Brazil vs Ecuador: Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture

Brazil
882,935 metric tons
in 2024
Ecuador
1.24 million metric tons
in 2024
Brazil rank
14th
Ecuador rank
11th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

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How they compare

Ecuador currently reports 1.24 million metric tons against 882,935 metric tons in Brazil, a difference of 353,105 metric tons.

That makes Ecuador's figure about 1.4 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Ecuador ahead.

Brazil ranks 14th and Ecuador ranks 11th of 215 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture
Unit
metric tons
Source
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), via World Bank (2026) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
215 places, 12,849 data points, 1960–2024
Last refreshed

Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Capture fishery production is the volume of wild fish catches landed for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes.