Ecuador 
Facts
Population: 13,755,680 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 32.6% (male 2,282,319/female 2,196,685)
15-64 years: 62.3% (male 4,271,848/female 4,301,149)
65 years and over: 5.1% (male 330,302/female 373,377) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.554% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 21.91 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 4.21 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -2.16 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.039 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.993 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.885 male(s)/female
total population: 1.002 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 22.1 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 26.5 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 17.47 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 76.62 years
male: 73.74 years
female: 79.63 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.63 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.3% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 21,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 1,700 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Ecuadorian(s)
adjective: Ecuadorian.
Ethnic groups: mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 65%, Amerindian 25%, Spanish and others 7%, black 3%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 95%, other 5%.
Languages: Spanish (official), Amerindian languages (especially Quechua).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 91%
male: 92.3%
female: 89.7% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $61.52 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.1% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $4,500 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 6.3%
industry: 33.5%
services: 60.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 4.57 million (urban) (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 8%
industry: 24%
services: 68% (2001).
Population below poverty line: 38.5% (FY0506).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 2%
highest 10%: 32%
note: data for urban households only (October 2003).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.4% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 10.6% official rate; but underemployment of 47% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $11.5 billion
expenditures: planned $10.46 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.6 billion (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca), plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy products; balsa wood; fish, shrimp.
Industries: petroleum, food processing, textiles, wood products, chemicals.
Industrial production growth rate: 5% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 12.2 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 12.95 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 35 million kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 1.642 billion kWh (2004).
Exports: $12.56 billion (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: petroleum, bananas, cut flowers, shrimp.
Exports - partners: US 50.6%, Peru 7.9%, Germany 4.3%, Colombia 4.3% (2005).
Imports: $10.81 billion (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: vehicles, medicinal products, telecommunications equipment, electricity.
Imports - partners: US 22.1%, Colombia 14.8%, Venezuela 7.7%, Brazil 7.2%, China 5.2% (2005).
Debt - external: $18.1 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $216 million (2002).
Currency (code): US dollar (USD).
Exchange rates: the US dollar is used; the sucre was eliminated in 2000.
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Centrist), Quito
http://www.hoy.com.ec/
(Conservative), Quito
http://www.elcomercio.com/
El Mercurio
(Conservative), Cuena
(Conservative), Guayaquil
http://www.telegrafo.com.ec/
El Tiempo
(Centrist), Quito
(Centrist), Guayaquil
http://www.eluniverso.com/
Expreso
(Centrist), Guayaquil
Ecuador in the News
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Just one year after a loose-knit coalition of indigenous groups combined with rebellious military officers to bring down the government of President Jamil Mahuad, his successor’s attempt to implement unpopular fuel and transport price increases at the start of 2001 produced a familiar showdown between Indian “people power” and Ecuadoran authorities.
Chile’s peaceful election of its first Socialist president since the ill-fated Salvador Allende three decades ago has roused optimism in the regional press. The feeling is that the nation’s struggle to reestablish democracy and achieve social reconciliation following the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet is finally drawing to a close.
Blessed are the peacemakers—for they shall trade freely. The first anniversary of the historic peace agreement settling the century-old border dispute between Peru and Ecuador passed in October with little outward appearance of the quiet revolution unfolding along the newly demarcated frontier, observes the centrist Hoy of Quito (Oct. 26).
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