Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
38.1%
+16.1 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
2.31%
+0.3 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
3.69%
+1.7 pts since 1995
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
54.5%
of GDP · -9 pts since 2001
Population · 2025
18.3m
57.8% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Ecuador yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare rose from 1.0% to 4.7% of GDP between 2000 and 2023.
Defence rose from 2.0% to 3.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2009, then fell to 2.1% by 2025.
Education rose from 2.0% to 5.2% of GDP between 1995 and 2014, then fell to 3.7% by 2024.
Total spending rose from 22.0% to 46.7% of GDP between 1995 and 2013, then fell to 38.1% by 2024.
Gross debt fell from 63.8% to 18.4% of GDP between 2001 and 2010, then rose to 54.5% by 2025.
Population grew from 11.6 million in 1995 to 18.3 million in 2025; the UN projects 21.3 million by 2050.