Roman Catholic is the most common religion affiliation in Ecuador. In a survey carried out in 2023, almost 69 percent of Ecuadorian respondents claimed to be of catholic faith. Whereas, the second most chosen religion was Evangelism, with 18 percent of the people interviewed. More than eight percent of respondents answered they didn't profess any religion at all, while 0.6 percent claimed to be atheists.

Ecuador: Non religious people as percent of the population: The latest value from is percent, unavailable from percent in . In comparison, the world average is 0.0 percent, based on data from countries. Historically, the average for Ecuador from to is percent. The minimum value, percent, was reached in while the maximum of percent was recorded in .

During a survey conducted in 2023, approximately 54 percent of respondents in 17 Latin American countries claimed to be catholic. Meanwhile, 14.9 percent of the people participating in the survey said they did not profess any religion.In Mexico, more than 69 percent of respondents said they professed Catholicism. Particularly in Honduras, Colombia and Ecuador, most Christians think religion is very important in their lives.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Pichincha: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 7.000 Unit in 2017. This stayed constant from the previous number of 7.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Pichincha: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 7.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15.000 Unit in 2007 and a record low of 3.000 Unit in 2014. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Pichincha: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Guayas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 16.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 14.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Guayas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 16.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 71.000 Unit in 2009 and a record low of 9.000 Unit in 2015. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Guayas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santa Elena: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 3.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santa Elena: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 1.500 Unit from Dec 2008 (Median) to 2017, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.000 Unit in 2015 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santa Elena: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 5.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 6.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 4.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 7.000 Unit in 2015 and a record low of 2.000 Unit in 2010. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Imbabura: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 1.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 8.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Imbabura: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 3.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 9.000 Unit in 2011 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in 2017. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Imbabura: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Statistics illustrates consumption, production, prices, and trade of Perfumes and deodorizors; perfuming or deodorizing preparations for rooms, "agarbatti" and other odoriferous preparations which operate by burning (including those used during religious rites) in Ecuador from 2007 to 2024.

Abstract

The World Values Survey (WVS) is an international research program devoted to the scientific and academic study of social, political, economic, religious and cultural values of people in the world. The project’s goal is to assess which impact values stability or change over time has on the social, political and economic development of countries and societies. The project grew out of the European Values Study and was started in 1981 by its Founder and first President (1981-2013) Professor Ronald Inglehart from the University of Michigan (USA) and his team, and since then has been operating in more than 120 world societies. The main research instrument of the project is a representative comparative social survey which is conducted globally every 5 years. Extensive geographical and thematic scope, free availability of survey data and project findings for broad public turned the WVS into one of the most authoritative and widely-used cross-national surveys in the social sciences. At the moment, WVS is the largest non-commercial cross-national empirical time-series investigation of human beliefs and values ever executed.

The project’s overall aim is to analyze people’s values, beliefs and norms in a comparative cross-national and over-time perspective. To reach this aim, project covers a broad scope of topics from the field of Sociology, Political Science, International Relations, Economics, Public Health, Demography, Anthropology, Social Psychology and etc. In addition, WVS is the only academic study which covers the whole scope of global variations, from very poor to very rich societies in all world’s main cultural zones.

The WVS combines two institutional components. From one side, WVS is a scientific program and social research infrastructure that explores people’s values and beliefs. At the same time, WVS comprises an international network of social scientists and researchers from 120 world countries and societies. All national teams and individual researchers involved into the implementation of the WVS constitute the community of Principal Investigators (PIs). All PIs are members of the WVS.

The WVS seeks to help scientists and policy makers understand changes in the beliefs, values and motivations of people throughout the world. Thousands of political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, anthropologists and economists have used these data to analyze such topics as economic development, democratization, religion, gender equality, social capital, and subjective well-being. The WVS findings have proved to be valuable for policy makers seeking to build civil society and stable political institutions in developing countries. The WVS data is also frequently used by governments around the world, scholars, students, journalists and international organizations such as the World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Headquarters in New York (USA). The WVS data has been used in thousands of scholarly publications and the findings have been reported in leading media such as Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Economist, the World Development Report, the World Happiness Report and the UN Human Development Report.

The World Values Survey Association is governed by the Executive Committee, the Scientific Advisory Committee, and the General Assembly, under the terms of the Constitution.

