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Population in Ecuador compared to Italy: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Ecuador was 18,135,478 in 2024 vs 58,986,023 people in Italy in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Ecuador's population is 18,414,090 people compared to 58,790,597 in Italy.

Population statistics:

  • Italy's population is 3.19 times bigger than Ecuador's.
  • Ecuador is ranked the 71st most populous country in the world, while Italy is the 25th.
  • The countries together account for 0.93% of the world: 0.22% for Ecuador vs 0.71% for Italy.
  • For the last 10 years, Ecuador has had an average growth rate of +1.26% per year vs -0.2% in Italy.
  • Since 2005, the population of Ecuador has increased from 13.8M people to 18.4M (33% growth), while Italy has grown from 58.2M to 58.8M (1.07% growth).
  • Ecuador is projected to reach its peak in 2063 at 21.7M people, while Italy's population already peaked in 2014 at 60.3M people and is projected to decrease to 35.2M people by 2100.

Ecuador vs Italy: live population counter

Ecuador Italy
Current population
18414090
58790597
Population rank 71/197 25/197
Percent of world population 0.22% 0.71%
One net population change
3.38 minutes
1.18 hours
One birth every
1.94 minutes
1.39 minutes
One death every
5.7 minutes
47.7 seconds
One migration net change every
26.7 minutes
5.52 minutes
Annual migration change -19,704 +95,246
Daily growth/decline +426 -20
Annual growth/decline +155,395 -7,452
Annual growth/decline rate +0.86% -0.01%
Population growth rate rank 112/197 166/197

