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Ecuador vs Peru

126 shared metrics.

EcuadorLeads in 57

vs126 shared

PeruLeads in 69

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What matters for both sides

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Ecuador

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Ecuador.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Ecuador takes its name from the Equator, which crosses the country.

Britannica

Peru

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Peru.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Machu Picchu sits above 2,400 m, so Peru's famous Inca site is also a mountain clue.

UNESCO

Analysis

Peru leads in 69 of 126 shared metrics, while Ecuador leads in 57.

Ecuador's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 22.4x that of Peru (0.49 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Ecuador's Capital Elevation is 17.5x that of Peru (2.9K m vs 154 m).

Ecuador's Homicide Rate is 4.3x that of Peru (45.72 per 100k vs 8.6 per 100k).

Ecuador's Suicide Rate is 3.9x that of Peru (7.6 per 100k vs 1.5 per 100k).

Ecuador's Time Zones Count is 3.0x that of Peru (4.0 time zones vs 1.0 time zones).

Key Comparisons

EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)Ecuador leads

Ecuador

0.49 per 100k people

Peru

0.02 per 100k people

Capital ElevationEcuador leads

Ecuador

2.9K m

Peru

154 m

Homicide RateEcuador leads

Ecuador

45.72 per 100k

Peru

8.6 per 100k

Suicide RateEcuador leads

Ecuador

7.6 per 100k

Peru

1.5 per 100k

Time Zones CountEcuador leads

Ecuador

4.0 time zones

Peru

1.0 time zones

All-Time Olympic Gold MedalsEcuador leads

Ecuador

4.0 gold medals

Peru

1.0 gold medals

All Metrics

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Ecuador

Ecuador

1.8 per 1M people

Peru

0.82 per 1M people

123% higher

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)

