deforestation; soil erosion; desertification; water pollution; pollution from oil production wastes in ecologically sensitive areas of the Amazon Basin and Galapagos Islands
party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protection, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Climate Change-Paris Agreement, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 2006, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
particulate matter emissions: 14.91 micrograms per cubic meter (2016 est.)
carbon dioxide emissions: 41.15 megatons (2016 est.)
methane emissions: 23.51 megatons (2020 est.)
municipal: 1.293 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)
industrial: 549 million cubic meters (2017 est.)
agricultural: 8.076 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)
442.4 billion cubic meters (2017 est.)
tropical along coast, becoming cooler inland at higher elevations; tropical in Amazonian jungle lowlands
agricultural land: 29.7% (2018 est.)
arable land: 4.7% (2018 est.)
permanent crops: 5.6% (2018 est.)
permanent pasture: 19.4% (2018 est.)
forest: 38.9% (2018 est.)
other: 31.4% (2018 est.)
forest revenues: 0.27% of GDP (2018 est.)
coal revenues: 0% of GDP (2018 est.)
urban population: 64.4% of total population (2021)
rate of urbanization: 1.62% annual rate of change (2020-25 est.)
degree of risk: high (2020)
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne diseases: dengue fever and malaria
municipal solid waste generated annually: 5,297,211 tons (2015 est.)
municipal solid waste recycled annually: 683,340 tons (2015 est.)
percent of municipal solid waste recycled: 12.9% (2015 est.)
NOTE: The information regarding Ecuador on this page is re-published from the 2021 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Ecuador 2021 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Ecuador 2021 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.
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