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{{Infobox place demographics
 | place              = [[Colombia]]
 | image              = Colombia single age population pyramid 2020.png
 | image_size         = 350px
 | alt                =
 | caption            = Colombia [[population pyramid]] in 2020

<!-- main demographics -->
 | size_of_population =  52,695,952 (2024 estimate) ([[List of countries by population|27th]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dane.gov.co/files/censo2018/proyecciones-de-poblacion/Nacional/DCD-area-proypoblacion-Nac-2020-2070.xlsx|title=Proyecciones de Población DANE|access-date=10 April 2023|archive-date=10 April 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410005852/https://www.dane.gov.co/files/censo2018/proyecciones-de-poblacion/Nacional/DCD-area-proypoblacion-Nac-2020-2070.xlsx|url-status=live}}</ref>
 | density            = 46.15 inhab/sq km ([[List of sovereign states and dependent territories by population density|174th]])
 | growth             = {{increase}} 0.54% ([[List of countries by population growth rate|147th]])<ref>{{Cite book |section=Country Comparisons – Population growth rate |title=The World Factbook |url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/field/population-growth-rate/country-comparison|access-date=2021-07-29 |publisher=Central Intelligence Agency}}</ref>
 | birth              = 9.8 births/1,000 population (2023 est.) 
 | death              = 5.1/1,000 population (2023 est.) 
 | life               = 79 ([[List of countries by life expectancy|34th]])
 | life_male          = 76 ([[List of countries by life expectancy|37th]])
 | life_female        = 83 ([[List of countries by life expectancy|22nd]])
 | fertility          = 1.7 children/woman (2023 official) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://2023-wpds.prb.org/|title=PRB's 2023 World Population Data Sheet|website=Population Reference Bureau}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.prb.org/|title=PRB|website=PRB}}</ref>
 | infant_mortality   =
 | net_migration      = {{decrease}}−6.7 (2023)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia.micolombiadigital.gov.co/sites/unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia/content/files/001127/56344_flujos-migratorios-de-colombianos-y-extranjeros-2023--corte-diciembre.pdf |title=Flujos migratorios de colombianos y extranjeros |language=es |trans-title=Migratory flows of Colombians and foreigners |website=micolombiadigital.gov.co |date=2023-12-31 |access-date=2024-06-10}}</ref>

<!-- age structure -->
 | age_0–14_years     = 24.5%
 | age_15–64_years    = 64.1%
 | age_65_years       = 11.4%

<!-- sex ratio -->
 | total_mf_ratio     = 1.03 male(s)/female
 | sr_at_birth        = 
 | sr_under_15        = 1.02 male(s)/female
 | sr_15–64_years     = 0.95 male(s)/female
 | sr_65_years_over   = 0.75 male(s)/female

<!-- nationality -->
 | nation             = [[Colombians|Colombian]]
 | major_ethnic       = No ethnic affiliation (87.58%)<ref name="grupos étnicos">{{cite web|title= visibilización estadística de los grupos étnicos|url=https://geoportal.dane.gov.co/geovisores/sociedad/cnpv-2018/?lt=4.456007353293281&lg=-73.2781601239999&z=5|work=Censo General 2018|publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE)|access-date=10 February 2020}}</ref>
 | minor_ethnic       = {{unbulleted list
|{{Tree list}} 
* [[Afro-Colombians|Black]] (6.76%)<ref name="grupos étnicos"/>
** [[Raizal]] (0.06%)
** [[Palenquero]] (0.02%)
** Others (6.68%)
* [[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|Indigenous]] (4.31%)<ref name="grupos étnicos"/><ref name="dane.gov.co">{{Cite web|url=https://www.dane.gov.co/files/investigaciones/boletines/grupos-etnicos/presentacion-grupos-etnicos-2019.pdf|title=POBLACIÓN INDÍGENA DE COLOMBIA RESULTADOS DEL CENSO NACIONAL DE POBLACIÓN Y VIVIENDA 2018|website=www.dane.gov.co}}</ref>
** [[Wayuu people|Wayuu]] (0.79%)
** [[Zenú]] (0.64%)
** [[Paez people|Nasa]] (0.50%)
** [[Emberá people|Emberá]] (0.41%)
** Others (1.97%)
* [[Romani people|Romani]] (0.01%)<ref name="grupos étnicos"/>
* Not Stated (1.35%)
{{tree list/end}}
}}

<!-- language -->
 | official           = 
 | spoken             = 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 [[Colombian conflict|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.

==Census==
{{Historical populations
| title =Population history 
| 1500 |6000000
| 1600 |750000
| 1700 |800000
| 1778 |891077
| 1810 |1400000
| 1820 |1300000
| 1825 |1327000
| 1835 |1687109
| 1843 |1932279 
| 1851 |2243730
| 1864 |2441300
| 1870 |2681637
| 1905 |4533777
| 1912 |5472604
| 1918 |5855077
| 1928 |7851110
| 1938 |8701816
| 1951 |11548172
| 1964 |17484508
| 1973 |20785235
| 1985 |27837932
| 1993 |33109839
| 2005 |41468384
| 2018 |48258494
| 2024 |52996664
|source = Statoids<ref name="Sin_nombre-1_4-k-1">{{cite web|access-date=15 December 2015|publisher=Statoids|title=Colombia: Population history|url=http://www.statoids.com/uco.html}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> National Censuses.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.banrepcultural.org/node/32534 |title=Atlas básico de historia de Colombia |publisher= Revista Credencial Historia |author=Calderón Schrader, Camilo |access-date=15 December 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Caída de la población indígena en Colombia, 1500-1630: tres escenarios|website=banrep.gov.co| access-date=7 April 2024 |url=https://www.banrep.gov.co/sites/default/files/paginas/lbr_colonial_graficos3.pdf}}</ref>
}}
[[Image:Densidad pop col.png|thumb|300px|right|The population density of Colombia. Red showing concentration of population.]]
[[Image:Colombia-demography.png|thumb|300px|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 [[Venezuela]]n 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%.<ref name="Nacimientos">{{cite web|url=https://colombia.as.com/colombia/2022/02/15/actualidad/1644883381_628105.html|title=Nacimientos en Colombia: 9,5% fueron de madres venezolanas en 2021|author=Laura Ramírez|date=14 February 2022|website=[[Diario AS]]|location=Spain}}</ref>

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.<ref name="Nacimientos"/>

[[Bogotá]] and [[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|San Andrés]] are the places with the greatest reduction in births, while the departments of [[Guainía Department|Guainía]], [[Vichada Department|Vichada]] and [[La Guajira]] had the highest increases, Guainía had an increase of 108.1%.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.infobae.com/america/colombia/2022/07/19/en-colombia-hay-menos-nacimientos-pero-aumentaron-los-embarazos-adolescentes/|title=En Colombia hay menos nacimientos, pero aumentaron los embarazos adolescentes|date=19 July 2022|website=[[Infobae]]}}</ref>

=== 2018 Census ===
{{Main article|2018 Colombian census}}
According to the 2018 census, Colombia has 48,258,494 inhabitants within its territory.<ref>{{cite web |title=Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018 |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/censo-nacional-de-poblacion-y-vivenda-2018 |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=16 October 2019}}</ref> All the data below is available in the DANE Census results.

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| x = 1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 11.8,12.1,12.4,12.8,13.1,13.5,13.9,14.3,14.8,15.2,15.7,16.2,16.7,17.2,17.7,18.3,18.8,19.3,19.9,20.4,20.9,21.4,21.9,22.4,22.9,23.4,23.9,24.4,25,,25.6,26.2,26.8,27.4,28,28.7,29.3,30,30.6,31.3,31.9,32.6,33.3,33.9,34.6,35.3,36,36.6,37.3,37.9,38.6,39.2,39.8,40.5,41.1,41.6,42.2,42.8,43.3,43.8,44.3,44.8,45.3,45.8,46.2,46.7,47.1,47.6,48.4,49.3,50.2,50.9,51.5

