In December 2024/January 2025, Ecuador's Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INEC) published the results of the 2024 Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, Desempleo y Subempleo (ENEMDU). This report, which is published annually, calculates Ecuador's national MPI for 2024.

• Citation: INEC (2024). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2024
• Visit the INEC website for tables, methodology and code.

The Ecuador MPI was launched in a ceremony by the President Rafael Correa on 5 Feb 2016. INEC have since published estimates of multidimensional poverty annually.  

• INEC (2016). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2016
• INEC (2017). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2017
• INEC (2018). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2018
• INEC (2019). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2019
• INEC (2020). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2020
• INEC (2021). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2021
• INEC (2022). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2022
• INEC (2023). Reporte de Pobreza y Desigualdad, Diciembre 2023

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are deprived in a third of more of the 12 weighted indicators.  

Source: Encuesta Nacional de Empleo, Desempleo y Subempleo (ENEMDU): Indicadores de Pobreza y Desigualdad, 2024.

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country.     

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for Ecuador based on ENSANUT year 2018.  

Official institution responsible for poverty statistics  

• National Institute of Statistics and Census (INEC) 

Additional Materials

• Launch website in 2017

Events  

• 25 September 2014 | Intervention by H.E. Cecilia Vaca Jones, Minister of Social Development at UNGA 69 Side Event
• 27 September 2015 | Intervention by H.E. Cecilia Vaca Jones, Minister Coordinator of Social Development at UNGA 70 Side Event
• 7 March 2016 | Intervention by José Rosero, Executive Director, National Institute of Statistics and Census, Ecuador at UNSC 47 Side Event
• 22 September 2016 | Intervention by H.E. Horacio Sevilla, Ambassador to the UN, on behalf of H.E. Gabriela Rosero, Minister of Social Development of Ecuador
• 7 March 2017 | Intervention by David Vera, Executive Director, National Institute of Statistics and Census, Ecuador at UNSC 48 Side Event
• 7 March 2018 | Intervention by Reinaldo Cervantes, Executive Director, National Institute of Statistics, Ecuador at UNSC 49 Side Event
• 24 September 2020 | Intervention by H.E. María Alejandra Muñoz, Vice President of Ecuador 

Press Releases

• 2017 | 1,9 millones de personas dejaron de ser pobres multidimensionales en seis años   

Voluntary National Reviews 

• 2018 | Examen Nacional Voluntario Ecuador 2018, pp. 15, 29, 30-1
• 2020 | Examen Nacional Voluntario Ecuador 2020, p. 45
• 2024 | Ecuador Voluntary National Review 2024, pp. 14, 53, 55