Country comparison: Colombia / Ecuador

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Colombia and Ecuador. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Colombia	Ecuador
Region:	South America	South America
Area:	1,141,749 km²	256,370 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1810 AD	1822 AD
Capital:	Bogota	Quito

Population

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	Colombia	Ecuador
Population:	51,517,000	17,798,000
Inhabitants/km²:	45.1	69.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 69 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 76 years
Average age:	Ø 31.2 years	Ø 28.8 years
Birth rate:	14.44 ‰	17.04 ‰
Death rate:	6.61 ‰	7.53 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.85 ‰	0.00 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Colombia	Ecuador
Political stability:	43	64
Civil rights:	44	38
Health:	58	51
Climate:	55	60
Cost of Living:	45	59
Popularity:	27	25

Economy

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	Colombia	Ecuador
Currency:	Colombian peso (1 COP = 100 Centavos)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	10.7 %	4.0 %
Inflation rate:	10.18 %	3.47 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	37.36 %	49.71 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.20 %	34.40 %
Average income:	6,190 US$	5,960 US$
Corruption index:	61 (bad)	64 (bad)

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	ECU: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	314,464 M US$	6.10 M US$	106,166 M US$	5.97 M US$
Gross national product:	318,932 M US$	6.19 M US$	106,042 M US$	5.96 M US$
Exported goods:	72,497 M US$	1.41 M US$	29,325 M US$	1.65 M US$
Imported goods:	89,076 M US$	1.73 M US$	28,567 M US$	1.61 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	ECU: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	205,379 km	3.99 km	43,950 km	2.47 km
Railways:	2,141 km	0.04 km	965 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	24,725 km	0.48 km	1,500 km	0.08 km
Harbours:	122	0.0024	145	0.0081
Passenger airports:	51	0.0010	14	0.0008

Energy balance

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	ECU: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	173.18 bn kWh	3.36 m kWh	81.94 bn kWh	4.60 m kWh
Energy consumption:	69.86 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh	26.35 bn kWh	1.48 m kWh
Energy production:	74.53 bn kWh	1.45 m kWh	32.48 bn kWh	1.82 m kWh
Energy export:	251.00 m kWh	4,872.22 kWh	1.83 bn kWh	102,597.31 kWh
Energy imports:	1.30 bn kWh	25,273.43 kWh	6.00 m kWh	337.12 kWh
CO2 emissions:	81.04 m t	1,573.07 t	39.29 m t	2,207.77 t

Telecommunication

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	Colombia	Ecuador
International dialing:	+57	+593
Internet domain:	.co	.ec

	COL total	COL per 1000 inh.	ECU total	ECU per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,567,395	147	1,846,666	104
Mobile cellulars:	75,056,111	1457	16,789,600	943
Internet server:	4,410,000	86	170,538	10
Internet users:	35,953,409	698	12,583,000	707
Broadband Internet:	8,434,168	164	2,440,142	137

Healthcare system

Details for Colombia and Ecuador

	Colombia	Ecuador
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.71	1.39
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.08	2.05
Diabetes:	7.4 %	5.5 %
Malaria:	8.5 %	3.3 %
HIV:	0.30 %	0.19 %
Tuberculosis:	0.41 ‰	0.48 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	70.0 %
Smokers:	8.5 %	11.3 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Colombia and Ecuador

	Colombia	Ecuador
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	25.6 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	17.3 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	23.4 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	76 %
Rain days:	12.1	10.3
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	4.1

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Colombia
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Native languages

	Colombia	Ecuador
Spanish:	99.0 %	93.0 %
Quechua:	0.1 %	4.1 %
Chibcha:	0.4 %	n/a
Arawakan:	0.1 %	n/a
Creole-English:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.3 %	2.9 %

Religions

	Colombia	Ecuador
Christianity:	90.0 %	85.6 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	7.9 %
other:	10.0 %	6.5 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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