Ecuador scored one point on the 2020 Gay Travel Index, placing it far from the safest countries for LGBT tourism, which accumulated up to 12 points. The Latin American nation is however also a great distance away from the most dangerous regions for LGBT tourists, whose scores go as low as -20. Ecuador was one of the few Latin American countries to receive the high score of three points for anti-discrimination legislation. The Gay Travel Index found five categories of concern in the nation including religious influence and HIV travel restrictions. In 2019, there were 47 thousand people among the Ecuadorian population living with HIV, up one thousand from the year prior.
* Note from the source:
"Zero points were awarded for conversion processes if a ban only applies in individual parts of the country / states or, for example, if legal action could be successfully taken even without an explicit law."
The Gay Travel Index 2020 measured 17 categories such as anti-discrimination legislation, transgender rights, anti-gay laws, and death penalty in 202 countries or territories. Category scores range from 3 to -5. The general score for each country corresponds to the total points obtained for all categories. The best rated countries in the global ranking that year were Canada, Malta, and Sweden (12 points) while Chechnya got the lowest index score (-20 points).
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Spartacus International Gay Guide. (March 12, 2020). Gay Travel Index in Ecuador in 2020, by category [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 19, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1174412/ecuador-gay-travel-index-score/
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Spartacus International Gay Guide. (2020). Gay Travel Index in Ecuador in 2020, by category. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 19, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1174412/ecuador-gay-travel-index-score/
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