The economy of Ecuador is based mostly on exports of oil, bananas, shrimp, gold, other primary agricultural products and money transfers from nearly a million Ecuadorian emigrants employed abroad.
Quito
17,483,326
Spanish
$29.325 billion
United States 30%, China 13%, Panama 8%, Chile 7% (2019)
crude petroleum, shrimp, bananas, refined petroleum, tuna (2021)
$28.567 billion
United States 22%, China 18%, Colombia 9%, Panama 5% (2019)
refined petroleum, coal tar oil, cars, packaged medicines, soybean products (2019)