Slum population in Ecuador

57.8% of the urban population of Ecuador lived in slums in 2022.

Measure: Urban population living in slums Unit: % of urban population Data: 2000 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Ecuador, 2022 57.8% % of urban population
Change from 2006 0percentage points 2006: 57.8%
World, 2022 23.2% Official aggregate
Position in 2022 22nd of 181 See the full ranking

Slum population in Ecuador over time

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% of urban population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Urban population living in slums (% of urban population), 2000 to 2022
Period EcuadorWorld
2022 57.8% 23.2%
2018 – 19.7%
2006 57.8% –
2004 57.8% –
2002 57.8% –
2000 57.4% –

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from the previous available figure, 57.8% in 2006.
  • Since 2000, when it was 57.4%, the figure has changed by +0.4 percentage points.
  • Among the 181 countries with data for 2022, Ecuador has the 22nd highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2022 was 23.2%.

Source and dates

Original producer
UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2000 to 2022 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: UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database