HIVOS-IICD Strategic Partnership evaluation web site
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ICT profile in Ecuador
Human Development Index: 0,765 (ranking 83rd out of 177, medium-development country)- Area: 256.370 km²
- Population (2005): 13.228.000, population density: 47/km²
- GDP (PPP, 2005): 57,04 billion US$ ; GDP per capital, 4.316 US$ (113th of 181)
- Human Poverty Index (HPI-1): 18 out of 102 countries ranked for HPI-1
- Telephone lines (per 1000 people-2004): fixed - 124; mobile– 348
- Internet users (per 1000 people). 48
Ecuador is a mid-developed country (83rd of 177 in UNDP’s HDI rankings) in the Andean region of South America. The country has 3 very different types of territory, the coast, the sierras and the (Amazon) tropical forests, which make land communications and thus increase the importance of electronic communications. The Galapagos Archipielago is a fourth type, but essentially unpopulated, though will greatly benefit from ICT because of their isolation and for tourism and scientific interests.
The insertion of the Ecuador in the Information Society as compared with countries of similar development levels is low. Telecommunications coverage is moderate but growing, with an exploding growth of mobile telephony
(as in many parts of the developing world), with about 348 mobile phones per 1000. ICT spread is reduced and slow to take off. Internet penetration is rather modest, and it has amongst the highest costs for Internet connectivity in the world. The Government has not taken significant action, although pressure from the public
as the well as private sector together with the setting up of a number of official entities related to ICT allow to
envisage an acceleration of the digital era in Ecuador