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

Ecuador
1.24 million metric tons
in 2024
Norway
1.67 million metric tons
in 2024
Ecuador rank
11th
Norway rank
8th

Seafood production: wild fish catch vs. aquaculture over time

  • Ecuador
  • Norway
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How they compare

Norway currently reports 1.67 million metric tons against 1.24 million metric tons in Ecuador, a difference of 431,210 metric tons.

That makes Norway's figure about 1.3 times Ecuador's.

The two have swapped places 6 times across 65 shared years of data; in 1960 it was Norway ahead.

Ecuador ranks 11th and Norway ranks 8th 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
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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.