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Topic 11 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Ecuador: Risk & Resilience
How exposed is a country to crisis, and how ready is it to cope?
Ecuador is placed 172nd of 192 countries on risk & resilience in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics. Readings behind it: World Risk Index 24.14 (2025); INFORM Risk Index 5.5 (2025).
Risk & Resilience
172nd
of 192 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 3 key statistics
01The evidence
The 3 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Ecuador on risk & resilience — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 3
World Risk Index
Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum
Why it is a key: Exposure to natural hazards set against the capacity a country has to cope with them.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0
24.14
WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk)
Lower is better
Ecuador: 24.14. Across the 193 countries in this edition, values run from 0.18 (Monaco) to 46.56 (Philippines); the world median is 4.17.
- World median
- 4.17
- Best in South America
- 1.88 Paraguay
- Land neighbours
- Colombia 39.26 · Peru 25.81
Each grey tick is one of 193 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 2 of 3
INFORM Risk Index
European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee
Why it is a key: Humanitarian crisis risk, which counts conflict and displacement that the hazard indices leave out. Correlates 0.468 with the World Risk Index.
2026 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy)
5.5
INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk)
Lower is better
Ecuador: 5.5. Across the 191 countries in this edition, values run from 0.7 (Singapore) to 8.5 (South Sudan); the world median is 3.7.
- World median
- 3.7
- Best in South America
- 2.5 Uruguay
- Land neighbours
- Colombia 5.3 · Peru 5.2
Each grey tick is one of 191 countries in the 2026 edition.
Key 3 of 3
Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)
Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame
Why it is a key: How exposed and sensitive a country’s food, water, health, ecosystems, housing and infrastructure are to a changing climate, set against its capacity to adapt — the slow-onset climate risk the hazard and crisis indices do not isolate.
2024 edition · data for 2024 · CC BY 3.0 Unported
0.476
ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable)
Lower is better
Ranked 119th of 190 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame
Ecuador: 0.476. Across the 190 countries in this edition, values run from 0.263 (Norway) to 0.655 (Mauritania); the world median is 0.45.
- World median
- 0.45
- Best in South America
- 0.347 Chile
- Land neighbours
- Colombia 0.407 · Peru 0.418
Each grey tick is one of 190 countries in the 2024 edition.
02Over time
Which way Ecuador is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
World Risk Index
WorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk) · lower is better
EcuadorWorld median
Ecuador rose from 20.45 in 2000 to 24.14 in 2025; the world median went from 4.55 to 4.17.
Every year’s figures
Year Ecuador World median 2025 24.14 4.17 2024 24.14 4.17 2023 24.01 4.27 2022 23.06 4.08 2021 22.50 4.23 2020 23.60 4.12 2019 23.41 4.23 2018 19.20 4.14 2017 18.75 4.24 2016 19.51 4.23 2015 19.42 4.04 2014 18.25 4.07 2013 19.09 4.08 2012 24.31 4.07 2011 22.13 3.99 2010 23.38 3.86 2009 20.81 3.94 2008 25.55 4.11 2007 20.29 4.41 2006 20.49 4.51 2005 20.32 4.54 2004 20.24 4.42 2003 20.40 4.50 2002 20.54 4.65 2001 20.53 4.37 2000 20.45 4.55 INFORM Risk Index
INFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk) · lower is better
EcuadorWorld median
Ecuador rose from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2025; the world median went from 3.6 to 3.7.
Every year’s figures
Year Ecuador World median 2025 5.5 3.7 2024 5.5 3.5 2023 5.4 3.6 2022 5.2 3.6 2021 5.3 3.6 2020 5.1 3.6 2019 4.9 3.6 2018 4.6 3.5 2017 4.5 3.5 2016 4.7 3.6 Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)
ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable) · lower is better
EcuadorWorld median
Ecuador fell from 0.504 in 2000 to 0.476 in 2024; the world median went from 0.476 to 0.45.
