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Prices in Ecuador 🇪🇨

In Ecuador, diesel costs $0.82, gasoline costs $0.84 and mobile data costs $1.00. That is 8 of the 16 everyday items in the game, priced in US dollars, in USD, and as roughly how long someone on the average local wage works to buy one.

Ecuador has used the US dollar as its currency since 2000, so its prices involve no exchange rate at all: the local figure and the dollar figure are the same number. That makes it the cleanest comparison in the table with the United States and the hardest to explain away by currency. IVA went from 12% to 15% in 2024, with basic food at 0%. Fuel was subsidised for decades, and the removal of the diesel subsidy in 2025 raised pump prices sharply and led to protests. Electricity is mostly hydro, cheap in a wet year and the cause of rolling blackouts in the 2024 drought.

What things cost

ItemUSDWork time
Big Macno data
Coca-Cola (330ml can)no data
Cappuccinono data
Milk (1 litre)no data
Eggs (dozen)no data
Apples (1 kg)no data
Gasoline (1 litre)$0.840.84 USD15 min
Diesel (1 litre)$0.820.82 USD14 min
Electricity (100 kWh)$9.709.7 USD2.9 h
Natural gas (100 kWh)no data
Cigarettes (20-pack)$6.206.2 USD1.8 h
Beer (330ml)$1.501.5 USD26 min
Spirits (750ml bottle)$16.5016.5 USD4.9 h
Vape e-liquid (1 ml)no data
Mobile data (1 GB)$1.0018 min
A day's healthy diet$1.621.62 USD29 min

Most local-currency figures are printed as the source published them. The cappuccino, milk, egg, apple and petrol rows are converted from US dollars at recent exchange rates; the healthy-diet row is converted the other way. A dash means the source publishes dollars and nothing else. Work time divides the dollar price by an estimated average hourly wage, the roughest number on this page. See methodology.

How Ecuador compares

Relative to the rest of the game, Ecuador is most expensive for beer, where it ranks 13th out of 52 countries at $1.50, against a global median of $1.12.

It is relatively cheapest for diesel at $0.82, which is 59th of 61, only 2 countries in the game are cheaper.

Measured against local earnings rather than dollars, the item that takes the longest to afford here is spirits, at roughly 4.9 hours of the average wage. Dollar prices and work-time prices often rank countries very differently, and that gap is usually the more interesting number.

What the state takes

Standard rate in Ecuador: 15% IVA. Ordinary groceries: 0% on basic food. Where these come from.

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Ecuador prices: common questions

How much do everyday things cost in Ecuador?
Pricele publishes 8 everyday prices for Ecuador, each from a named source. Diesel $0.82, Gasoline $0.84, Mobile data $1.00. All figures are converted to US dollars so countries can be compared directly; the local-currency figure is shown alongside wherever the source published one.
What currency is used in Ecuador?
Ecuador uses the USD. Pricele lists every price in US dollars for comparability, and shows the published local-currency figure next to it where the source gives one rather than back-converting from the dollar price.
What is the cheapest thing on Pricele's Ecuador list?
Of the 8 items priced for Ecuador, the cheapest is Diesel at $0.82 and the most expensive is Spirits at $16.50. That is a comparison within one country's list, not a claim about value for money.
Where do Pricele's Ecuador prices come from?
Every row names its source and the date it was collected. They come from GlobalPetrolPrices.com, 19-Oct-2026, GlobalPetrolPrices.com, March 2026, WHO Global Health Observatory, tobacco tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), WHO Global Health Observatory, alcohol tax survey 2024 (most sold brand), Cable.co.uk worldwide mobile data pricing, 2023 and World Bank Food Prices for Nutrition, 2025 (converted at the World Bank official exchange rate). A pair only exists where there is a real sourced number: the table is deliberately sparse rather than padded with estimates, so a missing item usually means the item is not sold that way in Ecuador.