The figure, from the Interior Ministry and shared in local media, represents a 50 percent rise compared to the 196 homicides of children reported between January and June 2024.

Most victims died due to collateral armed attacks on organized crime groups, especially in Ecuadorian coastal provinces.

Official statistics state that adolescents aged 15 and 17 years account for the highest number of deaths, with 237 cases.

The increase in violence occurs in a context of a general rise in insecurity, despite measures such as states of emergency and militarization, which experts and human rights organizations consider ineffective.

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