Ecuador's international tourism, number of departures was 1.52 million in 2019, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 86.12% from 814,000 in 2009 (6.41% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 1.52 million | 2019 |
| Five years earlier | 1.1 million | 2014 |
| Ten years earlier | 814,000 | 2009 |
| Highest | 1.52 million | 2019 |
| Lowest | 271,000 | 1995 |
| Average since 2010 | 1.2 million | 2010–2019 |
| First recorded | 271,000 |
What the numbers say
In 2019, Ecuador's international tourism, number of departures rose 8.1% on 2018 (from 1.4 million to 1.52 million).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2018), the average change was +7.7% and a typical year strayed about 8.6% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 34.7% in 2000 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.7% in 2014. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2010 to 2019 the straight-line trend is upward, about 64,473 a year. A straight line explains 96% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 1.69 million for 2022. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2017 to 2019 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 18,536, against 68,000 for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2019, Ecuador had the 19th highest value of the 21 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Ecuador | 1.52 million | 2019 |
| World | 2.03 billion | 2019 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 140.81 million | 2019 |
| Upper middle income | 444.87 million | 2019 |
Closest to Ecuador in the 2019 ranking
- Zimbabwe — 16th of 21: 3.28 million
- Uruguay — 17th of 21: 2.2 million
- Cyprus — 18th of 21: 1.58 million
- Fiji — 20th of 21: 174,000
- Sierra Leone — 21st of 21: 122,000
What this measures
International outbound tourists are the number of departures that people make from their country of usual residence to any other country for any purpose other than a remunerated activity in the country visited. The data on outbound tourists refer to the number of departures, not to the number of people traveling. Thus a person who makes several trips from a country during a given period is counted each time as a new departure.
Limitations: Tourism can be either domestic or international. The data refers to international tourism, where the traveler's country of residence differs from the visiting country. International tourism consists of inbound (arrival) and outbound (departures) tourism. The data are from the World Tourism Organization (WTO), a United Nations agency. The data on inbound and outbound tourists refer to the number of arrivals and departures, not to the number of people traveling.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a gap-filled total.
All 25 values
| Year | International tourism, number of departures |
|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,515,000 |
| 2018 | 1,402,000 |
| 2017 | 1,347,000 |
| 2016 | 1,366,000 |
| 2015 | 1,221,000 |
| 2014 | 1,096,000 |
| 2013 | 1,138,000 |
| 2012 | 1,022,000 |
| 2011 | 1,022,000 |
| 2010 | 899,000 |
| 2009 |
International tourism, number of departures in nearby economies
- Argentina — 15.35 million (2019)
- Bolivia — 432,000 (2020)
- Brazil — 10.63 million (2018)
- Chile — 4.09 million (2019)
- Colombia — 1.28 million (2020)
- Costa Rica — 324,000 (2020)
- Cuba — 271,000 (2020)
- Dominican Republic — 210,000 (2020)
- El Salvador — 515,000 (2020)
- Guatemala — 507,800 (2020)
More private sector & trade data for Ecuador
- Merchandise trade (% of GDP) — 53.56% (2025)
- Merchandise imports (current US$) — US$32.65 billion (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$) — US$37.15 billion (2025)
- Merchandise imports from high-income economies (% of total merchandise imports) — 51.84% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies outside region (% of total merchandise imports) — 26.48% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Latin America & the Caribbean (% of total merchandise imports) — 21.54% (2023)
- Merchandise imports from low- and middle-income economies in Sub-Saharan Africa (% of total merchandise imports) — 0.06% (2023)
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Questions people ask
- What is Ecuador's international tourism, number of departures?
- 1.52 million in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 459.04% from 271,000 in 1995 (7.43% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was 1.52 million in 2019 and the lowest 271,000 in 1995.
- How does Ecuador rank?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator ST.INT.DPRT, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Yearbook of Tourism Statistics, Compendium of Tourism Statistics and data files, UN Tourism Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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