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Citizens of Ecuador
Ecuadorians Ecuatorianos
Flag of Ecuador; symbol of Ecuadorian unity
Total population
c. 18.5 million (Diaspora) c. 1.5m
Regions with significant populations
Ecuador 17.8 million (2021 est.)[1][2]
United States
717,995[3]
Spain
444,347 [4][5]
Italy
66,590[6]
Chile
42,022[7]
Canada
25,410[8]
Germany
16,000[9]
Colombia
11,404[10]
France
10,249[11]
United Kingdom
9,422[12]
Peru
8,000[13]
Sweden
2,627[14]
Brazil
2,000[13]
Mexico
3,000[13]
Australia
3,000[13]
Japan
2,000[13]
Languages
Ecuadorian Spanish, Amerindian languages
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic; Protestant[15]
Related ethnic groups
Other Latin Americans, Indigenous people of the Americas, Europeans
Ecuadorians (Spanish: ecuatorianos) are people identified with the South American country of Ecuador. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Ecuadorian.
Numerous indigenous cultures inhabited what is now Ecuadorian territory for several millennia before the expansion of the Inca Empire in the fifteenth century. The Las Vegas culture of coastal Ecuador is one of the oldest cultures in the Americas. The Valdivia culture is another well-known early Ecuadorian culture. Spaniards arrived in the sixteenth century, as did sub-Saharan Africans who were enslaved and transported across the Atlantic by Spaniards and other Europeans. The modern Ecuadorian population is principally descended from these three ancestral groups.
As of the 2022 census, 77.5% of the population identified as "Mestizos", a mix of Spanish and Indigenous American ancestry, up from 71.9% in 2000. The percentage of the population which identifies as "white" was 2.2%, which fell from 6.1% in 2010 and 10.5% in 2000.[16] Amerindians account for 7.7% of the population and 4.8% of the population consists of Afro-Ecuadorians.[17][18]
Other statistics put the Mestizo population at 55% to 65% and the indigenous population at 25%.[19] Genetic research indicates that the ancestry of Ecuadorian Mestizos is predominantly Indigenous.[20]
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^"Población por comunidades y provincias, país de nacimiento, edad (Grupos quinquenales) y sexo".
^Immigration to Spain
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^"Servicio de migraciones". www.serviciomigraciones.cl.
^"Ethnic Origin, both sexes, age (total), Canada, 2016 Census – 25% Sample data". Canada 2016 Census. Statistics Canada. 2019-02-20. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
^"Ausländeranteil in Deutschland 2021". Destatis.
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^"Ecuador - Emigrantes totales". December 2019. Retrieved 8 June 2019.
^"Trends in International Migrant Stock: Migrants by Destination and Origin: Table 16: Total migrant stock at mid-year by origin and by major area, region, country or area of destination, 2015" (XLS). United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
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^"Befolkning efter födelseland, ålder, kön och år". Retrieved 23 February 2020.
^The Latin American Socio-Religious Studies Program / Programa Latinoamericano de Estudios Sociorreligiosos (PROLADES) Archived 12 January 2018 at the Wayback Machine PROLADES Religion in America by country
^"Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022". 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^"Censo de Población y Vivienda 2022". 21 September 2023. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
^Población del país es joven y mestiza, dice censo del INEC. (Census results, in Spanish) eluniverso.com (2011-09-02)
^ Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities (2013), p. 422. Edited by Carl Skutsch
^Zambrano, Ana Karina; Gaviria, Aníbal; Cobos-Navarrete, Santiago; Gruezo, Carmen; Rodríguez-Pollit, Cristina; Armendáriz-Castillo, Isaac; García-Cárdenas, Jennyfer M.; Guerrero, Santiago; López-Cortés, Andrés; Leone, Paola E.; Pérez-Villa, Andy; Guevara-Ramírez, Patricia; Yumiceba, Verónica; Fiallos, Gisella; Vela, Margarita; Paz-y-Miño, César (2019). "The three-hybrid genetic composition of an Ecuadorian population using AIMs-InDels compared with autosomes, mitochondrial DNA and Y chromosome data". Scientific Reports. 9 (1): 9247. Bibcode:2019NatSR...9.9247Z. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-45723-w. PMC 6592923. PMID 31239502. S2CID 195354041.
cultural. For most Ecuadorians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Ecuadorian. Numerous indigenous...
