fact sheets

Inflation

Colombia’s average monthly inflation rate was 10.5% in 2022 after a two-year increase in consumption prices. Last year’s inflation rate was the highest of the 21st century and attributed to…

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Guainia

Guainia is one of Colombia’s least populated provinces as it is almost entirely covered with dense Amazon rainforest.   Skip to Summary | Map | Socio-economics | Places to go |…

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Forced disappearances

More than 150,000 people were disappeared during Colombia’s half-a-century armed conflict, according to the National Victims Registry. More than half of them are still missing. The number of forcibly disappeared…

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Extrajudicial executions

Colombia’s so-called “false positives” scandal is centered around the extrajudicial killings of thousands of civilians by the military that dressed their victims as guerrillas to present them as combat kills…

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Drug trafficking in Colombia

Some 4% of the world’s population has consumed cocaine in his or her life. That is almost 300 million people. Approximately half of this cocaine comes from Colombia. In 2016, 18 million…

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