Socio-Political and Economical Situation of Ecuador

In Ecuador, 70% of the population lives in poverty conditions, 40% from them survive in extreme poverty..

• The Housing deficit in Ecuador is 1,430,000 houses.
• 57% of houses do not have Basic Services (potable water, garbage collection, drainage channels)
• 50% of children suffer of undernourishment, 12.5% of them are in Guayas.
• 21.3% of the 2,116,588 people older than 15 years are functionally illiterate, it means, they can not understand what they read.
• 69% of Children under 5 years old, in Ecuador, live in poverty conditions.
• 68.6% of children, who didn’t get a registration in school, did it for poverty reasons.
• 11.1% of children in first grade in 2001 gave up school.
• The unemployment rate in 2004 (first trimester) was 11.1%
• 25% of population, approximately, has emigrated to other countries
• 11.3% of people old enough to work, do not have a job and 42.2% have informal employments.

Housing Deficit Frame
Source: SIISE, UNICEF, OPS, INEC, Ecuador Central Bank.

Statistics of our beneficiaries’ socio-economical situation

From the Social Balance made by Hogar de Cristo which was based on a sample of 1250 users who received houses, micro-credits, scholar support and preventive health in the year 2003-2004, we got the following results:

	Family Income per month
	Sex
	Age
	Civil Status
	Number of Children
	Education Level
	Economic Activity
	Geographic Origin
	Source: Social Department of Hogar de Cristo

Related Links
www.hogardecristo.cl
www.sin-techo.org/