Población y crecimiento económico en Ecuador. Periodo: 2010 2020

Abstract

Abstract: Economic growth is one of the main concerns of the economy since that involves aspects such as productive capacities, national income, the level of life of the population. Various studies have shown that population growth is a factor that contributes to the increase in production. Based on these foundations theoretical, this research had the purpose of analyzing the relationship between the population and economic growth, integrating other concentration factors into the analysis at the provincial level such as the number of companies, fiscal educational establishments and life expectancy for a period of 11 years. Applying a panel data methodology in the R Studio program, it was possible to corroborate that economic growth is related directly with population growth and that there is heterogeneity in growth population and economic at the provincial level, in such a way that, the provinces and cities with The highest GVA are those that have concentrated the largest number of companies and number of inhabitants, being Guayas, Pichincha and Manabí the provinces with the highest GVA and number of population.