World Bank ICT At-a-Glance
Ecuador
Ecuador 2000 2009 Lower-middleincome group 2009 Latin America & the Caribbean Region 2009
GNI per Capita, Atlas Method, 200009 Current US$
8,000 6,000 4,000 2,000 0 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Economic and social context
Population (total, million) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method (current US$) GDP growth, 19952000 and 200009 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%) 12 60 1,340 0.7 91 14 66 3,970 5.0 84 79 3,811 41 2,321 8.5 80 64 572 79 7,007 3.8 91 83
Sector structure
Separate telecommunications regulator Status of main fixed-line telephone operator Level of competitiona International long distance service Mobile telephone service Internet service Yes Public M P P Yes Public C C C
Ecuador
Latin America & the Caribbean Region
ICT MDGd Indicators, 200009 Number per 100 people
Sector efficiency and capacity
Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Mobile cellular and fixed-line subscribers per employee Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) 2.8 244 9.8 4.1 513 3.0 605 22.4 3.8 586
120 90 60 30 0 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Sector performance
Access Telephone lines (per 100 people) Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed Internet subscribers (per 100 people) Personal computers (per 100 people) Households with a television set (%) Usage International voice traffic, total (minutes/person/month)b Mobile telephone usage (minutes/user/month) Internet users (per 100 people) Quality Population covered by mobile cellular network (%) Fixed broadband subscribers (% of total Internet subscribers) International Internet bandwidth (bits/second/person) Affordability Residential fixed line tariff (US$/month) Mobile cellular prepaid tariff (US$/month) Fixed broadband Internet access tariff (US$/month) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications E-government Web measure indexc Secure Internet servers (per 1 million people, December 2010) 9.9 3.9 0.5 2.2 14.7 100.1 4.1 13.0 83 12.7 57.8 5.5 4.5 18.2 89.5 7.7 11.5 85
Telephone lines Internet users
Mobile cellular subscriptions
ICT Service Exports, 200009 Percentage of total service exports
12
65 1.5
81 15.1
330 17.2
114 31.5
9 6 3
80 3.1 2
84 42.9 484
77 40.1 151
92 92.0 1,408
0 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009
Ecuador
Latin America & the Caribbean Region
1.3 9.4 39.9
4.7 7.1 30.4
10.6 8.8 29.6
Secure Internet servers, 200310 Number per 1 million people
30 20 10 0 2004 2006 2008 2010
0.0 6.4 7.2
0.2 7.5 4.9
21.3 18.4 19.9
11.6 15.2 5.5
0.9
0.44 15.3
0.29 2.7
0.43 27.5
Ecuador
Latin America & the Caribbean Region
Sources: Economic and social context: UIS and World Bank; Sector structure: ITU; Sector efficiency and capacity: ITU and World Bank; Sector performance: IMF, ITU, Netcraft, TeleGeography, UN Comtrade, UNDESA, UNPAN, Wireless Intelligence and World Bank. Produced by the Transport, Water, and Information Communication Technologies Department and the Development Economics Data Group. For complete information, see Definitions and Data Sources. Notes: Use of italics in the column entries indicates years other than those specified. Not available. GDP = gross domestic product; GNI = gross national income; ICT = information and communication technology; and MDG = Millennium Development Goal. a. C = competition; M = monopoly; and P = partial competition. b. Outgoing and incoming. c. Scale of 0-1, where 1 = highest presence. d. Millennium Development Goal indicators 8.14, 8.15, and 8.16.
