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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorCOLColombiaLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.77rank #67
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile41.9rank #108
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.46rank #59
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.41rank #65
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.81rank #53
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile49.2rank #109
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.77rank #67
Military spending% GDP3.4%rank #20
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.47rank #44
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile49.3rank #171
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile55.1rank #92
Rule of Law0-100 percentile47.3rank #135
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.75rank #54
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.68rank #46
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.56rank #50
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile57.5rank #98
Women in parliament% seats29.4%rank #75
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.78rank #68
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment14.2%rank #93
Agriculture value added% GDP9.9%rank #58
Annual working hours per workerhours2,470.6rank #6
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker97,552.4rank #104
Current account balance% GDP-2.4%rank #56
Employment-to-population ratio%58.3%rank #84
External debt stocks% GNI49.2%rank #70
FDI net inflows% GDP2.5%rank #34
GDPcurrent US$457.41Brank #35
GDP growth%2.6%rank #118
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$8,561.6rank #88
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $18,778.6rank #89
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $18,665.9rank #84
Government expenditure% GDP33.3%rank #32
Gross capital formation% GDP16.7%rank #111
Gross savings% GDP13.2%rank #67
High-technology exports% manuf. exports9%rank #62
Human capital indexindex2.6rank #92
Industry value added% GDP21.8%rank #104
Inflation%5.1%rank #131
Labour force participation rate%63.2%rank #80
Personal remittances received% GDP2.9%rank #40
R&D expenditure% GDP0.29%rank #63
Researchers in R&Dper million90.2rank #74
Tax revenue% GDP15.2%rank #58
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.65rank #60
Trade openness% GDP35.4%rank #125
Unemployment% labor force8.3%rank #131
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%7.7%rank #131
Vulnerable employment% employment43%rank #123
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2417.7%rank #121
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2416.7%rank #118
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop97.1%rank #76
Basic sanitation access% pop96.6%rank #70
Child mortalityper 1001.2rank #55
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,126.3rank #64
DTP3 immunization coverage%89%rank #11
Health spending% GDP8.1%rank #17
Infant mortalityper 1k births10.5rank #52
Life expectancyyears77.9rank #74
Maternal mortalityper 100k59rank #43
Measles immunization% children93%rank #7
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%93%rank #7
Physiciansper 1k2.5rank #22
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m318.4rank #103
Road traffic deathsper 100k15.4rank #63
Smoking prevalence% adults8%rank #14
Suicide mortality rateper 100k5rank #59
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k49rank #73
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births11.5rank #84
Undernourishment% pop3.9%rank #8
Education
Adult literacy%95.3%rank #11
Education spending% GDP5.3%rank #57
Expected years of schoolingyears14.3rank #80
Mean years of schoolingyears9rank #108
Primary completion rate% relevant age97.1%rank #67
Primary enrollment% gross104.8%rank #43
Secondary enrollment% gross101.6%rank #53
Tertiary enrollment% gross59.3%rank #54
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,00013.3rank #110
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.6rank #132
Median age of populationyears31.6rank #106
Net migration rateper 1,0003rank #50
Populationpeople53.43Mrank #28
Population growth%1%rank #102
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years82.4rank #69
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands59,385.4rank #34
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age42.8rank #189
Urban population%78.8%rank #55
Climate
CO₂ emissionst92.66Mrank #42
CO₂ per capitat1.8rank #130
Electricity access% pop98.9%rank #9
Electricity from coal% generation6.1%rank #24
Electricity from hydro% generation69.2%rank #9
Electricity from solar% generation5.1%rank #53
Electricity from wind% generation0.17%rank #78
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita1,551.2rank #40
Forest area% land52.8%rank #43
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita5.6rank #110
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh186.8rank #30
Renewable electricity%77%rank #17
Renewable energy share%29.7%rank #74
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e294.2rank #160
Society
Asylum seekerspeople303,273rank #179
Extreme poverty% pop8.5%rank #20
Female labor participation%51.6%rank #105
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10017.2rank #80
Gender Development Indexratio0.99rank #32
Gender Inequality Index0-10.39rank #88
Gini indexindex54.4rank #25
Homicide rateper 100k24.9rank #75
Human Development Index0-10.79rank #66
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.59rank #81
Internally displaced personspeople7.16Mrank #37
Internet users% pop79.3%rank #99
Life satisfaction0-106rank #65
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.74rank #28
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.02rank #141
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0.05rank #101
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0.11rank #122
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.28rank #128
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people1,464rank #119
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people79,669rank #147
Youth NEET rate%23.3%rank #120
Risk
Battle-related deaths (state-based)deaths/year307rank #22
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths1,145rank #34
Hazard & exposure0-107.7rank #66
Human hazard & exposure0-108.6rank #63
INFORM risk score0-105.3rank #42
Lack of coping capacity0-103.1rank #23
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-102.4rank #21
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-103.7rank #17
Natural hazard & exposure0-106.5rank #51
Organized-violence deaths (total)deaths/year986rank #35
Socio-economic vulnerability0-104.1rank #42
Vulnerability0-106.3rank #51
Vulnerable groups0-107.8rank #67
marks the leader in each row across the selected set · ranks are world ranks in the comparison spine