Ecuador vs Zimbabwe: Population

Ecuador

17.98 million people

in 2023

Zimbabwe

16.34 million people

in 2023

Ecuador rank

72nd

Zimbabwe rank

74th

Population over time

Ecuador currently reports 17.98 million people against 16.34 million people in Zimbabwe, a difference of 1.64 million people.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.1 times Zimbabwe's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Ecuador ahead.

Ecuador ranks 72nd and Zimbabwe ranks 74th of 238 countries.

Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.