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| x = 1950,1951,1952,1953,1954,1955,1956,1957,1958,1959,1960,1961,1962,1963,1964,1965,1966,1967,1968,1969,1970,1971,1972,1973,1974,1975,1976,1977,1978,1979,1980,1981,1982,1983,1984,1985,1986,1987,1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993,1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022

| y1= 29.3,29.8,30.7,31.4,32,32.5,32.8,33.5,33.7,34,34.1,34.1,33.9,33.6,33.2,32.4,31.6,30.6,29.6,28.5,27.6,26.8,26.2,25.7,25.5,
25.4,25.4,25.4,25.4,25.4,25.1,24.9,24.6,24.1,23.8,22.6,23,22.6,22.2,21.9,21.5,21.2,20.8,20.4,19.9,19.4,18.8,18.3,17.7,
17.2,16.8,16.2,15.8,15.3,14.7,14.2,13.7,13.2,12.8,12.4,12,11.7,11.4,11.1,10.7,10.4,10.1,9.8,9.5,9.2,7.8,6.5

| y1Title=natural growth %

}}
<ref>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.</ref>

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| y1= 6.41,6.44,6.49,6.54,6.58,6.63,6.66,6.70,6.72,6.74,6.74,6.71,6.71,6.58,6.47,6.33,6.16,5.96,5.74,5.51,5.28,5.06,4.86,4.68,4.53,4.40,4.28,
4.18,4.07,3.97,3.86,3.74,3.63,3.53,3.43,3.34,3.27,3.21,3.16,3.12,3.08,3.05,3.01,2.97,2.92,2.86,2.80,2.74,2.68,2.63,2.57,2.52,2.46,2.40,2.33,2.26,
2.20,2.14,2.08,2.03,1.99,1.96,1.93,1.90,1.88,1.86,1.84,1.82,1.79,1.76,1.74,1.72

| y1Title=Total Fertility Rate

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{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
|- style="vertical-align: top;"
! colspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Rank
! rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Department
! colspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Census population 
! colspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Change, 2005–2018
! rowspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Percent of the total Colombia population, 2018<ref group="note">Because of rounding of the individual percentages, the entries in this column may not sum to 100%.</ref>
! colspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| Population density
! colspan=2 style="vertical-align: middle"| 2024 population projection
|-
! Current
! 2005
! 2018
! 2005
! Percent<br /><ref group="note">This figure for each department compares to a national increase of 12.5%.</ref>
! Absolute
!Extension km2
!Population density 2024
!Rank
!2024 population
|-
|align=center|{{nts|1}}
|align=center|{{nts|1}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Bogotá]]
|7,412,566
|6,840,116
|8.4%
| +572,450
|15.36%
|1,587
|4,996.6
|1
|7,929,539
|-
|align=center|{{nts|2}}
|align=center|{{nts|2}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]]
|6,407,102
|5,696,183
|12.5%
| +710,919
|13.27%
|63,612
|108.5
|2
|6,903,721
|-
|align=center|{{nts|3}}
|align=center|{{nts|3}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Valle del Cauca department|Valle del Cauca]]
|4,475,886
|4,161,425
|7.6%
| +314,461
|9.27%
|22,140
|209.9
|3
|4,647,367
|-
|align=center|{{nts|4}}
|align=center|{{nts|4}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cundinamarca department|Cundinamarca]]
|2,919,060
|2,280,037
|28.0%
| +639,023
|6.05%
|24,210
|146.8
|4
|3,553,293
|-
|align=center|{{nts|5}}
|align=center|{{nts|5}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Atlántico department|Atlántico]]
|2,535,517
|2,166,156
|17.1%
| +369,361
|5.25%
|3,388
|834.5
|5
|2,827,124
|-
|align=center|{{nts|6}}
|align=center|{{nts|6}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Santander department|Santander]]
|2,184,837
|1,957,789
|11.6%
| +227,048
|4.53%
|30,537
|77.8
|6
|2,376,736
|-
|align=center|{{nts|7}}
|align=center|{{nts|7}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Bolívar department|Bolívar]]
|2,070,110
|1,878,993
|10.2%
| +191,917
|4.29%
|25,978
|87.2
|7
|2,264,523
|-
|align=center|{{nts|8}}
|align=center|{{nts|9}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Córdoba department|Córdoba]]
|1,784,783
|1,467,929
|21.6%
| +316,854
|3.70%
|25,020
|76.5
|8
|1,914,778
|-
|align=center|{{nts|9}}
|align=center|{{nts|8}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Nariño department|Nariño]]
|1,630,592
|1,541,956
|5.7%
| +88,636
|3.38%
|33,268
|51.4
|9
|1,709,890
|-
|align=center|{{nts|10}}
|align=center|{{nts|13}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Norte de Santander department|Norte de Santander]]
|1,491,689
|1,243,975
|19.9%
| +247,714
|3.09%
|21,658
|78.9
|10
|1,709,570
|-
|align=center|{{nts|11}}
|align=center|{{nts|11}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cauca department|Cauca]]
|1,464,488
|1,268,937
|15.4%
| +195,551
|3.03%
|29,308
|53.7
|11
|1,574,506
|-
|align=center|{{nts|12}}
|align=center|{{nts|14}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Magdalena department|Magdalena]]
|1,341,746
|1,149,917
|16.7%
| +191,829
|2.78%
|23,188
|65.3
|12
|1,513,782
|-
|align=center|{{nts|13}}
|align=center|{{nts|10}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Tolima department|Tolima]]
|1,330,187
|1,365,342
| −2.6%
| −35,155
|2.76%
|23,562
|58.6
|14
|1,380,948
|-
|align=center|{{nts|14}}
|align=center|{{nts|12}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Boyacá department|Boyacá]]
|1,217,376
|1,255,311
| −3.0%
| −37,935
|2.52%
|23,189
|56.6
|15
|1,311,983
|-
|align=center|{{nts|15}}
|align=center|{{nts|17}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cesar department|Cesar]]
|1,200,574
|903,279
|32.9%
| +297,295
|2.49%
|22,905
|60.9
|13
|1,395,486
|-
|align=center|{{nts|16}}
|align=center|{{nts|15}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Huila department|Huila]]
|1,100,386
|1,011,418
|8.8%
| +88,968
|2.28%
|19,890
|59.9
|16
|1,192,273
|-
|align=center|{{nts|17}}
|align=center|{{nts|19}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Meta department|Meta]]
|1,039,722
|783,168
|32.8%
| +256,554
|2.15%
|85,635
|13.4
|17
|1,145,766
|-
|align=center|{{nts|18}}
|align=center|{{nts|16}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Caldas department|Caldas]]
|998,255
|968,740
|3.0%
| +29,515
|2.07%
|7,888
|132.6
|19
|1,046,110
|-
|align=center|{{nts|19}}
|align=center|{{nts|18}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Risaralda department|Risaralda]]
|943,401
|897,509
|5.1%
| +45,892
|1.95%
|4,140
|235.2
|21
|973,879
|-
|align=center|{{nts|20}}
|align=center|{{nts|20}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Sucre department|Sucre]]
|904,863
|772,010
|17.2%
| +132,853
|1.88%
|10,917
|92.2
|20
|1,006,044
|-
|align=center|{{nts|21}}
|align=center|{{nts|21}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[La Guajira department|La Guajira]]
|880,560
|681,575
|29.2%
| +198,985
|1.82%
|20,848
|50.7
|18
|1,057,252
|-
|align=center|{{nts|22}}
|align=center|{{nts|22}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Quindío department|Quindío]]
|539,904
|534,552
|1.0%
| +5,352
|1.12%
|1,845
|306.8
|23
|566,048
|-
|align=center|{{nts|23}}
|align=center|{{nts|23}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Chocó department|Chocó]]
|534,826
|440,123
|21.6%
| +94,703
|1.11%
|46,530
|13.0
|22
|605,478
|-
|align=center|{{nts|24}}
|align=center|{{nts|26}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Casanare department|Casanare]]
|420,504
|293,253
|43.4%
| +127,251
|0.87%
|44,640
|10.6
|24
|475,144
|-
|align=center|{{nts|25}}
|align=center|{{nts|24}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Caquetá department|Caquetá]]
|401,489
|420,337
| −4.5%
| −18,848
|0.83%
|88,965
|4.8
|25
|428,162
|-
|align=center|{{nts|26}}
|align=center|{{nts|25}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Putumayo department|Putumayo]]
|348,182
|310,132
|12.3%
| +38,050
|0.72%
|24,885
|15.6
|26
|388,716
|-
|align=center|{{nts|27}}
|align=center|{{nts|27}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Arauca department|Arauca]]
|262,174
|232,118
|12.9%
| +30,056
|0.54%
|23,818
|13.3
|27
|317,398
|-
|align=center|{{nts|28}}
|align=center|{{nts|31}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Vichada department|Vichada]]
|107,808
|55,872
|93.0%
| +51,936
|0.22%
|100,242
|1.3
|28
|125,477
|-
|align=center|{{nts|29}}
|align=center|{{nts|28}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Guaviare department|Guaviare]]
|82,767
|95,551
| −13.4%
| −12,874
|0.17%
|53,460
|1.9
|29
|100,497
|-
|align=center|{{nts|30}}
|align=center|{{nts|30}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Amazonas (Colombian department)|Amazonas]]
|76,589
|67,726
|13.1%
| +8,863
|0.16%
|109,665
|0.8
|30
|86,318
|-
|align=center|{{nts|31}}
|align=center|{{nts|29}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|San Andrés y Providencia]]
|61,280
|70,554
| −13.1%
| −9,274
|0.13%
|52
|1,197.1
|31
|62,249
|-
|align=center|{{nts|32}}
|align=center|{{nts|33}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Guainía department|Guainía]]
|48,114
|35,230
|36.6%
| +12,884
|0.10%
|72,238
|0.8
|32
|57,934
|-
|align=center|{{nts|33}}
|align=center|{{nts|32}}
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Vaupés department|Vaupés]]
|40,797
|39,279
|3.9%
| +1,518
|0.08%
|54,135
|0.9
|33
|47,961
|-
|align=center|{{nts|-}}
|align=center|{{nts|-}}
|style="text-align: left;"|'''[[Colombia]]'''
|'''48,258,494'''
|'''42,888,592'''
|'''12.5%'''
| '''+5,369,902'''
|'''-'''
|'''1,141,748'''
|'''46.2'''
|'''-'''
|'''52,695,952'''
|-
|}