Firms Making Informal Payments

Ecuador

12.84% of firms

Peru

6.1% of firms

111% higher

All-Time Olympic Medals

Ecuador

10 medals

Peru

5.0 medals

100% higher

Solar Electricity Share

Peru

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Peru

Ecuador

0.35% of GDP

Peru

2.4% of GDP

85% lower

Comparison of Ecuador and Peru across 126 metrics
				Winner
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.49 per 100k people	0.02 per 100k people	2243% higher	Ecuador
Capital Elevation	2.9K m	154 m	1751% higher	Ecuador
Homicide Rate	45.72 per 100k	8.6 per 100k	431% higher	Ecuador
Suicide Rate	7.6 per 100k	1.5 per 100k	391% higher	Ecuador
Time Zones Count	4.0 time zones	1.0 time zones	300% higher	Ecuador
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	4.0 gold medals	1.0 gold medals	300% higher	Ecuador
Population Density	72.4 /km²	26.44 /km²	174% higher	Ecuador
Military Spending	2.2% of GDP	0.91% of GDP	144% higher	Ecuador
Milk Consumption per Person	139.6 kg/person/yr	62.15 kg/person/yr	125% higher	Ecuador
Firms Hit by Power Outages	74.82% of firms	33.51% of firms	123% higher	Ecuador
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	1.8 per 1M people	0.82 per 1M people	123% higher	Ecuador
Firms Making Informal Payments	12.84% of firms	6.1% of firms	111% higher	Ecuador
All-Time Olympic Medals	10 medals	5.0 medals	100% higher	Ecuador
Solar Electricity Share	0.11%	3.0%	96% lower	Peru
High-Tech Exports (%)	10.0%	5.2%	92% higher	Ecuador
Firms Asked for Bribes	14.4% of firms	7.6% of firms	90% higher	Ecuador
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	5.8% of GDP	3.1% of GDP	87% higher	Ecuador
Meat Consumption per Person	45.22 kg/person/yr	24.41 kg/person/yr	85% higher	Ecuador
Wind Electricity Share	0.52%	3.5%	85% lower	Peru
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.35% of GDP	2.4% of GDP	85% lower	Peru
Road Traffic Death Rate	23.4 per 100k	12.7 per 100k	84% higher	Ecuador
Forest Area	123.1K km²	718.1K km²	83% lower	Peru
Airports	320	175	83% higher	Ecuador
Land Area	248.4K km²	1.28M km²	81% lower	Peru
Mobile Money Accounts	10.08% of adults	42.5% of adults	76% lower	Peru
Spirits Consumption	0.45 L/person/yr	1.8 L/person/yr	74% lower	Peru
Air Passengers	4.57M	17.72M	74% lower	Peru
Armed Forces Personnel	42.0K	158.0K	73% lower	Peru
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	36.51 per 100k	128.12 per 100k	72% lower	Peru
Seafood Consumption per Person	8.3 kg/person/yr	26.83 kg/person/yr	69% lower	Peru
Land Border Length	2.2K km	7.1K km	68% lower	Peru
Foreign Patents	373	1.1K	67% lower	Peru
Domestic Patents	35	94	63% lower	Peru
Water Withdrawal	9.9 B m³	25.92 B m³	62% lower	Peru
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	5.0 sites	13 sites	62% lower	Peru
Alcohol Consumption	2.5 L/adult/yr	6.5 L/adult/yr	61% lower	Peru
Broadband Access (%)	16 per 100 people	10 per 100 people	60% higher	Ecuador
Border Neighbors	2.0	5.0	60% lower	Peru
GDP (Nominal)	$124,676,074,700	$289,221,969,062.94	57% lower	Peru
Irrigated Land	12.5K km²	25.8K km²	51% lower	Peru
Railway Length	965 km	1.9K km	48% lower	Peru
Electric Generating Capacity	8.44M kW	16.16M kW	48% lower	Peru
Electricity Generation	33 TWh	63.85 TWh	48% lower	Peru
Smoking Rate	10.2%	7.1%	44% higher	Ecuador
Population	18.48M	32.77M	44% lower	Peru
Water Stress (%)	2.2%	1.6%	42% higher	Ecuador
Safe Drinking Water (%)	69.89%	49.43%	41% higher	Ecuador
Merchant Fleet Size	154	111	39% higher	Ecuador
Renewable Energy (%)	18.9%	30.6%	38% lower	Peru
Women in Senior Management	45.28% of managers	32.91% of managers	38% higher	Ecuador
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	16.66 µg/m³	27.04 µg/m³	38% lower	Peru
Hypertension Prevalence	27.2% of adults	19.8% of adults	37% higher	Ecuador
Doctors (per 1,000)	2.3 per 1k	1.7 per 1k	37% higher	Ecuador
Vehicles per 1,000 People	118.37 per 1k people	181.58 per 1k people	35% lower	Peru
Electricity Carbon Intensity	159.02 gCO2/kWh	238.25 gCO2/kWh	33% lower	Peru
Insufficient Physical Activity	22.46% of adults	32.85% of adults	32% lower	Peru
Total CO2 Emissions	47.96 Mt CO2e	69.27 Mt CO2e	31% lower	Peru
Beer Consumption	1.7 L/person/yr	2.5 L/person/yr	30% lower	Peru
Tourism Revenue	$705,000,000	$1,002,000,000	30% lower	Peru
