Ecuador straddles the equator on South America's west coast and is home to the Galápagos Islands, which inspired Darwin's theory of evolution.
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These figures are calculated from the data on this page and compared with the other 195 countries Beelad covers.
| Population density | 63 people per km² rank 122 of 196 (highest first); the average across all 196 countries is 60 per km² |
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| Share of world population | 0.222 % world total: 8,091,734,930 (UN, 1 July 2023) |
| Share of South America | 4.2% of its people, 1.6% of its land area |
| Area in square miles | 109,483 1 km² = 0.386 sq mi |
| Closest in size | Burkina Faso (274,222 km²) |
| Closest in population | Senegal (18,077,573 people) |
6 other countries in our list also use USD: El Salvador, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Timor-Leste, United States.