==Current vital statistics by department==
[[Total Fertility Rate]]s (number of children born per mother).<ref>{{cite web |title=Boletín técnico: nacimientos |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/files/operaciones/EEVV/bol-EEVV-Nacimientos-IVtrim2023.pdf |website=DANE |access-date=2 April 2024}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%; text-align:center;"
|-
! rowspan=2 | Department (2023)
! rowspan=2 | [[Crude birth rate]]
! rowspan=2 | [[Crude death rate]]
! rowspan=2 | [[Rate of natural increase]]
! colspan=3 | Fertility Rate
! rowspan=2 | Registered [[birth]]s
! rowspan=2 | Registered [[death]]s
! rowspan=2 | [[Life expectancy]] 2023<ref>{{cite web |title=Principales Indicadores – cambio demográfico nacional 2020-2070 y departamental 2020-2050 con base en el CNPV 2018 |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/estimaciones-del-cambio-demografico |website=DANE |access-date=3 August 2023}}</ref>
|-
! Total
! Rural
! Urban
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Antioquia Department|Antioquia]]
|8.6
|5.2
|3.4
|1.1
|1.7
|0.9
|58,922
|35,247
|77.0
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Atlántico Department|Atlántico]]
|11.3
|5.1
|6.2
|1.4
|0.8
|1.4
|31,707
|14,213
|76.3
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Bogotá]]
|7.7
|4.3
|3.4
|0.89
|0.5
|0.9
|60,905
|34,318
|79.1
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Bolívar Department|Bolívar]]
|13.3
|4.7
|8.6
|1.6
|1.3
|1.7
|29,896
|10,472
|77.1
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Boyacá Department|Boyacá]]
|8.7
|5.4
|3.3
|1.2
|1.5
|1.1
|11,317
|7,007
|79.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Caldas Department|Caldas]]
|6.4
|6.4
|0.0
|0.9
|1.4
|0.7
|6,698
|6,623
|78.1

|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Caquetá Department|Caquetá]]
|12.1
|4.4
|7.7
|1.5
|1.7
|1.4
|5,133
|1,864
|74.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cauca Department|Cauca]]
|9.1
|4.3
|4.8
|1.1
|1.1
|1.0
|14,102
|6,655
|78.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cesar Department|Cesar]]
|13.2
|3.9
|9.3
|1.6
|1.5
|1.6
|18,123
|5,407
|76.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Córdoba Department|Córdoba]]
|11.1
|4.3
|6.8
|1.4
|1.3
|1.5
|21,077
|8,130
|78.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Cundinamarca Department|Cundinamarca]]
|8.4
|4.4
|4.0
|1.0
|1.5
|0.9
|29,038
|15,040
|79.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Chocó Department|Chocó]]
|10.9
|3.1
|7.8
|1.3
|0.9
|1.7
|6,509
|1,851
|76.9
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Huila Department|Huila]]
|12.8
|5.4
|7.4
|1.6
|1.9
|1.5
|15,136
|6,355
|76.3
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[La Guajira Department|La Guajira]]
|19.5
|3.0
|16.5
|2.2
|2.4
|2.1
|20,233
|3,115
|68.3
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Magdalena Department|Magdalena]]
|13.3
|4.4
|8.9
|1.6
|1.4
|1.7
|19,845
|6,519
|76.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Meta Department|Meta]]
|11.4
|4.8
|6.6
|1.4
|1.4
|1.4
|12,865
|5,419
|75.1
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Nariño Department|Nariño]]
|7.4
|4.5
|2.9
|0.9
|0.8
|1.1
|12,572
|7,601
|77.9
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Norte de Santander Department|Norte de Santander]]
|11.2
|5.0
|6.2
|1.4
|1.6
|1.3
|18,960
|8,556
|75.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Quindío Department|Quindío]]
|7.5
|7.5
|0.0
|1.0
|1.0
|1.0
|4,224
|4,202
|76.4
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Risaralda Department|Risaralda]]
|8.4
|6.9
|1.5
|1.1
|1.6
|1.0
|8,187
|6,703
|76.8
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Santander Department|Santander]]
|9.3
|5.1
|4.2
|1.2
|1.5
|1.1
|21,873
|11,966
|78.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Sucre Department|Sucre]]
|12.1
|4.7
|7.4
|1.5
|1.3
|1.6
|11,980
|4,625
|77.3
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Tolima Department|Tolima]]
|9.5
|6.3
|3.2
|1.3
|1.5
|1.2
|13,010
|8,693
|76.6
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Valle del Cauca Department|Valle del Cauca]]
|7.9
|6.2
|1.7
|1.0
|1.0
|1.0
|36,482
|28,700
|76.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Arauca Department|Arauca]]
|11.0
|3.6
|7.4
|1.3
|1.6
|1.2
|3,429
|1,132
|74.3
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Casanare Department|Casanare]]
|11.6
|3.7
|7.9
|1.4
|1.6
|1.3
|5,424
|1,706
|75.6
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Putumayo Department|Putumayo]]
|10.4
|3.3
|7.1
|1.2
|1.2
|1.2
|3,987
|1,249
|77.5
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|San Andrés]]
|9.8
|5.4
|4.4
|1.3
|1.5
|1.2
|608
|335
|71.2
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Amazonas (Colombian department)|Amazonas]]
|10.0
|2.5
|7.5
|1.3
|1.3
|1.2
|853
|209
|68.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Guainía Department|Guainía]]
|12.7
|2.6
|10.1
|1.5
|1.8
|1.4
|720
|146
|63.1
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Guaviare Department|Guaviare]]
|11.5
|3.5
|8.0
|1.4
|2.0
|1.1
|1,124
|338
|70.1
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Vaupés Department|Vaupés]]
|14.4
|2.6
|11.8
|2.1
|2.6
|1.2
|673
|120
|60.7
|-
|style="text-align: left;"|[[Vichada Department|Vichada]]
|12.9
|1.9
|11.0
|1.5
|1.2
|2.3
|1,589
|234
|70.5
|-
!style="text-align: left;"|[[Colombia]]
!9.8
!5.1
!4.7
!1.22
!
!
!510,357
!265,047
!77.23
|}
[[File:Isf regiones 2023.png|alt=Total Fertility Rate by region, 2023|thumb|Total Fertility Rate by region, 2023]]
[[File:Isf departamental 2023.png|alt=Total fertility rate by department 2023.|thumb|Total fertility rate by department 2023.]]

=== 20th and 21st centuries ===
{{Update section|date=October 2024|reason=include 2021 census}}
Colombian censused since 1912:<ref>[http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/la-historia-del-censo-en-colombia/20050928/nota/207142.aspx "La historia del censo en Colombia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20121205073147/http://www.caracol.com.co/noticias/la-historia-del-censo-en-colombia/20050928/nota/207142.aspx |date=5 December 2012 }}. ''Caracol''. 28 September 2005. Consulted 16 April 2012.</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Entrega de resultados Censo nacional de población y vivienda (CNPV)- 2018 |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/files/censo2018/informacion-tecnica/cnpv-2018-comunicado-3ra-entrega.pdf |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=5 July 2019}}</ref>
* On 1912 census estimated 5,472,604 inhabitants.
* On 1918 census estimated 5,855,077 inhabitants.
* On 1928 census estimated 7,851,110 inhabitants.
* On 1938 census estimated 8,697,041 inhabitants.
* On 1951 census estimated 11,548,172 inhabitants.
* On 1964 census estimated 17,484,508 inhabitants.
* On 1973 census estimated 20,785,234 inhabitants.
* On 1985 census estimated 27,837,932 inhabitants.
* On 1993 census estimated 33,109,839 inhabitants.
* On 2005 census estimated 42,888,592 inhabitants.
* On 2018 census estimated 48,258,494 inhabitants.