Teen Birth Rate	55.53 per 1k	43.56 per 1k	27% higher	Ecuador
Death Rate	7.1 per 1k	9.8 per 1k	27% lower	Peru
Urban Population (%)	63.24%	85.19%	26% lower	Peru
Inflation Rate	1.5%	2.0%	25% lower	Peru
Liberal Democracy Index	0.39	0.51	24% lower	Peru
Health Spending (% GDP)	7.5% of GDP	6.1% of GDP	24% higher	Ecuador
CO2 Per Capita	2.5 t/person/yr	2.1 t/person/yr	23% higher	Ecuador
Government Debt (% GDP)	43.2% of GDP	35.2% of GDP	23% higher	Ecuador
Scientific Publications	3.6K	4.6K	22% lower	Peru
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.3 per 1k	1.6 per 1k	19% lower	Peru
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	102 per 100 people	125 per 100 people	18% lower	Peru
Infant Mortality	11.1 per 1k births	13.5 per 1k births	18% lower	Peru
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	13.09% of GDP	15.92% of GDP	18% lower	Peru
Child Mortality	13.1 per 1k births	15.8 per 1k births	17% lower	Peru
Imports (% GDP)	26.92% of GDP	22.94% of GDP	17% higher	Ecuador
Tobacco Use Prevalence	10% of adults	11.9% of adults	16% lower	Peru
Sanitation Access (%)	91.2%	78.77%	16% higher	Ecuador
Digital Payments Used	43.3% of adults	51.71% of adults	16% lower	Peru
Average Weekly Work Hours	34.13 hrs/week	39.67 hrs/week	14% lower	Peru
GNI Per Capita	$6,430	$7,500	14% lower	Peru
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.2% of youth labor force	9.5% of youth labor force	14% lower	Peru
Credit Card Ownership	14.4% of adults	12.65% of adults	14% higher	Ecuador
Inequality (Gini)	45.2	40.1	13% higher	Ecuador
Agricultural Land (%)	21.54%	19.05%	13% higher	Ecuador
Forest Coverage (%)	49.55%	56.1%	12% lower	Peru
Women in Parliament (%)	43.07%	38.46%	12% higher	Ecuador
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$15,840.27	$17,802.42	11% lower	Peru
Health Spending Per Capita	$492.84	$445.86	11% higher	Ecuador
Corruption Perceptions Index	33 pts	30 pts	10% higher	Ecuador
Elderly Population (%)	8.3%	9.2%	10% lower	Peru
Electoral Democracy Index	0.61	0.67	9% lower	Peru
Energy Use (Per Capita)	904.74 kg oil eq/person	826.71 kg oil eq/person	9% higher	Ecuador
Education Spending (% GDP)	3.9% of GDP	4.2% of GDP	8% lower	Peru
Coastline Length	2.2K km	2.4K km	7% lower	Peru
Highest Elevation	6.3K m	6.7K m	7% lower	Peru
Freedom of Expression Index	0.71	0.76	7% lower	Peru
Shipping Traffic	2.68M	2.87M	6% lower	Peru
Internet Users (%)	77%	81.96%	6% lower	Peru
Exports (% GDP)	30.28% of GDP	28.54% of GDP	6% higher	Ecuador
Birth Rate	17.42 per 1k	16.43 per 1k	6% higher	Ecuador
Firms with Female Top Manager	21.05% of firms	22.39% of firms	6% lower	Peru
Protected Land (%)	23.6%	22.5%	5% higher	Ecuador
Skilled Birth Attendance (%)	99.4%	94.9%	5% higher	Ecuador
Renewable Energy (%)	25.36%	26.66%	5% lower	Peru
Food Waste per Person	162.52 kg/person/yr	154.18 kg/person/yr	5% higher	Ecuador
Median Age	28.4 years	29.5 years	4% lower	Peru
Political Corruption Index	0.65	0.63	3% higher	Ecuador
Electricity Access (%)	98.7%	96.2%	3% higher	Ecuador
Adult Literacy Rate	96.26%	93.66%	3% higher	Ecuador
Life Evaluation Score	6.1 pts	6.0 pts	3% higher	Ecuador
Can Raise Emergency Money	92.8% of adults	90.2% of adults	3% higher	Ecuador
Informal Employment Share	68.45% of employed people	70.46% of employed people	3% lower	Peru
Human Development Index	0.78	0.79	2% lower	Peru
Dependency Ratio	48.81% of working-age pop.	49.7% of working-age pop.	2% lower	Peru
Women's Political Empowerment	0.79	0.78	2% higher	Ecuador
Fertility Rate	2.2 children/woman	2.1 children/woman	2% higher	Ecuador
Youth Population (%)	24.46%	23.97%	2% higher	Ecuador
Obesity Rate	26.98%	27.18%	1% lower	Peru
Unemployment Rate	4.8%	4.8%	1% lower	Peru
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	11 days/yr	11 days/yr	equal	Ecuador
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0.02%	ranked lower	Peru
Life Expectancy	77.4 years	77.7 years	equal	Peru
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	1.6K kWh/person	1.6K kWh/person	equal	Ecuador
GDP Growth Rate	-2%	3.3%	ranked lower	Peru
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0.03 per 1M people	ranked lower	Peru
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Ecuador
Official Languages Count	3.0	3.0	equal	Ecuador

