Last updated: 12/11/2021 Ecuador Region: Latin America & CaribbeanCapital: QuitoCurrency: USD Social Protection and Economic Data Income Category: Upper middle income Data from World Bank (2021) Population growth (%): 1.54% Data from World Bank (2020) Human Development Index (HDI): 0.76 Data from Human Development Report (2019) Poverty headcount ratio at $1.90 a day (2011 PPP): 3.60% Data from World Bank (2020) Age dependency ratio (%): 53.81% Data from World Bank (2021) Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines (% of pop.): 33.00% Data from World Bank (2020) Population: 17 643 060 Data from World Bank (2020) Gross Domestic Product (GDP): 98.81 bi Data from World Bank (2020) Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita: 5 600.39 Data from World Bank (2020) Resources on socialprotection.org Legal and Policy Frameworks Legal instrument 2 Policy document 1 Programmes Social assistance 5 Social insurance 0 Labour market 1 Other Content publications 119 databases 49 webinars 6 blog posts 26 multimedia 16 news 32 Social Protection Programmes Joaquin Gallegos Lara Allowance Ecuador - Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social, MIES (Ministry of Social and Economic Inclusion) Bono de Desarrollo Humano (Human Development Grant) Inter-American Development Bank, IDB, Ecuador - Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social, MIES (Ministry of Social and Economic Inclusion) Bono Solidario (Solidarity Grant) Ecuador - Ministerio Coordinador de Desarrollo Social, MCDS (Ministry of Social Development), Ecuador - Government Profile Zero Malnutrition Ecuador - Ministerio de Salud Pública, MSP (Ministry of Public Health) Pension for Elderly and Pension for Persons with Disabilities (Human Development Grant programme) Ecuador - Ministerio de Inclusión Económica y Social, MIES (Ministry of Social and Economic Inclusion), Ecuador - Government Profile, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, IBRD Legal and Policy Frameworks Ecuador: Decreto Ejecutivo no. 1026 que establece la segunda fase del Bono de Protección Familiar por Emergencia (COVID-19) 2020 America, Ecuador Estrategia Nacional para la Igualdad y la Erradicación de la Pobreza 2018 America, Ecuador Ecuador: Resoluciones Comité de Operaciones de Emergencia Nacional, 9 de abril de 2020 2020 America, Ecuador