===UN estimates===
According to {{UN_Population|source}} the total population was {{UN_Population|Colombia}} in {{UN_Population|Year}}, 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
.<ref name="WPP 2010">{{cite web|url=http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/|title=World Population Prospects |publisher=Population Division - United Nations |access-date=7 July 2016}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
!rowspan=2| Year
!rowspan=2| Total population<br />({{times}}1000)
!colspan=3| Population percentage in age bracket
|-
! 0–14
! 15–64
! 65+
|-
| 1950
|12 341
|{{percentage bar|width=60|42.6}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|54.0}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.4}}
|-
| 1955
|14 225
|{{percentage bar|width=60|44.8}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|52.0}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.2}}
|-
| 1960
|16 480
|{{percentage bar|width=60|46.4}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|50.4}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.2}}
|-
| 1965
|19 144
|{{percentage bar|width=60|46.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|49.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.2}}
|-
| 1970
|22 061
|{{percentage bar|width=60|45.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|50.7}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.4}}
|-
| 1975
|24 757
|{{percentage bar|width=60|43.4}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|53.0}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.6}}
|-
| 1980
|27 738
|{{percentage bar|width=60|40.6}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|55.7}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.7}}
|-
| 1985
|31 012
|{{percentage bar|width=60|37.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|58.2}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|3.9}}
|-
| 1990
|34 272
|{{percentage bar|width=60|36.3}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|59.6}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.1}}
|-
| 1995
|37 442
|{{percentage bar|width=60|34.3}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|61.3}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.4}}
|-
| 2000
|40 404
|{{percentage bar|width=60|31.5}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|63.8}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|4.7}}
|-
| 2005
|43 286
|{{percentage bar|width=60|28.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|65.9}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|5.2}}
|-
| 2010
|45 918
|{{percentage bar|width=60|26.4}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|67.8}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|5.9}}
|-
| 2015
|48 229
|{{percentage bar|width=60|24.3}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|68.7}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|7.0}}
|-
| 2020
|50 883
|{{percentage bar|width=60|22.2}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|68.8}}
|{{percentage bar|width=60|9.1}}
|}

===Structure of the population===

{{Hidden begin 
|title= Structure of the population according to the 2018 census results: <ref>{{cite web |title=Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018 - Herramientas - Explorador de datos |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/censo-nacional-de-poblacion-y-vivenda-2018/herramientas |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=10 November 2019}}</ref>
|titlestyle = background:#EEBC35;
}}
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! width="80pt"|Age Group
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80pt"|Female
! width="80pt"|Total
! width="80pt"|%
|-
| align="right" | Total
| align="right" | 23 550 072
| align="right" | 24 708 422
| align="right" | 48 258 494
| align="right" | 100
|-
| align="right" | 0–4
| align="right" | 1 698 699
| align="right" | 1 621 485
| align="right" | 3 320 184
| align="right" | 6.88
|-
| align="right" | 5–9
| align="right" | 1 862 778
| align="right" | 1 780 738
| align="right" | 3 643 516
| align="right" | 7.55
|-
| align="right" | 10–14
| align="right" | 2 017 205
| align="right" | 1 925 513
| align="right" | 3 942 718
| align="right" | 8.17
|-
| align="right" | 15–19
| align="right" | 2 152 328
| align="right" | 2 055 812
| align="right" | 4 208 140
| align="right" | 8.72
|-
| align="right" | 20–24
| align="right" | 2 166 806
| align="right" | 2 137 851
| align="right" | 4 304 657
| align="right" | 8.92
|-
| align="right" | 25–29
| align="right" | 2 007 553
| align="right" | 2 026 857
| align="right" | 4 034 410
| align="right" | 8.36
|-
| align="right" | 30–34
| align="right" | 1 804 867
| align="right" | 1 857 952 
| align="right" | 3 662 819
| align="right" | 7.59
|-
| align="right" | 35–39
| align="right" | 1 703 524
| align="right" | 1 809 693
| align="right" | 3 513 217
| align="right" | 7.28
|-
| align="right" | 40–44
| align="right" | 1 428 451
| align="right" | 1 568 401
| align="right" | 2 996 852
| align="right" | 6.21
|-
| align="right" | 45–49
| align="right" | 1 360 889
| align="right" | 1 529 794
| align="right" | 2 890 683
| align="right" | 5.99
|-
| align="right" | 50–54
| align="right" | 1 327 108
| align="right" | 1 510 491
| align="right" | 2 837 599
| align="right" | 5.88
|-
| align="right" | 55–59
| align="right" | 1 153 378
| align="right" | 1 336 760
| align="right" | 2 490 138
| align="right" | 5.16
|-
| align="right" | 60–64
| align="right" | 916 911
| align="right" | 1 076 164
| align="right" | 1 993 075
| align="right" | 4.13
|-
| align="right" | 65–69
| align="right" | 699 748
| align="right" | 820 394
| align="right" | 1 520 142
| align="right" | 3.15
|-
| align="right" | 70–74
| align="right" | 501 888
| align="right" | 598 405
| align="right" | 1 100 293 
| align="right" | 2.28
|-
| align="right" | 75–79
| align="right" | 357 112
| align="right" | 443 978
| align="right" | 801 090
| align="right" | 1.66
|-
| align="right" | 80+
| align="right" | 415 967
| align="right" | 582 994
| align="right" | 998 961
| align="right" | 2.07
|-
! width="50"|Age group 
! width="80pt"|Male
! width="80"|Female
! width="80"|Total
! width="50"|Percent
|-
| align="right" | 0–14
| align="right" | 5 578 682
| align="right" | 5 327 736
| align="right" | 10 906 418
| align="right" | 22.60
|-
| align="right" | 15–64
| align="right" | 16 021 815
| align="right" | 16 909 775
| align="right" | 32 931 590
| align="right" | 68.24
|-
| align="right" | 65+
| align="right" | 1 974 715
| align="right" | 2 445 771
| align="right" | 4 420 486
| align="right" | 9.16
|-
|}
{{Hidden end}}

== Urbanization ==
{{see also|Colombia#Largest cities and towns}}
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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Población ajustada por cobertura - Censo Nacional de Población y Vivienda 2018 |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/censo-nacional-de-poblacion-y-vivenda-2018 |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=9 November 2019}}</ref>
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{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Rank
! Place name
! 2023 projections
! 2018 Census
! 2005 Census
! Change since 2018
|-
| 1
| [[Bogotá]]
| 7,875,975
| 7,412,566
| 6,776,691
| 6.61%
|-
| 2
| [[Medellín]]
| 2,573,621
| 2,427,129
| 2,223,078
| 7.19%
|-
| 3
| [[Cali]]
| 2,364,426
| 2,227,642
| 2,083,102
| 2.85%
|-
| 4
| [[Barranquilla]]
| 1,322,933
| 1,205,284
| 1,142,451
| 9.76%
|-
| 5
| [[Cartagena de Indias|Cartagena]]
| 931,503
| 876,885
| 842,632
| 6.23%
|-
| 6
| [[Soacha]]
| 778,364
| 655,025
| 396,544
| 18.83%
|-
| 7
| [[Cúcuta]]
| 777,386
| 685,445
| 567,559
| 13.41%
|-
| 8
| [[Soledad, Atlántico|Soledad]]
| 675,127
| 602,644
| 460,745
| 12.03%
|-
| 9
| [[Bucaramanga]]
| 605,047
| 570,752
| 509,135
| 6.01%
|-
| 10
| [[Bello, Antioquia|Bello]]
| 546,902
| 495,483
| 358,167
| 10.38%
|-
| 11
| [[Villavicencio]]
| 531,600
| 492,052
| 356,461
| 8.04%
|-
| 12
| [[Ibagué]]
| 503,558
| 492,554
| 468,378
| 2.23%
|-
| 13
| [[Santa Marta, Magdalena|Santa Marta]]
| 496,778
| 455,299
| 385,186
| 9.11%
|-
| 14
| [[Valledupar]]
| 490,252
| 431,794
| 299,112
| 13.54%
|-
| 15
| [[Manizales]]
| 430,259
| 405,234
| 353,138
| 6.17%
|-
| 16
|[[Pereira, Colombia|Pereira]]
| 406,676
| 385,838
| 371,439
| 5.40%
|-
| 17
|[[Montería]]
| 407,463
| 388,499
| 286,631
| 4.88%
|-
| 18
|[[Neiva]]
| 354,786
| 335,994
| 295,847
| 5.59%
|-
| 19
| [[Armenia, Quindío|Armenia]]
| 300,207
| 287,245
| 273,076
| 4.51%
|-
| 20
| [[Pasto, Colombia|Pasto]]
| 319,661
| 308,095
| 312,480
| 3.75%
|-
| 21
| [[Floridablanca, Santander|Floridablanca]]
| 323,279
| 280,025
| 243,773
| 15.45%
|-
| 22
| [[Palmira, Valle del Cauca|Palmira]]
| 285,389
| 275,254
| 228,056
| 3.68%
|-
|-
| 23
| [[Itagüí]]
| 273,885
| 247,918
| 213,187
| 10.47%
|-
| 24
| [[Popayán]]
| 277,979
| 266,561
| 226,867
| 4.28%
|-
| 25
| [[Sincelejo]]
| 273,124
| 249,323
| 219,655
| 9.54%
|-
| 26
| [[Envigado]]
| 238,618
| 215,766
| 165,462
| 10.59%
|-
| 27
| [[Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca|Buenaventura]]
| 249,730
| 235,064
| 292,889
| 6.24%
|-
| 28
| [[Dosquebradas]]
| 215,644
| 204,280
| 169,820
| 5.55%
|-
| 29
| [[Barrancabermeja]]
| 188,192
| 177,272
| 170,821
| 6.16%
|-
| 30
| [[Tuluá]]
| 190,010
| 174,951
| 160,916
| 8.61%
|-
|}

