Spanish, Quimbaya, Chibchas other indigenous languages.
The demographics of Colombia consist of statistics regarding Colombians' health, economic status, religious affiliations, ethnicity, population density, and other aspects of the population. Colombia is the second-most populous country in South America after Brazil, and the third-most populous in Latin America, after Brazil and Mexico.
Colombia's population has grown steadily for most of its history, although the growth rate slowed markedly in the late 20th century, due in part to emigration resulting from a sustained internal conflict. However, the economy has improved noticeably in recent decades, especially in urban areas, and living standards have risen in line with this.
The population density of Colombia. Red showing concentration of population.Demographics of Colombia, Data of Our World in Data, year 2022; Number of inhabitants in millions.
2021 Census
From January to October 2021, 9.5% of the babies were given birth by Venezuelan mothers. According to the entity during that period, there were 505,114 births and 48,075 were to Venezuelan mothers. In 2017, the birth rate of migrant mothers from Venezuela was 0%, but it has been increasing since 2020, when it was 9.1%.[11]
The births in Colombia have decreased, from 2015 to 2020, a 12.5% lower birth rate. In 2021 there were 12 births for every 1,000 people.[11]
Bogotá and San Andrés are the places with the greatest reduction in births, while the departments of Guainía, Vichada and La Guajira had the highest increases, Guainía had an increase of 108.1%.[12]
According to the 2018 census, Colombia has 48,258,494 inhabitants within its territory.[13] All the data below is available in the DANE Census results.
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Total Fertility Rate by region, 2023Total fertility rate by department 2023.
20th and 21st centuries
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According to the 2022 revision of the World Population Prospects[19][20] the total population was 51,516,562 in 2021, compared to only 12,342,000 in 1950. The proportion of children below the age of 15 in 2015 was 24.3%, 68.7% was between 15 and 65 years of age, while 7% was 65 years or older .[21]
Year
Total population ( × 1000)
Population percentage in age bracket
0–14
15–64
65+
1950
12 341
42.6%
54.0%
3.4%
1955
14 225
44.8%
52.0%
3.2%
1960
16 480
46.4%
50.4%
3.2%
1965
19 144
46.9%
49.9%
3.2%
1970
22 061
45.9%
50.7%
3.4%
1975
24 757
43.4%
53.0%
3.6%
1980
27 738
40.6%
55.7%
3.7%
1985
31 012
37.9%
58.2%
3.9%
1990
34 272
36.3%
59.6%
4.1%
1995
37 442
34.3%
61.3%
4.4%
2000
40 404
31.5%
63.8%
4.7%
2005
43 286
28.9%
65.9%
5.2%
2010
45 918
26.4%
67.8%
5.9%
2015
48 229
24.3%
68.7%
7.0%
2020
50 883
22.2%
68.8%
9.1%
Structure of the population
Structure of the population according to the 2018 census results: [22]
Movement from rural to urban areas was very heavy in the middle of the twentieth century, but has since tapered off. The urban population increased from 29% of the total population in 1938, to 52% in 1964 and about 70% by 1990. Currently the figure is about 77%. The list of the most populated cities in the country only contains the population living in the urban area of the municipalities, according to the results of the 2018 population census.[23]
Colombia is ethnically diverse, its original people descending from the original native inhabitants, Spanish and European colonists, Africans originally brought to the country as slaves, and 20th-century immigrants from Europe and the Middle East, all contributing to a diverse cultural heritage.[31] The demographic distribution reflects a pattern that is influenced by colonial history. Whites tend to live mainly in urban centers, like Bogotá, Medellín or Cali, and the burgeoning highland cities. The populations of the major cities also include mestizos. Mestizos include artisans and small tradesmen that have played a major part in the urban expansion of recent decades.[32]
The 2005 census (outdated) reported that the "non-ethnic population", consisting of whites and mestizos (those of majority Indigenous American ancestry), constituted 86% of the national population. 10.6% is of black ancestry. Indigenous Colombians comprise 3.4% of the population. Less than 0.01% of the population is Roma. An extraofficial estimate considers that the 49% of the Colombian population is Mestizo or of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, and that approximately 19-37% is White, mainly of Spanish lineage, but there is also a large population of Middle East descent; among the upper class there is a considerable input of Italian ancestry.[33]
Many of the Indigenous peoples experienced a reduction in population during the Spanish rule[34] and many others were absorbed into the mestizo population, but the remainder currently represents over eighty distinct cultures. Reserves (resguardos) established for indigenous peoples occupy 30,571,640 hectares (305,716.4km2) (27% of the country's total) and are inhabited by more than 800,000 people.[35] Some of the largest indigenous groups are the Wayuu,[36] the Paez, the Pastos, the Emberá and the Zenú.[37] The departments of La Guajira, Cauca, Nariño, Córdoba and Sucre have the largest indigenous populations.[38]
Black Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century and continuing into the 19th century. Large Afro-Colombian communities are found today on the Caribbean and Pacific coasts. The population of the department of Chocó, running along the northern portion of Colombia's Pacific coast, is over 70% black.[40]Britons and Jamaicans migrated mainly to the islands of San Andres and Providencia Islands. A number of other Europeans and North Americans migrated to the country in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including people from the former USSR during and after the Second World War.[41][42]
Spanish (of which Colombia has the third-largest population of speakers in the world after Mexico and the United States) is the official language, with 99.2% of Colombians speaking Spanish, and there are small communities in urban areas speaking other European languages such as German, French, English, Italian, and Portuguese. There are 65 indigenous languages and two Creole languages, one Creole in San Basilio de Palenque and one in San Andrés; and also San Andrés is the only place of Colombia where are three official languages: Spanish, English and a creole language.[47][48][49]
While Colombia remains a mostly Roman Catholic country by baptism numbers, the 1991 Colombian constitution guarantees freedom of religion and all religious faiths and churches are equally free before the law.[53]
Migration
Venezuelans as a proportion of total population in departments of Colombia in January 2024,Own elaboration based on data from Migración Colombia
Historically, a sizable percentage of Colombian emigration has also been motivated by the need to escape from political persecution and bipartisan violence during the periods of "La Violencia" (1948–1958), and later due to the effects of the nation's current conflict (since 1964). This has resulted in numerous applications for political asylum abroad.
Colombians have emigrated in comparably high rates to the United States. Other Colombians migrated to Canada and Europe (most to Spain, but also to France, Italy, the United Kingdom and Sweden). Among other locations.[citation needed]
↑ Because of rounding of the individual percentages, the entries in this column may not sum to 100%.
↑ This figure for each department compares to a national increase of 12.5%.
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↑ Note: Crude migration change% is trend analysis, an extrapolation-based average population change (current year minus previous) minus the natural change of the current year (see table vital statistics). The average population is an estimate of the population in the middle of the year and not the end of the year.
↑ "Nacimientos y Defunciones". Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE. Retrieved 20 September 2024.
↑ "Ethnic groups of Colombia". 2018 National Population and Housing Census. Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE. Archived from the original on 8 April 2020. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
↑ Bushnell, David & Rex A. Hudson (2010) "The Society and Its Environment"; Colombia: a country study: pp.87, 92. Washington D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.
↑ "Ethnic groups in Colombia"(PDF) (in Spanish). Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE. Archived from the original(PDF) on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 26 March 2014.
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