Reviewed archive · July 4, 2026
Ecuador received $1.8567 billion in Q1 2026 remittances
Originally published July 4, 2026 · Reviewed September 25, 2026
Ecuador received $1.8567 billion in workers' remittances during January–March 2026, the Central Bank reported on July 9. That was 7.7% more than in the same quarter of 2025. The comparison is year over year; it does not establish an acceleration relative to the immediately preceding quarter.
The United States accounted for 77.6% of the Q1 total. Together with Spain and Italy, it supplied 93.7%, leaving 6.3% from all other origin countries. That concentration means changes in those three migration corridors could have an outsized effect on future inflows, although the Q1 statistics do not predict such changes.
Private banks received 63.1% of the remittance value. Within that bank-received portion, 77.8% went directly into savings or checking accounts. Those two percentages have different denominators: it would be incorrect to say 77.8% of all remittances were deposited in accounts on the basis of this release.
The bank says its series uses transaction-level records with validation and geographic coding. These are flows received by households, not government revenue or a measure of how much recipients spent. The figures are for the first quarter only and may be superseded by later central-bank releases.
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