==Vital statistics==

===UN estimates===
The Population Departement of the United Nations prepared the following estimates.<ref>{{cite web |title=UN Population Division Data Portal |url=https://population.un.org/dataportal/data |website=United Nations Population Division |access-date=3 August 2022}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! Year
! width="80pt"|Average population 
! width="80pt"|Live births 
! width="80pt"|Deaths
! width="80pt"|Natural change
! width="80pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000)
! width="80pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000)
! width="80pt"|Natural change (per 1000)
! width="80pt"|Total fertility rate
|-
| 1950
| align="right" | 11,770
| align="right" | 551,064
| align="right" | 205,952
| align="right" | 345,112
| align="right" | 46.7
|  style="color:red;"|17.4
| align="right" | 29.3
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.41
|-
| 1951
| align="right" | 12,090
| align="right" | 565,988
| align="right" | 205,240
| align="right" | 360,748
| align="right" | 46.7
| align="right" | 17.0
| align="right" | 29.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.44
|-
| 1952
| align="right" | 12,420
| align="right" | 583,360
| align="right" | 202,559
| align="right" | 380,801
| align="right" | 46.9
| align="right" | 16.3
| align="right" | 30.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.49
|-
| 1953
| align="right" | 12,770
| align="right" | 600,964
| align="right" | 199,936
| align="right" | 401,028
| style="color: blue" | 47.0
| align="right" | 15.6
| align="right" | 31.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.54
|-
| 1954
| align="right" | 13,130
| align="right" | 618,002
| align="right" | 198,066
| align="right" | 419,936
| align="right" | 47.0
| align="right" | 15.1
| align="right" | 31.9
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.58
|-
| 1955
| align="right" | 13,510
| align="right" | 635,597
| align="right" | 196,985
| align="right" | 438,612
| align="right" | 47.0
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 32.5
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.63
|-
| 1956
| align="right" | 13,910
| align="right" | 653,149
| align="right" | 196,894
| align="right" | 456,255
| align="right" | 46.9
| align="right" | 14.1
| align="right" | 32.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.66
|-
| 1957
| align="right" | 14,330
| align="right" | 671,025
| align="right" | 190,300
| align="right" | 480,725
| align="right" | 46.7
| align="right" | 13.3
| align="right" | 33.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.70
|-
| 1958
| align="right" | 14,760
| align="right" | 688,958
| align="right" | 191,205
| align="right" | 497,753
| align="right" | 46.6
| align="right" | 12.9
| align="right" | 33.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.72
|-
| 1959
| align="right" | 15,210
| align="right" | 705,451
| align="right" | 187,724
| align="right" | 517,727
| align="right" | 46.3
| align="right" | 12.3
| align="right" | 34.0
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.74
|-
| 1960
| align="right" | 15,690
| align="right" | 722,255
| align="right" | 186,589
| align="right" | 535,666
| align="right" | 46.0
| align="right" | 11.9
| style="color: blue"| 34.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.74
|-
| 1961
| align="right" | 16,180
| align="right" | 738,333
| align="right" | 186,049
| align="right" | 552,284
| align="right" | 45.6
| align="right" | 11.5
| align="right" | 34.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.71
|-
| 1962
| align="right" | 16,690
| align="right" | 752,124
| align="right" | 185,533
| align="right" | 566,591
| align="right" | 45.0
| align="right" | 11.1
| align="right" | 33.9
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.71
|-
| 1963
| align="right" | 17,210
| align="right" | 763,468
| align="right" | 184,487
| align="right" | 578,981
| align="right" | 44.3
| align="right" | 10.7
| align="right" | 33.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.58
|-
| 1964
| align="right" | 17,740
| align="right" | 772,893
| align="right" | 184,027
| align="right" | 588,866
| align="right" | 43.5
| align="right" | 10.4
| align="right" | 33.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.47
|-
| 1965
| align="right" | 18,280
| align="right" | 776,098
| align="right" | 183,487
| align="right" | 592,611
| align="right" | 42.4
| align="right" | 10.0
| align="right" | 32.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.33
|-
| 1966
| align="right" | 18,810
| align="right" | 776,398
| align="right" | 182,973
| align="right" | 593,925
| align="right" | 41.2
| align="right" | 9.7
| align="right" | 31.5
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 6.16
|-
| 1967
| align="right" | 19,340
| align="right" | 774,512
| align="right" | 182,646
| align="right" | 591,866
| align="right" | 40.0
| align="right" | 9.4
| align="right" | 30.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 5.96
|-
| 1968
| align="right" | 19,870
| align="right" | 769,229
| align="right" | 181,980
| align="right" | 587,249
| align="right" | 38.6
| align="right" | 9.1
| align="right" | 29.5
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 5.74
|-
| 1969
| align="right" | 20,390
| align="right" | 762,378
| align="right" | 180,816
| align="right" | 581,562
| align="right" | 37.3
| align="right" | 8.9
| align="right" | 28.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 5.51
|-
| 1970
| align="right" | 20,910
| align="right" | 756,293
| align="right" | 179,623
| align="right" | 576,670
| align="right" | 36.1
| align="right" | 8.6
| align="right" | 27.5
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 5.28
|-
| 1971
| align="right" | 21,410
| align="right" | 751,603
| align="right" | 177,215
| align="right" | 574,388
| align="right" | 35.0
| align="right" | 8.3
| align="right" | 26.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 5.06
|-
| 1972
| align="right" | 21,910
| align="right" | 747,867
| align="right" | 174,530
| align="right" | 573,337
| align="right" | 34.1
| align="right" | 8.0
| align="right" | 26.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.86
|-
| 1973
| align="right" | 22,400
| align="right" | 749,007
| align="right" | 172,407
| align="right" | 576,600
| align="right" | 33.4
| align="right" | 7.7
| align="right" | 25.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.68
|-
| 1974
| align="right" | 22,900
| align="right" | 752,841
| align="right" | 169,838
| align="right" | 583,003
| align="right" | 32.8
| align="right" | 7.4
| align="right" | 25.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.53
|-
| 1975
| align="right" | 23,400
| align="right" | 761,181
| align="right" | 167,106
| align="right" | 594,075
| align="right" | 32.5
| align="right" | 7.1
| align="right" | 25.4 
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.40
|-
| 1976
| align="right" | 23,910
| align="right" | 772,388
| align="right" | 165,226
| align="right" | 607,162
| align="right" | 32.2
| align="right" | 6.9
| align="right" | 25.3
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.28
|-
| 1977
| align="right" | 24,440
| align="right" | 783,971
| align="right" | 163,447
| align="right" | 620,524
| align="right" | 32.0
| align="right" | 6.7
| align="right" | 25.3
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.18
|-
| 1978
| align="right" | 25,000
| align="right" | 796,756
| align="right" | 162,378
| align="right" | 634,378
| align="right" | 31.8
| align="right" | 6.5
| align="right" | 25.3
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 4.07
|-
| 1979
| align="right" | 25,580
| align="right" | 811,077
| align="right" | 162,475
| align="right" | 648,602
| align="right" | 31.7
| align="right" | 6.3
| align="right" | 25.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.97
|-
| 1980
| align="right" | 26,180
| align="right" | 819,818
| style="color: blue" | 161,752
| align="right" | 658,066
| align="right" | 31.3
| align="right" | 6.2
| align="right" | 25.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.86
|-
| 1981
| align="right" | 26,790
| align="right" | 829,626
| align="right" | 162,670
| align="right" | 666,956
| align="right" | 30.9
| align="right" | 6.1
| align="right" | 24.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.74
|-
| 1982
| align="right" | 27,410
| align="right" | 837,994
| align="right" | 163,482
| align="right" | 674,512
| align="right" | 30.5
| align="right" | 6.0
| align="right" | 24.5
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.63
|-
| 1983
| align="right" | 28,040
| align="right" | 842,011
| align="right" | 165,467
| align="right" | 676,544
| align="right" | 30.0
| align="right" | 5.9
| align="right" | 24.1
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.53
|-
| 1984
| align="right" | 28,690
| align="right" | 849,133
| align="right" | 167,428
| align="right" | 681,705
| align="right" | 29.6
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 23.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.43
|-
| 1985
| align="right" | 29,330
| align="right" | 855,217
| align="right" | 191,701
| align="right" | 663,516
| align="right" | 29.1
| align="right" | 6.5
| align="right" | 22.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.34
|-
| 1986
| align="right" | 29,960
| align="right" | 861,901
| align="right" | 173,581
| align="right" | 688,320
| align="right" | 28.7
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 22.9
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.27
|-
| 1987
| align="right" | 30,600
| align="right" | 868,789
| align="right" | 178,536
| align="right" | 690,253
| align="right" | 28.4
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 22.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.21
|-
| 1988
| align="right" | 31,260
| align="right" | 876,126
| align="right" | 182,343
| align="right" | 693,783
| align="right" | 28.0
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 22.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.16
|-
| 1989
| align="right" | 31,920
| align="right" | 884,747
| align="right" | 186,089
| align="right" | 698,658
| align="right" | 27.7
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 21.9
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.12
|-
| 1990
| align="right" | 32,600
| align="right" | 892,755
| align="right" | 190,271
| align="right" | 702,484
| align="right" | 27.4
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 21.6
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.08
|-
| 1991
| align="right" | 33,270
| align="right" | 899,439
| align="right" | 193,733
| style="color: blue"| 705,706
| align="right" | 27.0
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 21.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.05
|-
| 1992
| align="right" | 33,940
| align="right" | 901,828
| align="right" | 196,248
| align="right" | 705,580
| align="right" | 26.6
| align="right" | 5.8
| align="right" | 20.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 3.01
|-
| 1993
| align="right" | 34,610
| style="color: blue" | 903,555
| align="right" | 197,750
| align="right" | 705,805
| align="right" | 26.1
| align="right" | 5.7
| align="right" | 20.4
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.97
|-
| 1994
| align="right" | 35,300
| align="right" | 901,290
| align="right" | 199,584
| align="right" | 701,706
| align="right" | 25.5
| align="right" | 5.7
| align="right" | 19.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.92
|-
| 1995
| align="right" | 35,970
| align="right" | 897,429
| align="right" | 200,808
| align="right" | 696,621
| align="right" | 24.9
| align="right" | 5.6
| align="right" | 19.3
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.86
|-
| 1996
| align="right" | 36,630
| align="right" | 892,339
| align="right" | 202,580
| align="right" | 689,759
| align="right" | 24.4
| align="right" | 5.5
| align="right" | 18.9
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.80
|-
| 1997
| align="right" | 37,290
| align="right" | 885,195
| align="right" | 204,267
| align="right" | 680,928
| align="right" | 23.7
| align="right" | 5.5
| align="right" | 18.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.74
|-
| 1998
| align="right" | 37,940
| align="right" | 879,217
| align="right" | 206,553
| align="right" | 672,664
| align="right" | 23.2
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 17.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.68
|-
| 1999
| align="right" | 38,590
| align="right" | 874,245
| align="right" | 209,686
| align="right" | 664,559
| align="right" | 22.6
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 17.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.63
|-
| 2000
| align="right" | 39,220
| align="right" | 867,516
| align="right" | 209,911
| align="right" | 657,605
| align="right" | 22.1
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 16.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.57
|-
| 2001
| align="right" | 39,840
| align="right" | 859,788
| align="right" | 213,177
| align="right" | 646,611
| align="right" | 21.6
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 16.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.52
|-
| 2002
| align="right" | 40,450
| align="right" | 850,588
| align="right" | 212,844
| align="right" | 637,744
| align="right" | 21.0
| align="right" | 5.3
| align="right" | 15.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.46
|-
| 2003
| align="right" | 41,060
| align="right" | 839,623
| align="right" | 212,707
| align="right" | 626,916
| align="right" | 20.4
| align="right" | 5.2
| align="right" | 15.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.40
|-
| 2004
| align="right" | 41,650
| align="right" | 827,013
| align="right" | 213,860
| align="right" | 613,153
| align="right" | 19.9
| align="right" | 5.1
| align="right" | 14.8
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.33
|-
| 2005
| align="right" | 42,220
| align="right" | 813,688
| align="right" | 214,241
| align="right" | 599,447
| align="right" | 19.3
| align="right" | 5.1
| align="right" | 14.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.26
|-
| 2006
| align="right" | 42,770
| align="right" | 799,623
| align="right" | 214,631
| align="right" | 584,992
| align="right" | 18.7
| align="right" | 5.0
| align="right" | 13.7
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.20
|-
| 2007
| align="right" | 43,310
| align="right" | 787,414
| align="right" | 216,353
| align="right" | 571,061
| align="right" | 18.2
| align="right" | 5.0
| align="right" | 13.2
| align="right" style="color: blue"| 2.14
|-
| 2008
| align="right" | 43,820
| align="right" | 776,110
| align="right" | 216,895
| align="right" | 559,215
| align="right" | 17.7
| style="color: blue"| 4.9
| align="right" | 12.8
| align="right" | 2.08
|-
| 2009
| align="right" | 44,310
| align="right" | 765,905
| align="right" | 217,753
| align="right" | 548,152
| align="right" | 17.3
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 12.4
| align="right" | 2.03
|-
| 2010
| align="right" | 44,820
| align="right" | 758,072
| align="right" | 220,750
| align="right" | 537,322
| align="right" | 16.9
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 12.0
| align="right" | 1.99
|-
| 2011
| align="right" | 45,310
| align="right" | 752,881
| align="right" | 224,162
| align="right" | 528,719
| align="right" | 16.6
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 11.7
| align="right" | 1.96
|-
| 2012
| align="right" | 45,780
| align="right" | 748,734
| align="right" | 228,230
| align="right" | 520,504
| align="right" | 16.3
| align="right" | 5.0
| align="right" | 11.3
| align="right" | 1.93
|-
| 2013
| align="right" | 46,240
| align="right" | 744,381
| align="right" | 233,264
| align="right" | 511,117
| align="right" | 16.1
| align="right" | 5.0
| align="right" | 11.1
| align="right" | 1.90
|-
| 2014
| align="right" | 46,680
| align="right" | 739,615
| align="right" | 238,498
| align="right" | 501,117
| align="right" | 15.8
| align="right" | 5.1
| align="right" | 10.7
| align="right" | 1.88
|-
| 2015
| align="right" | 47,120
| align="right" | 734,664
| align="right" | 243,633
| align="right" | 491,031
| align="right" | 15.6
| align="right" | 5.2
| align="right" | 10.4
| align="right" | 1.86
|-
| 2016
| align="right" | 47,630
| align="right" | 730,565
| align="right" | 248,057
| align="right" | 482,508
| align="right" | 15.4
| align="right" | 5.2
| align="right" | 10.2
| align="right" | 1.84
|-
| 2017
| align="right" | 48,350
| align="right" | 726,008
| align="right" | 252,689
| align="right" | 473,319
| align="right" | 15.1
| align="right" | 5.2
| align="right" | 9.9
| align="right" | 1.82
|-
| 2018
| align="right" | 49,280
| align="right" | 727,649
| align="right" | 260,364
| align="right" | 467,285
| align="right" | 14.8
| align="right" | 5.3
| align="right" | 9.5
| align="right" | 1.79
|-
| 2019
| align="right" | 50,190
| align="right" | 733,940
| align="right" | 270,504
| align="right" | 463,436
| align="right" | 14.7
| align="right" | 5.4
| align="right" | 9.3
| align="right" | 1.76
|-
| 2020
| align="right" | 50,930
| align="right" | 733,491
| align="right" | 335,656
| align="right" | 397,835
| align="right" | 14.4
| align="right" | 6.6
| align="right" | 7.8
| align="right" | 1.74
|-
| 2021
| align="right" | 51,520
| align="right" | 730,233
| style="color: red" | 397,649
| style="color: red"| 332,584
| align="right" | 14.2
| align="right" | 7.7
| style="color: red"| 6.5
| align="right" | 1.72
|-
| 2022
| align="right" | 51,874
| align="right" | 723,264
| align="right" | 384,947
| align="right" | 338,317
| style="color: red"| 13.9
| align="right" | 7.4
| style="color: red"| 6.5
| align="right" style="color: red" | 1.69
|}