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Analysis

Peru leads in 69 of 126 shared metrics, while Ecuador leads in 57.

Ecuador's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 22.4x that of Peru (0.49 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Ecuador's Capital Elevation is 17.5x that of Peru (2.9K m vs 154 m).

Ecuador's Homicide Rate is 4.3x that of Peru (45.72 per 100k vs 8.6 per 100k).

Ecuador's Suicide Rate is 3.9x that of Peru (7.6 per 100k vs 1.5 per 100k).

Ecuador's Time Zones Count is 3.0x that of Peru (4.0 time zones vs 1.0 time zones).

Key Comparisons

Ecuador

0.49 per 100k people

Peru

0.02 per 100k people

Capital ElevationEcuador leads

Ecuador

2.9K m

Peru

154 m

Homicide RateEcuador leads

Ecuador

45.72 per 100k

Peru

8.6 per 100k

Suicide RateEcuador leads

Ecuador

7.6 per 100k

Peru

1.5 per 100k

Time Zones CountEcuador leads

Ecuador

4.0 time zones

Peru

1.0 time zones

All-Time Olympic Gold MedalsEcuador leads

Ecuador

4.0 gold medals

Peru

1.0 gold medals

0.49 per 100k people

0.02 per 100k people

Capital Elevation

2.9K m

154 m

Homicide Rate

45.72 per 100k

8.6 per 100k

Suicide Rate

7.6 per 100k

1.5 per 100k

Time Zones Count

4.0 time zones

1.0 time zones

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

4.0 gold medals

1.0 gold medals

Population Density

72.4 /km²

26.44 /km²

Military Spending

2.2% of GDP

0.91% of GDP

Milk Consumption per Person

139.6 kg/person/yr

62.15 kg/person/yr

Firms Hit by Power Outages

74.82% of firms

33.51% of firms

1.8 per 1M people

0.82 per 1M people

Firms Making Informal Payments

12.84% of firms

6.1% of firms

All-Time Olympic Medals

10 medals

5.0 medals

Solar Electricity Share

0.11%

3.0%

High-Tech Exports (%)

10.0%

5.2%

Firms Asked for Bribes

14.4% of firms

7.6% of firms

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

5.8% of GDP

3.1% of GDP

Meat Consumption per Person

45.22 kg/person/yr

24.41 kg/person/yr

Wind Electricity Share

0.52%

3.5%

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

0.35% of GDP

2.4% of GDP

Ecuador vs Peru

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Capital Elevation

Homicide Rate

Suicide Rate

Time Zones Count

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

Population Density

Military Spending

Milk Consumption per Person

Firms Hit by Power Outages

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Firms Making Informal Payments

All-Time Olympic Medals

Solar Electricity Share

High-Tech Exports (%)

Firms Asked for Bribes

Current Account Balance (% of GDP)

Meat Consumption per Person

Wind Electricity Share

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Road Traffic Death Rate

Forest Area

Airports

Land Area

Mobile Money Accounts

Spirits Consumption

Air Passengers

Armed Forces Personnel

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Seafood Consumption per Person

Land Border Length

Foreign Patents

Domestic Patents

Water Withdrawal

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Alcohol Consumption

Broadband Access (%)

Border Neighbors

GDP (Nominal)

Irrigated Land

Railway Length

Electric Generating Capacity

Electricity Generation

Smoking Rate

Population

Water Stress (%)

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Merchant Fleet Size

Renewable Energy (%)

Women in Senior Management

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Hypertension Prevalence

Doctors (per 1,000)

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Insufficient Physical Activity

Total CO2 Emissions

Beer Consumption

Tourism Revenue

Teen Birth Rate

Death Rate

Urban Population (%)

Inflation Rate

Liberal Democracy Index

Health Spending (% GDP)

CO2 Per Capita

Government Debt (% GDP)

Scientific Publications

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Infant Mortality

Tax Revenue (% GDP)