Afro-Ecuadorian background. Until the 1960s, very few Ecuadorians migrated to the United States. Between the years of 1930 to 1959, 11,025 Ecuadorians received...
This is a list of notable Ecuadorians. This list needs to be edited. See Presidents section. Carmen Acevedo Vega (1913–2006) - poet and writer Jorge Enrique...
Ecuadorians out of the country. However, a rebound economy in the 2000s in urban centres improved the situation of living standards for Ecuadorians in...
Lebanese Ecuadorians are Ecuadorians who are descended from migrants from Lebanon. There are approximately 100,000 Lebanese people and their descendants...
abolished slavery in 1851. The descendants of enslaved Ecuadorians are among today's Afro-Ecuadorian population. The Liberal Revolution of 1895 under Eloy...
2005. Since then, it has decreased to 135,275 as of 2018, because many Ecuadorians acquired Spanish citizenship by naturalization, and also because some...
Croatian Ecuadorians are Ecuadorians who are descended from migrants from Croatia. There are approximately 4,000 Croats and their descendants living in...
Ecuadorians in the United Kingdom (Spanish: Ecuatorianos en el Reino Unido) include people of Ecuadorian ancestry living in the United Kingdom, who have...
Advisor Jake Sullivan said that the US was "committed to supporting Ecuadorians' security & prosperity & bolstering cooperation w/partners to ensure...
strong among the small population of Afro-Ecuadorians that account for no more than 10%. Close to 80% of Ecuadorians are Roman Catholic, although the indigenous...
The Ecuadorian Navy (Spanish: Armada del Ecuador) is an Ecuadorian entity responsible for the surveillance and protection of national maritime territory...
Indigenous peoples in Ecuador, or Native Ecuadorians, are the groups of people who were present in what became Ecuador before the Spanish colonization...
Dominican Spanish. New York City has a large Ecuadorian American ethnic enclaves, and there are over 210,000 Ecuadorians in the city as of 2013[update], making...
Colombia. The troops of Gran Colombia (Less than half of its troops were Ecuadorians), is defeated in the Battle of Punta Malpelo and the combat of crosses...
Serie A, is a professional football league in Ecuador. At the top of the Ecuadorian football league system, it is the country's premier football competition...
Caribbean Central American Chilean Colombian Costa Rican Cuban Dominican Ecuadorian Equatoguinean Guatemalan Honduran Mexican Murcian New Mexican Nicaraguan...
descendants of the Floreana-Germans have been assimilated into the local Ecuadorian population or re-immigrated to Germany. Paraguay : 166,000 Standard German-speakers...
Andean-Ecuadoran music. Musical traditions have been of vital importance for Ecuadorians, especially for the Andean and indigenous peoples. This dates back even...
Italian Ecuadorians (Italian: italo-ecuadoriani; Spanish: ítalo-ecuatorianos) are Ecuadorian-born citizens who are fully or partially of Italian descent...
about his connection to the Russian government. While Assange was in the Ecuadorian embassy, The Guardian published a number of articles pushing the narrative...
Ecuadorian Civil War may refer to any of the following civil wars in Ecuador: Ecuadorian Civil War of 1833-1835 [es] Ecuadorian Civil War of 1859-1860 [es]...
of all fighting would become a small outpost called Tiwintza by the Ecuadorians (and Tiwinza or Tihuintsa by the Peruvians) until the signing of a ceasefire...
with Bolivia. A playoff saw the Bolivians emerge triumphantly and the Ecuadorians finished the competition with the bronze medal. After finishing fourth...
The Ecuadorian Air Force (Spanish: Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana, FAE) is the air branch of the Armed Forces of Ecuador. To develop the military air wing, in...
Global Information
Ecuador 17.8 million (2021 est.)[1][2]
United States
Spain
Italy
Chile
Canada
Germany
Colombia
France
United Kingdom
Peru
Sweden
Brazil
Mexico
Australia
Japan