Every year’s figures
Year Ecuador World median 2024 0.4760 0.449649 2023 0.4767 0.449167 2022 0.4660 0.447422 2021 0.4584 0.447831 2020 0.4677 0.447902 2019 0.4547 0.447883 2018 0.4568 0.449652 2017 0.4601 0.450532 2016 0.4750 0.451843 2015 0.4784 0.451496 2014 0.4766 0.451502 2013 0.4832 0.454946 2012 0.4814 0.454269 2011 0.4806 0.458012 2010 0.4829 0.460715 2009 0.4882 0.464712 2008 0.4859 0.463801 2007 0.4878 0.466738 2006 0.4901 0.468701 2005 0.4892 0.470646 2004 0.4925 0.472029 2003 0.4975 0.471635 2002 0.5044 0.472031 2001 0.5028 0.476366 2000 0.5043 0.475585
03In context
Ecuador beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 192 countries on risk & resilience, never a place within the region.
1st192ndNot placed · 32 countries with too few key statisticsNo data
Ecuador and the countries it borders
The standing is each country’s place among all 192 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | World Risk IndexWorldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk) | INFORM Risk IndexINFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk) | Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)ND-GAIN Vulnerability (0–1, where 1 is the most vulnerable) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Peru | 140th | 25.81 | 5.2 | 0.418 |
 Colombia | =145th | 39.26 | 5.3 | 0.407 |
| Ecuador | 172nd | 24.14 | 5.5 | 0.476 |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across South America
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 192.
Placed either side on risk & resilience
The countries immediately above and below Ecuador in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Ecuador is ahead of the world, and behind
10 more statistics filed under risk & resilience, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median3
Statistics on which Ecuador does better than the middle country measured.
Water StressFAO · 2023 · world median 101.1410▲ Improved since 2013
Ecuador: 1.14 · world median 10 · Freshwater withdrawal as a share of available resources (%). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0.03 to 3,851; lower is better.
Position 157th of 177 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Renewable Internal Freshwater Resources per CapitaFAO · 2022 · world median 2,52824,8212,528No real change since 2012
Ecuador: 24,821 · world median 2,528 · Renewable internal freshwater (cubic metres per person). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 445,023; higher is better.
Position 27th of 181 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Internal Displacements by DisasterIDMC · 2024 · world median 4,7504,4004,750▼ Worsened since 2014
Ecuador: 4,400 · world median 4,750 · New displacements by disaster (people). Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 11,001,000; lower is better.
Position 82nd of 160 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Behind the world median4
Statistics on which Ecuador does worse than the middle country measured.
ND-GAIN Country IndexNotre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 · world median 47.4443.6147.44No real change since 2014
Ecuador: 43.61 · world median 47.44 · ND-GAIN Index (0–100, where 100 is best placed to adapt). Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 26.42 to 71.85; higher is better.
Ranked 120th of 190 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
INFORM Severity IndexACAPS · 2025 · world median 3.13.53.1▼ Worsened since 2020
Ecuador: 3.5 · world median 3.1 · INFORM Severity (1–5, most severe crisis). ACAPS, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1.3 to 4.7; lower is better.
Position 29th of 81 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Climate Readiness (ND-GAIN)Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame · 2024 · world median 0.3870.3480.387▲ Improved since 2014
Ecuador: 0.348 · world median 0.387 · ND-GAIN Readiness (0–1, where 1 is the most ready). Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.137 to 0.749; higher is better.
Ranked 124th of 192 by Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame.
Political Stability and Absence of ViolenceWorld Bank Group · 2025 · world median 0.171-0.6420.171▼ Worsened since 2015
Ecuador: -0.642 · world median 0.171 · Political Stability estimate (−2.5 to 2.5). World Bank Group, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from -2.506 to 1.563; higher is better.
Position 168th of 211 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end3
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Asylum-Seekers by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,8368,5711,836Moved since 2015
Ecuador: 8,571 · world median 1,836 · Asylum-seekers awaiting a decision, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 3,718,945.
Refugees by Country of OriginUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 1,2725,7231,272Moved since 2015
Ecuador: 5,723 · world median 1,272 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate from this country, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 5,224,131.
Refugee Population by Country of AsylumUNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency · 2025 · world median 12,26926,42812,269Moved since 2015
Ecuador: 26,428 · world median 12,269 · Refugees under UNHCR's mandate hosted, end of year (people). UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 2,655,191.