===Official births and deaths statistics===
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/poblacion-y-demografia/nacimientos-y-defunciones|title=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE)|publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=7 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425111153/http://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/poblacion-y-demografia/nacimientos-y-defunciones|archive-date=25 April 2016|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística (DANE) - Estimaciones del Cambio Demográfico 1950-2018|url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/estimaciones-del-cambio-demografico |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=5 July 2020}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web |title=2022 boletín estadístico anual de flujos migratorios |url=https://unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia.micolombiadigital.gov.co/sites/unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia/content/files/000371/18507_boletin-flujos-migratorios-2022.pdf |website=Migración: Ministro de Exteriores}}</ref>
<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-12-31 |title=Informe Ejecutivo Flujos migratorios de colombianos y extranjeros |url=https://unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia.micolombiadigital.gov.co/sites/unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia/content/files/001127/56344_flujos-migratorios-de-colombianos-y-extranjeros-2023--corte-diciembre.pdf |website=unidad-administrativa-especial-migracion-colombia.micolombiadigital.gov.co}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! rowspan=2|Year
! rowspan=2|Population 
! rowspan=2|Live 
births
! rowspan=2|Deaths
! rowspan=2|Natural 
increase
! colspan=2|Crude rate
! rowspan=2|Natural 
change