Strategic goals for the 7th wave included:

Expansion of territorial coverage from 60 countries in WVS-6 to 80 in WVS-7; Deepening collaboration within the international development community; Deepening collaboration within NGOs, academic institutions and research foundations; Updating the WVS-7 questionnaire with new topics & items covering new social phenomena and emerging processes of value change; Expanding the 7th wave WVS with data useful for monitoring the SDGs; Expanding capacity and resources for survey fieldwork in developing countries. The 7th wave continued monitoring cultural values, attitudes and beliefs towards gender, family, and religion; attitudes and experience of poverty; education, health, and security; social tolerance and trust; attitudes towards multilateral institutions; cultural differences and similarities between regions and societies. In addition, the WVS-7 questionnaire has been elaborated with the inclusion of such new topics as the issues of justice, moral principles, corruption, accountability and risk, migration, national security and global governance.

For more information on the history of the WVSA, visit https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSContents.jsp ›Who we are › History of the WVSA.

Geographic coverage

Ecuador.

The WVS has just completed wave 7 data that comprises 64 surveys conducted in 2017-2022. With 64 countries and societies around the world and more than 80,000 respondents, this is the latest resource made available for the research community.

The WVS-7 survey was launched in January 2017 with Bolivia becoming the first country to conduct WVS-7. In the course of 2017 and 2018, WVS-7 has been conducted in the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Andorra, Greece, Serbia, Romania, Turkey, Russia, Germany, Thailand, Australia, Malaysia, Indonesia, China, Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, Nigeria, Iraq and over dozen of other world countries. Geographic coverage has also been expanded to several new countries included into the WVS for the first time, such as Bolivia, Greece, Macao SAR, Maldives, Myanmar, Nicaragua, and Tajikistan.

Analysis unit

Household, Individual

Sampling procedure

The sample type preferable for using in the World Values Survey is a full probability sample of the population aged 18 years and older. A detailed description of the sampling methodology is provided in the country specific sample design documentation available for download from WVS.

A detailed description of the sampling methodology is provided in the Ecuador 2018 sample design documentation available for download from WVS and also from the Downloads section of the metadata.

Mode of data collection

Computer Assisted Personal Interview [capi]

Research instrument

The survey was fielded in the following language(s): Spanish. The questionnaire is available for download from the WVS website.

Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 89,525.000 sq m in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 83,029.000 sq m for 2016. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 72,299.500 sq m from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 98,956.000 sq m in 2014 and a record low of 34,334.000 sq m in 2010. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA003: Construction Permits: by Floor Area.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cañar: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 2.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cañar: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 2.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.000 Unit in 2011 and a record low of 1.000 Unit in 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cañar: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Esmeraldas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 2.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 3.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Esmeraldas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 2.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit in 2016 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 2012. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Esmeraldas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cotopaxi: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cotopaxi: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 1.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit in 2014 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 2017. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Cotopaxi: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Napo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 3.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 1.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Napo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 1.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.000 Unit in 2006 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 2014. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Napo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Orellana: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 0.000 Unit in 2017. This stayed constant from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Orellana: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 0.500 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.000 Unit in 2013 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 2017. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Orellana: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 3.000 Unit in 2017. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 3.000 Unit from Dec 2008 (Median) to 2017, with 10 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.000 Unit in 2016 and a record low of 2.000 Unit in 2014. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: Santo Domingo de los Tsachilas: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.

Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Chimborazo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 2,835.000 sq m in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 585.000 sq m for 2016. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Chimborazo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 542.500 sq m from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2,835.000 sq m in 2017 and a record low of 0.000 sq m in 2015. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Chimborazo: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA003: Construction Permits: by Floor Area.

Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 6,015.000 sq m in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 2,726.000 sq m for 2016. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 2,820.000 sq m from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 15,436.000 sq m in 2015 and a record low of 717.000 sq m in 2010. Ecuador Construction Permits: Floor Area: Loja: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA003: Construction Permits: by Floor Area.

Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: El Oro: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data was reported at 2.000 Unit in 2017. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.000 Unit for 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: El Oro: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data is updated yearly, averaging 3.000 Unit from Dec 2006 (Median) to 2017, with 12 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 6.000 Unit in 2013 and a record low of 0.000 Unit in 2016. Ecuador Number of Construction Permits: El Oro: Churches, Temples, Convents & Related Religious Buildings data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Census. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Ecuador – Table EC.EA002: Construction Permits: by Province.