No current reading for Ecuador
Global Report on Food Crises. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Risk & Resilience among Ecuador’s 16 topics
Risk & Resilience is Ecuador’s 16th best-placed topic of 16. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Energyjoint 41st of 1933/3 keys
- Environment & Sustainabilityjoint 41st of 1812/3 keys
- Work & Labour46th of 1824/4 keys
- Gender & Equality58th of 1834/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge64th of 1713/4 keys
- Digital & Technology86th of 1983/3 keys
- Economy & Innovation90th of 1764/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeing104th of 2004/4 keys
- Development & Human Capital102nd of 1963/3 keys
- Governance & Institutions103rd of 1944/4 keys
- Democracy & Civil Liberties115th of 1983/3 keys
- Food & Agriculture103rd of 1754/4 keys
- Mobility & Trade97th of 1472/3 keys
- Peace & Security134th of 1774/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequality129th of 1592/2 keys
- Risk & Resilience172nd of 1923/3 keys
06The top of the list
Who leads on risk & resilience
The three countries placed highest of 192, and the leaders Ecuador can most readily be measured against.
1
LiechtensteinWestern Europe
1st of 192 · 2 of 3 keys
Photo: Guido Radig,Inkey · CC BY 3.0, greyscale
2
LuxembourgWestern Europe
2nd of 192 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium · CC BY-SA 2.0, greyscale
3
SwitzerlandWestern Europe
3rd of 192 · 3 of 3 keys
Photo: Simon Koopmann derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 2.0 de, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest in Americas
Saint Lucia21st3/3 keysHighest in South America
Paraguay36th3/3 keysThis page
Ecuador172nd3/3 keys
Positions out of 192 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Ecuador on risk & resilience: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Ecuador rank on risk & resilience?
Ecuador is placed 172nd of 192 countries on Risk & Resilience in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 3 key statistics (World Risk Index, INFORM Risk Index and Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN)). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest World Risk Index figure for Ecuador?
24.14 in 2025 (worldRiskIndex score (0–100, where 100 is the most at risk)), according to Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum. The world median in the same edition was 4.17.
What is the latest INFORM Risk Index figure for Ecuador?
5.5 in 2025 (iNFORM Risk score (0–10, where 10 is the highest risk)), according to European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee. The world median in the same edition was 3.7.
How does Ecuador compare with Colombia on risk & resilience?
Colombia is placed joint 145th of 192, and Ecuador 172nd. World Risk Index: Colombia 39.26, Ecuador 24.14; INFORM Risk Index: Colombia 5.3, Ecuador 5.5; Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN): Colombia 0.407, Ecuador 0.476.
How have Ecuador’s risk & resilience figures changed?
World Risk Index rose from 20.45 in 2000 to 24.14 in 2025; INFORM Risk Index rose from 4.7 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2025; Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN) fell from 0.504 in 2000 to 0.476 in 2024.
Which risk & resilience statistics are missing for Ecuador?
No current reading is published for Ecuador on Global Report on Food Crises. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Keep reading
Explore further
Ecuador, topic by topic
- Governance & Institutions103rd of 194
- Economy & Innovation90th of 176
- Work & Labour46th of 182
- Education & Knowledge64th of 171
- Health & Wellbeing104th of 200
- Development & Human Capital102nd of 196
- Environment & Sustainability=41st of 181
- Gender & Equality58th of 183
- Democracy & Civil Liberties115th of 198
- Peace & Security134th of 177
- Mobility & Trade97th of 147
- Food & Agriculture103rd of 175
- Poverty & Inequality129th of 159
- Energy=41st of 193
- Digital & Technology86th of 198
- The full Ecuador profile
Nearby, on risk & resilience
The key statistics, for every country
09Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
This topic does not forecast when a disaster will strike, and it does not measure financial or economic risk. Water stress is measured under Environment & Sustainability. Displacement caused by disasters and the severity of crises already under way are published here as context.
How the Risk & Resilience standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 3 indicators on this topic are keys and 11 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2024 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 3 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 192 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 3.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- World Risk Index — Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV), Ruhr University Bochum, CC BY 4.0
- INFORM Risk Index — European Commission Joint Research Centre, with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, CC BY 4.0 (via the European Commission's reuse policy)
- Climate Vulnerability (ND-GAIN) — Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN), University of Notre Dame, CC BY 3.0 Unported
The other 10 statistics on this page come from 6 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Ecuador’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Ecuador (banner) — Phelipemancheno, CC0
- Liechtenstein — Guido Radig,Inkey, CC BY 3.0
- Luxembourg — Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, CC BY-SA 2.0
- Switzerland — Simon Koopmann derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 2.0 de
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Ecuador: Risk & Resilience — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/ecuador/risk