(per 1000)
! rowspan=2|Net 
migration
! rowspan=2|Crude 
migration
! rowspan=2|TFR
! colspan=2|Life expectancy
! rowspan=2|Mother's 
mean age 

at first birth
|-
! birth !! death
! male !! female
|-
| align="right" | 1998
| align="right" | 38,012,359
| align="right" | 720,984
| align="right" | 175,363
| align="right" | 545,621
| align="right" | 18.9
| style="color: blue"| 4.6
| align="right" | 14.3
|
|
| style="color: blue"| 2.17
| align="right" | 66.1
| align="right" | 74.2
| align="right" | 26.27
|-
| align="right" | 1999
| align="right" | 38,585,016
| align="right" | 746,194
| align="right" | 183,553
| align="right" | 562,641
| style="color: blue"| 19.3
| align="right" | 4.7
| style="color: blue"| 14.5
|
| 0.3
| style="color: blue"| 2.22
| align="right" | 66.6
| align="right" | 74.6
| align="right" | 26.25
|-
| align="right" | 2000
| align="right" | 39,140,080
| style="color: blue"| 752,834
| align="right" | 187,432
| style="color: blue"| 565,402
| align="right" | 19.2
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 14.4
|
| -0.3
| style="color: blue"| 2.22
| align="right" | 67.1
| align="right" | 75.0
| align="right" | 26.25
|-
| align="right" | 2001
| align="right" | 39,674,811
| align="right" | 724,319
| align="right" | 191,513
| align="right" | 532,806
| align="right" | 18.2
| align="right" | 4.8
| align="right" | 13.4
|
| 0
| style="color: blue"| 2.12
| align="right" | 67.6
| align="right" | 75.4
| align="right" | 26.26
|-
| align="right" | 2002
| align="right" | 40,190,679
| align="right" | 700,455
| align="right" | 192,262
| align="right" | 508,193
| align="right" | 17.4
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 12.6
|
| 0.2
| 2.04
| align="right" | 68.0
| align="right" | 75.7
| align="right" | 26.27
|-
| align="right" | 2003
| align="right" | 40,693,254
| align="right" | 710,702
| align="right" | 192,121
| align="right" | 518,581
| align="right" | 17.4
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 12.7
|
| -0.4
| style="color: black"| 2.05
| align="right" | 68.5
| align="right" | 76.1
| align="right" | 26.23
|-
| align="right" | 2004
| align="right" | 41,188,093
| align="right" | 723,099
| align="right" | 188,933
| align="right" | 534,166
| align="right" | 17.5
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 12.9
|
| -1.0
| align="right" | 2.07
| align="right" | 68.9
| align="right" | 76.5
| align="right" | 26.23
|-
| align="right" | 2005
| align="right" | 41,671,878
| align="right" | 719,968
| align="right" | 189,022
| align="right" | 530,946
| align="right" | 17.2
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 12.7
|
| -1.1
| align="right" | 2.05
| align="right" | 69.3
| align="right" | 76.8
| align="right" | 26.22
|-
| align="right" | 2006
| align="right" | 42,170,126
| align="right" | 714,450
| align="right" | 192,814
| align="right" | 521,636
| align="right" | 16.9
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 12.3
|
| -0.6
| align="right" | 2.02
| align="right" | 69.6
| align="right" | 77.0
| align="right" | 26.16
|-
| align="right" | 2007
| align="right" | 42,658,630
| align="right" | 709,253
| align="right" | 193,936
| align="right" | 515,317
| align="right" | 16.6
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 12.0
|
| -0.6
| align="right" | 1.98
| align="right" | 69.9
| align="right" | 77.3
| align="right" | 26.11
|-
| align="right" | 2008
| align="right" | 43,134,017
| align="right" | 715,453
| align="right" | 196,943
| align="right" | 518,510
| align="right" | 16.5
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 12.0
|
| -1.0
| align="right" | 1.97
| align="right" | 70.2
| align="right" | 77.5
| align="right" | 26.10
|-
| align="right" | 2009
| align="right" | 43,608,630
| align="right" | 699,775
| align="right" | 196,933
| align="right" | 502,842
| align="right" | 16.0
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 11.5
|
| -0.7
| align="right" | 1.91
| align="right" | 70.5
| align="right" | 77.7
| align="right" | 26.08
|-
| align="right" | 2010
| align="right" | 44,086,292
| align="right" | 654,627
| align="right" | 200,524
| align="right" | 454,103
| align="right" | 14.8
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 10.3
|
| 0.5
| align="right" | 1.78
| align="right" | 70.8
| align="right" | 77.9
| align="right" | 26.11
|-
| align="right" | 2011
| align="right" | 44,553,416
| align="right" | 665,499
| align="right" | 195,823
| align="right" | 469,676
| align="right" | 14.9
| align="right" | 4.3
| align="right" | 10.5
|
| -0.1
| align="right" | 1.79
| align="right" | 71.1
| align="right" | 78.1
| align="right" | 26.14
|-
| align="right" | 2012
| align="right" | 45,001,571
| align="right" | 676,835
| align="right" | 199,756
| align="right" | 477,079
| align="right" | 15.0
| align="right" | 4.4
| align="right" | 10.6
|
| -0.6
| align="right" | 1.81
| align="right" | 71.4
| align="right" | 78.3
| align="right" | 26.03
|-
| align="right" | 2013
| align="right" | 45,434,942
| align="right" | 658,835
| align="right" | 203,071
| align="right" | 455,764
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 4.4
| align="right" | 10.0
|
| -0.5
| align="right" | 1.75
| align="right" | 71.7
| align="right" | 78.5
| align="right" | 26.08
|-
| align="right" | 2014
| align="right" | 45,866,010
| align="right" | 669,137
| align="right" | 210,051
| align="right" | 459,086
| align="right" | 14.5
| align="right" | 4.5
| align="right" | 10.0
|
| -0.6
| align="right" | 1.77
| align="right" | 71.9
| align="right" | 78.7
| align="right" | 26.20
|-
| align="right" | 2015
| align="right" | 46,313,898
| align="right" | 660,999
| align="right" | 219,472
| align="right" | 441,527
| align="right" | 14.2
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 9.5
|
| 0.1
| align="right" | 1.74
| align="right" | 72.2
| align="right" | 78.9
| align="right" | 26.35
|-
| align="right" | 2016
| align="right" | 46,830,116
| align="right" | 647,521
| align="right" | 223,078
| align="right" | 424,443
| align="right" | 13.8
| align="right" | 4.7
| align="right" | 9.0
|
| 2.0
| align="right" | 1.69
| align="right" | 72.5
| align="right" | 79.1
| align="right" | 26.35
|-
| align="right" | 2017
| align="right" | 47,419,200
| align="right" | 656,704
| align="right" | 227,624
| align="right" | 429,080
| align="right" | 13.8
| align="right" | 4.8
| align="right" | 9.0
|
| 3.4
| align="right" | 1.69
| align="right" | 72.7
| align="right" | 79.3
| align="right" | 26.41
|-
| align="right" | 2018
| align="right" | 48,258,494
| align="right" | 649,115
| align="right" | 236,932
| align="right" | 412,183
| align="right" | 13.5
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 8.5
|
| 9.0
| align="right" | 1.65
| align="right" | 73.3
| align="right" | 79.8
| align="right" | 26.48
|-
| align="right" | 2019
| align="right" | 49,395,678
| align="right" | 642,660
| align="right" | 244,355
| align="right" | 398,305
| align="right" | 13.0
| align="right" | 4.9
| align="right" | 8.0
| align="right" | -249,264
| 15.3
| align="right" | 1.59
| align="right" | 73.5
| align="right" | 79.9
| align="right" | 26.49
|-
| align="right" | 2020
| align="right" | 50,372,424
| align="right" | 629,402
| align="right" | 300,853
| align="right" | 328,549
| align="right" | 12.5
| align="right" | 5.9
| align="right" | 6.5
| align="right" | -22,703
| 13.1
| align="right" | 1.53
| align="right" | 72.1
| align="right" | 78.9
| align="right" | 26.54
|-
| align="right" | 2021
| align="right" | 51,049,498
| align="right" | 616,914
| style="color: red"| 363,089
| style="color: black"| 253,825
| 12.1
| style="color: red"| 7.1
| style="color: black"|  4.9
| align="right" | -213,799
| 8.4
| align="right" | 1.50
| align="right" | 69.7
| align="right" | 76.9
| align="right" | 26.55
|-
| 2022
| 51,682,692
| style="color: black"| 573,625
| 287,251
| 286,374
| style="color: black"| 11.1
|  5.6
| 5.5
| style="color: red"| -390,802
| 6.8
| style="color: black"| 1.38
|  72.1
|  78.5
|  26.76
|-
|  2023
| style="color: blue" | 52,215,503
| style="color: red"| 513,448
|  266,771
| style="color: red"| 246,677
| style="color: red"| 9.8
|  5.1
| style="color: red" | 4.7
| align="right" | -350,086
| 5.5
| style="color: red"| 1.22
| 74.5
| 80.1
| 26.92
|}

===Current vital statistics===
<ref>{{cite web|title=Nacimientos y Defunciones|url=http://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/nacimientos-y-defunciones|publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE|access-date=20 September 2024}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable"  style="text-align:center;"
|+
|-
! Period
! Live births
! Deaths
! Natural increase
|-
| '''January-July 2023'''
| 300,874
| 157,547
| +143,327
|-
| '''January-July 2024'''
| 255,055
| 160,523
| +94,532
|-
| '''Difference'''
| {{decrease}} -45,819 (-15.2%)
| {{increasenegative}} +2,976 (+1.9%)
| {{decrease}} -48,795
|}

== Ethnicity ==
{{main|Race and ethnicity in Colombia}}
{{bar box
|title=Ethnic groups in Colombia<ref>{{cite web |title=Ethnic groups of Colombia. |url=https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/grupos-etnicos/informacion-tecnica |website=2018 National Population and Housing Census |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |access-date=14 March 2020 |archive-date=8 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408132304/https://www.dane.gov.co/index.php/estadisticas-por-tema/demografia-y-poblacion/grupos-etnicos/informacion-tecnica |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|titlebar=#ddd
|left1=Ethnic group
|right1=percent
|float=left
|bars=
{{bar percent|Unclassified (Mostly [[White Colombians|White]] and [[Mestizo Colombians|Mestizo]]) |Blue|87.58}}
{{bar percent|[[Afro-Colombians|Black]] (includes [[Mulatto]], [[Raizal]], and [[Palenquero]])|Orange|6.76}}
{{bar percent|[[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|Amerindian]]|Yellow|4.31}}
{{bar percent|[[Romani people|Romani]]|Red|0.006}}
}}

