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Key facts

  • Currency: Colombian peso
  • Capital city: Bogotá
  • Region: South America
  • Continent: Americas
  • Land area: 1,109,500 km²
  • Population: 51,874,024
  • Political Leader: Iván Duque (President)

Latest news (see all)

Trafficked into Spain and exploited in restaurants: Police and Guardia Civil bust network that was paying a pittance to Colombian nationals in four Tarragona eateries

Read: The Olive Press

2024-04-19

Colombian president displays interest in country's entry into BRICS

Read: TASS News Agency

2024-04-18

Dangerous 'devil hitman' from Colombia 'who excelled in kidnap, torture and making people disappear' is arrested on Spain's Costa Blanca

Read: The Olive Press

2024-04-17

Brit student, 25, arrested after 'being caught smuggling cocaine disguised as packets of milk powder' out of Colombia

Read: The SUN

2024-04-17

Scientists and NGOs call for Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica and Colombia to ratify the UN High Seas Treaty to deliver 30x30 in the High Seas

Read: Greenpeace

2024-04-12

Water levels in main reservoirs for Bogota, Colombia, hit critically low levels

Read: CBS

2024-04-11

Colombia's capital rations water for millions as reservoirs run dry

Read: CBS

2024-04-11

Metrics

Business

Central government debt 70.49 % of GDP
Expense 32.90 % of GDP
GDP 343,622,000,000.00 current US$
Inflation 10.18 annual %
Self-employed 47.10 % of total employment
Tax revenue 15.35 % of GDP
Unemployment 9.41 % of total labor force
Vulnerable employment 44.22 % of total employment


Environment

Agricultural land 427,180.00 km²
Alternative and nuclear energy 9.20 % of total energy use
Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) 79,057.60 kt
Electricity production from coal sources 11.85 % of total
Electricity production from natural gas sources 19.34 % of total
Electricity production from hydroelectric sources 64.96 % of total
Electricity production from nuclear sources 0.00 % of total
Electricity production from oil sources 0.57 % of total
Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric 3.28 % of total
Net energy imports -274.13 % of energy use
Fertility rate 1.72 births per woman
Forest area 589,426 km²
Fossil fuel energy consumption 76.69 % of total
Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 11,462.40 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Median age 27.20 years
Methane emissions 77,156.40 kt of CO2 equivalent
Nitrous oxide emissions 23,778.20 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent
Female Population 26,298,417
Male Population 25,575,607
Renewable energy consumption 31.31 % of total final energy consumption
Rural land area 1,127,200.00 km²
Rural population 9,311,387
Urban land area 5,114.56 km²
Urban population 42,562,637
Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters 1.78 % of total population


Health

Birth rate 14.20 per 1,000 people
Death rate 7.74 per 1,000 people
Health expenditure per capita 477.27 current US$
Health expenditure 8.99 % of GDP
Incidence of HIV 0.17 per 1,000 uninfected population
Hospital beds 1.71 per 1,000 people
Life expectancy at birth 73 years
Suicide mortality rate 3.90 per 100,000 population


Other

Access to electricity 100.00 % of population
Internally displaced persons, by conflict and violence 4,766,000
Individuals using the Internet 72.80 % of population
Net migration -175,051
Press freedom 1.83


Politics

Armed forces personnel 428,000
Democracy score 6.96
Democracy type Flawed democracy
Military expenditure 3.08 % of GDP
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments 28.88 %


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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders

Updated: 1 day ago

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