expenditures: planned $7.3 billion, including capital expenditures
of $1.6 billion (2004 est.)
Public debt:
49.2% of GDP (2004 est.)
Agriculture - products:
bananas, coffee, cocoa, rice, potatoes, manioc (tapioca),
plantains, sugarcane; cattle, sheep, pigs, beef, pork, dairy
products; balsa wood; fish, shrimp
Industries:
petroleum, food processing, textiles, wood products, chemicals
Industrial production growth rate:
10% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
11.54 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 81% hydro: 19% nuclear: 0% other: 0% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
10.79 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
57 million kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
523,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
129,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
387,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
4.408 billion bbl (2004 est.)
Natural gas - production:
160 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
160 million cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
106.5 billion cu m (2004)
Current account balance:
$261.1 million (2004 est.)
Exports:
$7.56 billion (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum, bananas, cut flowers, shrimp
Exports - partners:
US 42.9%, Panama 14.3%, Peru 7.9%, Italy 4.6% (2004)
Imports:
$7.65 billion (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
vehicles, medicinal products, telecommunications equipment,
electricity
Imports - partners:
US 16.5%, Colombia 14.1%, China 9.2%, Venezuela 7.1%, Brazil 6.5%,
Chile 4.6%, Japan 4.5%, Mexico 4.3% (2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$1.436 billion (December 2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$16.81 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$216 million (2002)
Currency (code):
US dollar (USD)
Currency code:
USD
Exchange rates:
25,000 (2004), 25,000 (2003), 25,000 (2002), 25,000 (2001), 24,988
(2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Ecuador
Telephones - main lines in use:
1.549 million (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
2,394,400 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: generally elementary but being expanded
domestic: facilities generally inadequate and unreliable
international: country code - 593; satellite earth station - 1
Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 392, FM 35, shortwave 29 (2001)
Radios:
5 million (2001)
Television broadcast stations:
7 (plus 14 repeaters) (2001)
Televisions:
2.5 million (2001)
Internet country code:
.ec
Internet hosts:
3,188 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
31 (2001)
Internet users:
569,700 (2003)
Transportation Ecuador
Railways: total: 966 km narrow gauge: 966 km 1.067-m gauge (2004)
Highways: total: 43,197 km paved: 8,164 km unpaved: 35,033 km (2002)
Waterways:
1,500 km (most inaccessible) (2003)
Pipelines:
extra heavy crude 578 km; gas 71 km; oil 1,386 km; refined products
1,185 km (2004)
Ports and harbors:
Esmeraldas, Guayaquil, La Libertad, Manta, Puerto Bolivar
Merchant marine:
total: 31 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 241,403 GRT/391,898 DWT
by type: chemical tanker 2, liquefied gas 1, passenger 8, petroleum
tanker 20
foreign-owned: 3 (Germany 1, Greece 1, Paraguay 1) (2005)
Airports:
205 (2004 est.)
Airports - with paved runways: total: 62 over 3,047 m: 3 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 18 914 to 1,523 m: 19 under 914 m: 18 (2004 est.)
Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 143 914 to 1,523 m: 30 under 914 m: 113 (2004 est.)
Heliports: 1 (2004 est.)
Military Ecuador
Military branches:
Army, Navy (includes Naval Infantry, Naval Aviation, Coast Guard),
Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Ecuatoriana, FAE)
Military service age and obligation:
20 years of age for conscript military service; 12-month service
obligation (2004)
Manpower available for military service:
males age 20–49: 2,792,770 (2005 est.)
Manpower fit for military service:
males age 20–49: 2,338,428 (2005 est.)
Manpower reaching military service age annually:
males: 133,922 (2005 est.)
Military expenditures - dollar figure: