The number of people living below Colombia’s poverty line dropped while people who consider themselves poor went up, according to statistics agency DANE. In its annual report on poverty, DANE…
Colombia’s poverty rate dropped 3.2 percentage points to 39.3% in 2021 as the country tried to recover from the coronavirus pandemic, according to statistics agency DANE. This implies that an…
The number of people who identify themselves as right-wing has decreased dramatically since 2019, according to Colombia’s statistics agency DANE. The statistics agency asked people to ranked their political bias…
The economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic destroyed almost 9% of Colombia’s small businesses, according to a government poll. Statistics agency DANE said Wednesday that its annual small business…
Colombia’s inflation rose to 3.8% in 2019 driven largely by soaring price hikes of basic food products, according to statistics agency DANE. The increase in inflation was “good news,” DANE…
Colombia’s main black minority organization accused statistics organization DANE of “statistical genocide” after reducing the country’s Afro-Colombian population from 10% to 6%. Some 4.3 million people, approximately 10% of the…
Colombia’s statistics agency DANE published the results of a survey on victimization that was not consistent with other surveys and left more questions than answers. Most notably, the DANE found…
Millions in Colombia who make minimum wage, and some even less, have gone from “lower class” to “middle class” overnight. The new measures used by the country’s statistics agency DANE…
Colombia’s population is aging rapidly with age profiles having dramatically changed since 1985, according to statistics agency (DANE). The percentage of people aged older than 60 years has increased from 3.98%…