Colombia
Colombia in numbers
39 measures of Colombia from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending3.2% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$13.7B in 2025
- Military spending per person$273 in 2025
- Military share of state spending9.3% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel428,000 people in 2020
- National power0.57% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers1.7% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports22 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports4 million TIV in 2020
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Colombia with…
- Colombia vs India
- Colombia vs China
- Colombia vs United States
- Colombia vs Indonesia
- Colombia vs Pakistan
- Colombia vs Nigeria
- Colombia vs Brazil
- Colombia vs Bangladesh
- Colombia vs Russia
- Colombia vs Ethiopia
- Colombia vs Mexico
- Colombia vs Japan
- Colombia vs Egypt
- Colombia vs Philippines
- Colombia vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Colombia vs Vietnam
- Colombia vs Iran
- Colombia vs Türkiye
- Colombia vs Germany
- Colombia vs Thailand
- Colombia vs Tanzania
- Colombia vs United Kingdom
- Colombia vs France
- Colombia vs South Africa
- Colombia vs Italy
- Colombia vs Kenya
- Colombia vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Colombia vs South Korea
- Colombia vs Sudan
- Colombia vs Spain
- Colombia vs Argentina
- Colombia vs Canada
- Colombia vs Saudi Arabia
- Colombia vs Poland
- Colombia vs Peru
- Colombia vs Venezuela
- Colombia vs Australia
- Colombia vs Chile
- Colombia vs Guatemala
- Colombia vs Ecuador
- Colombia vs Netherlands
- Colombia vs Bolivia
- Colombia vs Belgium
- Colombia vs Haiti
- Colombia vs Dominican Republic
- Colombia vs United Arab Emirates
- Colombia vs Honduras
- Colombia vs Cuba
- Colombia vs Sweden
- Colombia vs Israel
- Colombia vs Austria
- Colombia vs Switzerland
- Colombia vs Singapore
- Colombia vs Ireland
- Colombia vs Panama
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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