El precio del petróleo y su relación con el PIB y el PIB per capita en el Ecuador (2010-2016).

Abstract

In Ecuador since the discovery of oil, brought positive results for the country, so much was its heyday, that came to surpass the agricultural and industrial sector, with the passage of the years by international crises and price variations this resource was affected, having large declines as it was in the 2015 period of $ 41.88 and 2016 $ 34.96 according to research carried out in other countries it is concluded that when a country is a net exporter of oil, when there are increases in the price of oil the economy improvement, and when these are reduced the economy is affected in a certain aspect, in this context the present case study is to analyze the price of oil and its relation to GDP and GDP per capita in Ecuador in the 2010 periods until 2016 by means of a documented information, database and statistical program that allows to know the correlation between the aforementioned variables, whose methodology is of a quantitative approach, since by means of statistical data and with the statistical program they were merged to obtain the results. Which were that the prices of the barrel of oil in Ecuador in the period 2010 until 2016 has a negative correlation with the variables GDP and GDP per capita, this indicates that as prices decrease the GDP and GDP per capita are not seen affected, due to the fact that the country owns mostly its non-oil sector income.