Two provinces hold 44% of Ecuador’s people: Guayas (4.39 million) and Pichincha (3.09 million) together account for about 7.5 million of the country’s 16,938,986 residents counted in the 2022 census.
Ecuador is divided into 24 provinces, from coastal Guayas to the sparsely settled Amazon and the Galápagos Islands. This post ranks all 24 by population and looks at what the numbers show.
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All 24 provinces ranked by population
Guayas leads by about 1.3 million over Pichincha, and the smallest province, Galápagos, has fewer than 29,000 residents. Figures are from the 2022 census, from Wikipedia’s provinces table.
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Province
Capital
Population (2022)
1
Guayas
Guayaquil
4,391,923
2
Pichincha
Quito
3,089,473
3
Manabí
Portoviejo
1,592,840
4
Los Ríos
Babahoyo
898,652
5
Azuay
Cuenca
801,609
6
El Oro
Machala
714,592
7
Tungurahua
Ambato
563,532
8
Esmeraldas
Esmeraldas
553,900
9
Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas
Santo Domingo
492,969
10
Loja
Loja
485,421
11
Chimborazo
Riobamba
471,933
12
Cotopaxi
Latacunga
470,210
13
Imbabura
Ibarra
469,879
14
Santa Elena
Santa Elena
385,735
15
Cañar
Azogues
227,578
16
Bolívar
Guaranda
199,078
17
Sucumbíos
Nueva Loja
199,014
18
Morona Santiago
Macas
192,508
19
Orellana
Puerto Francisco de Orellana
182,166
20
Carchi
Tulcán
172,828
21
Napo
Tena
131,675
22
Pastaza
Puyo
111,915
23
Zamora Chinchipe
Zamora
110,973
24
Galápagos
Puerto Baquerizo Moreno
28,583
What stands out
The top three hold over half the country. Guayas, Pichincha and Manabí total about 9.07 million people, or 54% of Ecuador. Guayas alone is 26% and Pichincha 18%, anchored by the two largest cities, Guayaquil and Quito.
Los Ríos and Azuay close out the next tier. Los Ríos (898,652) edges past Azuay (801,609), home to Cuenca, to take fourth place; El Oro (714,592) follows.
Most Andean provinces cluster near 470,000. Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Imbabura are within 2,100 people of each other (471,933, 470,210 and 469,879), and Loja is only slightly above at 485,421.
The Amazon is big but thinly populated. The six Amazon provinces (Sucumbíos, Morona Santiago, Orellana, Napo, Pastaza and Zamora Chinchipe) cover about 42% of the national territory but hold roughly 5.5% of the population, about 928,000 people combined. Pichincha has about 319 people per km²; Pastaza has about 4.
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