Switzerland hosts 16 times as many refugees per resident as Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.4 per 1,000 (2025) · Switzerland: 22.9 per 1,000 (2025)

Switzerland has produced 20.9 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Ecuador none

Ecuador: 0 (2026) · Switzerland: 20.9 (2026)

Switzerland has 4 official languages, Ecuador 1

Ecuador: 1 (2026) · Switzerland: 4 (2026)

Switzerland’s economy is 8 times the size of Ecuador’s

Ecuador: $130 billion (2025) · Switzerland: $1.04 trillion (2025)

Switzerland produces 6.1 times as much per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: Int$16,757 (2025) · Switzerland: Int$102,513 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Ecuador than in Switzerland (Gini 12.4 points higher)

Ecuador: 45.9 (2025) · Switzerland: 33.5 (2023)

3.4% of people in Ecuador live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Switzerland

Ecuador: 3.4% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.1% (2023)

Unemployment is 4.9% in Switzerland, versus 3.3% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 3.3% (2025) · Switzerland: 4.9% (2025)

Ecuador spends 2.1% of its GDP on the military, Switzerland 0.8%

Ecuador: 2.1% (2025) · Switzerland: 0.8% (2025)

Ecuador’s central government collects 13% of GDP in tax, Switzerland’s 9.5%

Ecuador: 13.1% (2022) · Switzerland: 9.5% (2024)

Switzerland’s price level (US = 100) is 2.6× Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 43% (2025) · Switzerland: 112% (2025)

Switzerland spends 23 times as much on health per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: $509 (2023) · Switzerland: $11,784 (2023)

A baby in Ecuador is 3.2 times as likely to die before turning one as in Switzerland

Ecuador: 10.9 per 1,000 (2024) · Switzerland: 3.4 per 1,000 (2024)

Switzerland has 94% more doctors per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2.3 per 1,000 (2020) · Switzerland: 4.5 per 1,000 (2022)

Switzerland has 3.3 times as many hospital beds per person as Ecuador

Ecuador: 1.3 per 1,000 (2023) · Switzerland: 4.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Switzerland is 2.1 times that in Ecuador

Ecuador: 5.5 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 11.6 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Ecuador are obese, versus 13% in Switzerland

Ecuador: 28.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 12.9% (2024)

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

Ecuador: 10.1% (2024) · Switzerland: 23.1% (2024)

People in Switzerland rate their lives 0.87 points higher than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 6.14 (2025) · Switzerland: 7.02 (2025)

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

Ecuador: 3.2 litres (2023) · Switzerland: 8.8 litres (2023)

Switzerland has 14% more meat per person than Ecuador

Ecuador: 56.2 kg (2023) · Switzerland: 64 kg (2023)

Switzerland has 781 kcal more food per person per day than Ecuador

Ecuador: 2,621 kcal (2023) · Switzerland: 3,402 kcal (2023)

Workers in Ecuador put in 65 more hours a year than in Switzerland

Ecuador: 1,594 hours (2023) · Switzerland: 1,529 hours (2023)

Adults in Switzerland went to school 5 years longer than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 9 years (2023) · Switzerland: 13.9 years (2023)

Ecuador: no data · Switzerland: 1.04 (2022)

Switzerland has 8 more World Heritage sites than Ecuador (13 against 5)

Ecuador: 5 (2026) · Switzerland: 13 (2026)

Switzerland has won 403 Olympic medals, Ecuador 10

Ecuador: 10 (2026 edition) · Switzerland: 403 (2026 edition)

97% of people in Switzerland are online, versus 77% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 77% (2024) · Switzerland: 97% (2025)

Home internet in Switzerland is 38% faster than in Ecuador

Ecuador: 290 Mbps (2026) · Switzerland: 399 Mbps (2026)

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

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

86% of people in Switzerland live in cities, versus 63% in Ecuador

Ecuador: 63% (2025) · Switzerland: 86% (2025)

Switzerland has 129 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Ecuador 102

Ecuador: 102 (2024) · Switzerland: 129 (2024)

Switzerland’s railway network is 4.3 times as long as Ecuador’s

Ecuador: 965 km (2022) · Switzerland: 4,122 km (2021)

Airlines from Switzerland fly 12 times as many passengers per resident as those from Ecuador

Ecuador: 0.25 (2023) · Switzerland: 3.05 (2023)

Forest covers 50% of Ecuador, but only 32% of Switzerland

Ecuador: 49.7% (2024) · Switzerland: 32% (2024)

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

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

79% of Ecuador’s electricity is renewable, versus 68% in Switzerland

Ecuador: 79.4% (2025) · Switzerland: 67.8% (2025)

The air in Ecuador carries 2 times as much fine dust as in Switzerland

Ecuador: 17.7 µg/m³ (2024) · Switzerland: 9 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 77 times as likely to be murdered in Ecuador as in Switzerland

Ecuador: 45.7 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 0.6 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Ecuador are 7.9 times as deadly as in Switzerland

Ecuador: 30.8 per 100k (2023) · Switzerland: 3.9 per 100k (2023)

Ecuador is on average 14.7 °C warmer than Switzerland

Ecuador: 21.3°C (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 6.5°C (2016–2025 avg)

Ecuador gets 2 times as much rain as Switzerland

Ecuador: 3,204 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Switzerland: 1,616 mm (2016–2025 avg)