New businesses registered in Ecuador

19,317 companies were registered in Ecuador in 2024.

Measure: New businesses registered Unit: New limited liability companies Data: 2006 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Ecuador, 2024 19,317 New limited liability companies
Change from 2023 −3.3% 2023: 19,971 companies

New businesses registered in Ecuador over time

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New limited liability companies. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

New businesses registered (new limited liability companies), 2006 to 2024
Period Ecuador
2024 19,317 companies
2023 19,971 companies
2022 18,665 companies
2021 15,587 companies
2020 10,304 companies
2019 9,430 companies
2018 8,319 companies
2017 7,564 companies
2016 6,574 companies
2015 7,399 companies
2014 7,720 companies
2013 7,344 companies
2012 6,676 companies
2011 6,158 companies
2010 5,471 companies
2009 4,377 companies
2008 4,442 companies
2007 3,786 companies
2006 3,649 companies

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −3.3% from 19,971 companies in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 7,720 companies, the figure has changed by +150.2%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
IC.BUS.NREG · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2006 to 2024 for Ecuador
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Entrepreneurship Database