Ecuador

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Basic Country Information

Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Income Group: Upper Middle Income
Population: 18.14 million
GNI per Capita: 6875 USD
Urban population: 65% of total
Life expectancy at birth: 77 years
Human Development Index (HDI): 0.78

How does Ecuador control corruption?

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

	Integrity	Transparency
Country’s Score	6.3/10	15/20
World Rank	58/119	47/143
Regional Rank	10/23	9/23
Income group Rank	17/37	/37

Index of Public Integrity

IPI Score: 6.3 / 10

The IPI score is the mean of the six components scores, which result from the standardization and normalization of original source data to range between 1 and 10 using a min-max-transformation, with higher values representing better performance.

Components	Component Score (max=10)	World Rank	Income Group Rank	Regional Rank
Opportunities for Corruption
Administrative Burden	0	/119	/37	/23
Trade Openness	0	/119	/37	/23
Administrative Transparency	7	31/119	10/37	3/23
Online Services	8.8	20/119	6/37	2/23
Budget Transparency	8.06	57/119	17/37	12/23
Constraints on Corruption
Judicial Independence	2.75	108/119	25/37	13/23
Freedom of the Press	5.22	68/119	16/37	11/23
E-Citizenship	5.96	64/119	20/37	10/23

Opportunities are permanent enabling circumstances for corruption. Empirical evidence exists that administrative discretion (lack of administrative transparency and poor regulation) combined with unaccountable resources (non-transparent public finance, both from domestic sources and international aid) create opportunities for corruption.

Constraints are permanent disabling circumstances of corruption. They encompass the legal response of authorities as well as the response by society (a free press and digitally enabled citizens organized as civil society or as individual voters).

Societies manage to control corruption if they find the right balance between opportunities and constraints.

Transparency in Ecuador

T-Index Score: 15 / 20 (20 = 100%)

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The total fulfillment of items on De Jure and De Facto adds up to 100%
on the basis of which we calculate the individual performance of a country

De Facto Transparency: 9 / 14

De Facto Components ↓ Live, online, and freely accessible sources of public data. These data sources were assessed as complete and freely available (1 point), partial and/or paid access (0.5 point), or missing (0 points).
Past expenditures (last fiscal year)	Partial
Current expenditures (budget tracker)	Partial
Public Procurement Portal	Partial
Land cadaster	Partial
Register of commerce	Yes
Auditor General's report	Partial
Supreme Court's hearings schedule	Yes
Supreme Court's rulings	Yes
Financial disclosures for public officials	Partial
Conflict of interest disclosures	No
Official Development Assistance (ODA)	Yes
Mining concessions	Yes
Building permits in the capital city	No
Official gazette	Yes

De Jure Transparency: 6 / 6

De Jure Components ↓ Formal transparency commitments by governments. Formal agreements that met category criteria (see Methodology) were assessed as existing (1 point) or not (0 points).
Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA)	Yes
Open Government Partnership (OGP)	Yes
United Nations Conventions Against Corruption (UNCAC)	Yes
Financial Action Task Force Against Money Laundering (or equivalent)	Yes
Plurinational transparency agreement (EITI, OECD, WTO GPA, or CPTPP)	Yes
Beneficial Ownership	Yes

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Ecuador's Corruption Forecast

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

Ecuador has recorded significant progress only on government online services over the past 10 years. However, its bureaucracy and judiciary still lack sufficient autonomy from political leaders to control high-level corruption. While official pressure on the media has eased since the departure of President Correa in 2017, the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s failure to control local drug cartels limit the independence of the press.

Components	2015	2025	Trendline
Budget Transparency	8.35	5.2		-1
Judicial Independence	3.45	2.75		0
Press Freedom	6.93	5.52		-1
E-Citizenship	3.62	5.96		1
Online Services	6	8.8		1

positive change; negative change; change not statically significant.

For Budget Transparency, period considered is 2008-2019. For Judicial Independence, last value available is for 2019. Due to insufficient data on Facebook users, E-citizenship was computed as the mean of the remaining two sub-indicators (fixed broadband subscriptions and Internet users). Missing values for 2020 in either of the sub-indicators were replaced with the latest available data point.