Ecuador and Italy: population history and growth rate by year chart

Ecuador
Population

Growth rate
Italy
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Ecuador Italy Ecuador Italy
1960 4,590,891 50,199,700 - -
1961 4,722,331 50,536,350 2.86% 0.67%
1962 4,859,269 50,879,450 2.9% 0.68%
1963 5,001,716 51,252,000 2.93% 0.73%
1964 5,149,918 51,675,350 2.96% 0.83%
1965 5,303,963 52,112,350 2.99% 0.85%
1966 5,463,748 52,519,000 3.01% 0.78%
1967 5,629,057 52,900,500 3.03% 0.73%
1968 5,799,680 53,235,750 3.03% 0.63%
1969 5,975,236 53,537,950 3.03% 0.57%
1970 6,155,387 53,821,850 3.01% 0.53%
1971 6,340,052 54,073,490 3% 0.47%
1972 6,529,034 54,381,345 2.98% 0.57%
1973 6,722,033 54,751,406 2.96% 0.68%
1974 6,918,573 55,110,868 2.92% 0.66%
1975 7,118,251 55,441,001 2.89% 0.6%
1976 7,320,912 55,718,260 2.85% 0.5%
1977 7,526,819 55,955,411 2.81% 0.43%
1978 7,736,167 56,155,143 2.78% 0.36%
1979 7,948,869 56,317,749 2.75% 0.29%
1980 8,165,877 56,433,883 2.73% 0.21%
1981 8,386,910 56,501,675 2.71% 0.12%
1982 8,611,298 56,543,548 2.68% 0.07%
1983 8,840,417 56,564,074 2.66% 0.04%
1984 9,074,782 56,576,718 2.65% 0.02%
1985 9,311,154 56,593,071 2.6% 0.03%
1986 9,545,998 56,596,155 2.52% 0.005%
1987 9,779,290 56,601,931 2.44% 0.01%
1988 10,010,808 56,629,288 2.37% 0.05%
1989 10,241,852 56,671,781 2.31% 0.08%
1990 10,473,673 56,719,240 2.26% 0.08%
1991 10,702,380 56,758,521 2.18% 0.07%
1992 10,930,128 56,797,087 2.13% 0.07%
1993 11,154,274 56,831,821 2.05% 0.06%
1994 11,372,197 56,843,400 1.95% 0.02%
1995 11,590,514 56,844,303 1.92% 0.002%
1996 11,810,950 56,860,281 1.9% 0.03%
1997 12,031,127 56,890,372 1.86% 0.05%
1998 12,251,184 56,906,744 1.83% 0.03%
1999 12,470,795 56,916,317 1.79% 0.02%
2000 12,689,206 56,942,108 1.75% 0.05%
2001 12,910,740 56,976,981 1.75% 0.06%
2002 13,138,472 57,089,824 1.76% 0.2%
2003 13,372,306 57,399,184 1.78% 0.54%
2004 13,608,701 57,828,179 1.77% 0.75%
2005 13,846,163 58,166,682 1.74% 0.59%
2006 14,086,131 58,399,861 1.73% 0.4%
2007 14,328,773 58,756,247 1.72% 0.61%
2008 14,575,202 59,211,181 1.72% 0.77%
2009 14,825,954 59,555,454 1.72% 0.58%
2010 15,076,695 59,819,407 1.69% 0.44%
2011 15,326,227 60,026,841 1.66% 0.35%
2012 15,572,194 60,191,247 1.6% 0.27%
2013 15,807,128 60,311,613 1.51% 0.2%
2014 16,035,124 60,320,707 1.44% 0.02%
2015 16,266,225 60,229,605 1.44% -0.15%
2016 16,505,139 60,115,223 1.47% -0.19%
2017 16,759,519 60,002,252 1.54% -0.19%
2018 17,049,547 60,148,658 1.73% 0.24%
2019 17,340,021 59,729,081 1.7% -0.7%
2020 17,546,065 59,438,851 1.19% -0.49%
2021 17,682,454 59,133,173 0.78% -0.51%
2022 17,823,897 59,013,667 0.8% -0.2%
2023 17,980,083 58,993,475 0.88% -0.03%
2024 18,135,478 58,986,023 0.86% -0.01%
2025 18,289,898 58,790,597 0.85% -0.33%
2026 18,444,505 58,571,823 0.85% -0.37%
2027 18,600,319 58,335,864 0.84% -0.4%
2028 18,757,228 58,094,373 0.84% -0.41%
2029 18,914,103 57,851,042 0.84% -0.42%
2030 19,069,715 57,597,622 0.82% -0.44%
2031 19,222,817 57,333,277 0.8% -0.46%
2032 19,372,495 57,071,235 0.78% -0.46%
2033 19,518,750 56,812,747 0.75% -0.45%
2034 19,661,347 56,548,816 0.73% -0.46%
2035 19,800,128 56,279,536 0.71% -0.48%
2036 19,935,162 56,009,844 0.68% -0.48%
2037 20,066,382 55,737,477 0.66% -0.49%
2038 20,193,573 55,460,735 0.63% -0.5%
2039 20,316,268 55,177,508 0.61% -0.51%
2040 20,434,223 54,889,107 0.58% -0.52%
2041 20,547,455 54,601,628 0.55% -0.52%
2042 20,655,763 54,307,412 0.53% -0.54%
2043 20,759,127 53,997,106 0.5% -0.57%
2044 20,857,468 53,679,603 0.47% -0.59%
2045 20,950,629 53,357,669 0.45% -0.6%
2046 21,038,532 53,025,288 0.42% -0.62%
2047 21,121,169 52,680,150 0.39% -0.65%
2048 21,198,613 52,324,241 0.37% -0.68%
2049 21,270,658 51,959,050 0.34% -0.7%
2050 21,337,231 51,579,060 0.31% -0.73%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Ecuador increased by 2,420,062 people (a 17.5% growth), while Italy gained 2,062,923 people (a 3.55% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Ecuador gained 2,147,865 (a 13.2% growth), while Italy's population decreased by -1,439,008 (a 2.39% decline).

Ecuador was ranked 64th most populous country in 2005 and is 71st in 2025. Italy was ranked 23rd in 2005 and ranked 25th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Ecuador's population will grow by 15.9% to 21,337,231 people with a rank change from 71st to 74th. The population of Italy will decrease by 12.3% to 51,579,060 people and rank change from 25th to 40th.

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