Colombia is ethnically diverse, its original people descending from the original [[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|native]] inhabitants, [[Spanish Colombian|Spanish]] and [[European Colombian|European]] colonists, [[African Colombian|Africans]] originally brought to the country as slaves, and 20th-century [[European diaspora|immigrants from Europe]] and the [[Arab Colombian|Middle East]], all contributing to a diverse cultural heritage.<ref name="Colombia is ethnically diverse">{{cite web |url=http://www.pedagogica.edu.co/storage/ps/articulos/pedysab15_09arti.pdf |title=The ethnic and cultural diversity of Colombia |website=pedagogica.edu.co |language=es |access-date=26 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327221138/http://www.pedagogica.edu.co/storage/ps/articulos/pedysab15_09arti.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> 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.<ref>Bushnell & Hudson, pp. 87–88.</ref>

The 2005 census (outdated) reported that the "non-ethnic population", consisting of [[White Colombian|whites]] and [[Mestizo Colombian|mestizos]] (those of majority Indigenous American ancestry), constituted 86% of the national population. 10.6% is of [[Afro-Colombian|black]] ancestry. [[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|Indigenous Colombians]] comprise 3.4% of the population. Less than 0.01% of the population is [[Romani people|Roma]]. An extraofficial estimate considers that the 49% of the Colombian population is [[Mestizo Colombian|Mestizo]] or of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, and that approximately 19-37% is [[White Colombian|White]], mainly of [[Spanish Colombian|Spanish]] lineage, but there is also a large population of [[Arab Colombian|Middle East]] descent; among the upper class there is a considerable input of [[Italian Colombian|Italian]] ancestry.<ref name="The Society and Its Environment">Bushnell, David & Rex A. Hudson (2010) "[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/pdf/CS_Colombia.pdf The Society and Its Environment]"; ''Colombia: a country study'': pp.&nbsp;87, 92. Washington D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress.</ref>

Many of the [[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|Indigenous peoples]] experienced a reduction in population during the Spanish rule<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.colombia.com/colombiainfo/nuestrahistoria/esclavista.asp |website=colombia.com |title=Society and slavery|language=es|access-date=9 September 2013}}</ref> 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 {{convert|30,571,640|ha|km2}} (27% of the country's total) and are inhabited by more than 800,000 people.<ref name="Resguardos Indígenas">{{cite web|url=https://www.siac.gov.co/Estado_Ecosistemas_Bosque/Resguardos_indigenas1.aspx |title=Resguardos indígenas – Concentra el 43% de los bosques naturales |website=siac.gov.co |access-date=27 March 2014 |language=es |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328011617/https://www.siac.gov.co/Estado_Ecosistemas_Bosque/Resguardos_indigenas1.aspx |archive-date=28 March 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> Some of the largest indigenous groups are the [[Wayuu]],<ref name="wayuu">{{cite web|url=http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/antropologia/article/view/2006/1973|title=Hostein, N. (2010). El pueblo wayuu de la Guajira colombo-venezolana: un panorama de su cultura. Cuadernos de Antropología, 20(1)|website=Revistas.ucr.ac.cr|access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> the [[Paez people|Paez]], the [[Pastos people|Pastos]], the [[Emberá people|Emberá]] and the [[Zenú]].<ref name="pueblos indígenas">{{cite web|url=https://www.dnp.gov.co/programas/desarrollo-territorial/Paginas/pueblos-indigenas.aspx |title=Los pueblos indígenas de Colombia en el umbral del nuevo milenio. Población, cultura y territorio: bases para el fortalecimiento social y económico de los pueblos indígenas|website=dnp.gov.co |access-date=27 March 2014}}</ref> The departments of [[Department of La Guajira|La Guajira]], [[Cauca Department|Cauca]], [[Nariño Department|Nariño]], [[Córdoba Department|Córdoba]] and [[Sucre Department|Sucre]] have the largest indigenous populations.<ref name="grupos étnicos 2005">{{cite web|title=visibilización estadística de los grupos étnicos |url=http://www.dane.gov.co/files/censo2005/etnia/sys/visibilidad_estadistica_etnicos.pdf|work=Censo General 2005|publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE)|access-date=15 June 2013}}</ref>

The [[National Indigenous Organization of Colombia|Organización Nacional Indígena de Colombia]] (ONIC), founded at the first National Indigenous Congress in 1982, is an organization representing the indigenous peoples of Colombia. In 1991, Colombia signed and ratified the current international law concerning indigenous peoples, [[Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989]].<ref name="Ratifications - ilo.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.ilo.org/dyn/normlex/en/f?p=1000:11200:0::NO:11200:P11200_COUNTRY_ID:102595 |title=Ratifications for Colombia |publisher=International Labour Organization |access-date=26 March 2014}}</ref>

[[Ethnic groups of Africa|Black Africans]] were brought as [[Slavery|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 [[Chocó Department|department of Chocó]], running along the northern portion of Colombia's Pacific coast, is over 70% black.<ref name="Grupos Étnicos dane">{{cite web |url=http://www.dane.gov.co/censo/files/presentaciones/grupos_etnicos.pdf |title=Ethnic groups in Colombia |publisher=Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística - DANE |language=es |access-date=26 March 2014 |archive-date=3 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233546/http://www.dane.gov.co/censo/files/presentaciones/grupos_etnicos.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[British people|Britons]] and [[Jamaican people|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]].<ref name="Extranjeros en Colombia">{{cite web |url=http://www.rodriguezuribe.co/histories/Inmigrantes%20a%20Colombia%20-%20Luis%20Alvaro%20Gallo.pdf |title=Inmigrantes a Colombia: Personajes extranjeros llegados a Colombia |author=Luis Álvaro Gallo Martínez |website=rodriguezuribe.co |year=2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924091807/http://www.rodriguezuribe.co/histories/Inmigrantes%20a%20Colombia%20-%20Luis%20Alvaro%20Gallo.pdf |archive-date=24 September 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Migraciones Internacionales">{{cite web |url=http://rcientificas.uninorte.edu.co/index.php/investigacion/article/view/2116/2827 |title=Las migraciones internacionales en Colombia. Investigación & Desarrollo, 20(1) 142–167 |last1=Wabgou |first1=M. |last2=Vargas |first2=D. |last3=Carabalí |first3=J. A. |publisher=Universidad del Norte |year=2012}}</ref>

Many immigrant communities have settled on the Caribbean coast, in particular recent immigrants from the [[Ethnic groups in West Asia|Middle East]]. Barranquilla (the largest city of the Colombian Caribbean) and other Caribbean cities have the largest populations of [[Phoenicia|Phoenician]] ([[Lebanese Colombian|Lebanese]]), [[Palestinian people|Palestinian]] and other [[Arab diaspora in Colombia|Middle Easterners]].<ref>Vargas Arana, Pilar, and Luz Marina Suaza Vargas. "Los árabes en Colombia: Del rechazo a la integración". (2007).</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nodo50.org/csca/agenda08/misc/arti48.html |title=The Arab immigration to Colombia |website=nodo50.org |language=es|access-date=30 January 2014}}</ref> There are also important communities of [[Romani people|Romanis]] and [[History of the Jews in Colombia|Jews]].<ref name="Colombia is ethnically diverse"/> There is a major migration trend of [[Venezuelan people|Venezuelans]], due to the [[Crisis in Bolivarian Venezuela|political crisis and economic collapse in Venezuela]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/c80f3a_d2e0a0b4821e4238ae021904026a4459.pdf |title=Características de los migrantes de Venezuela a Colombia |date=2017-08-14 |website=Observatorio Laboral |language=es}}</ref>

{{bar box
|title=Ethnic groups in Colombia (Estimation)
|titlebar=#ddd
|left1=Ethnic group
|right1=Population
|bars=
{{bar percent|[[Mestizo Colombians|Mestizo]]|Blue|50.3}}
{{bar percent|[[White Colombians|White]]|Green|26.4}}
{{bar percent|[[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|Indigenous]]|Red|9.5}}
{{bar percent|[[Afro Colombians|Black]]|Yellow|9.0}}
{{bar percent|[[Mulatto]]|Orange|4.4}}
{{bar percent|[[Asian Latin Americans|Asian]]|Purple|0.4}}
}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Raza/Etnia a la que pertenece |url=https://www.latinobarometro.org/latOnline.jsp |access-date=13 February 2024 |work=Latinobarómetro 2023 Colombia}}</ref>

== Languages ==
{{Main|Languages of Colombia}}
{{See also|Colombian Spanish}}
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 [[Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina|San Andrés]]; and also San Andrés is the only place of Colombia where are three official languages: Spanish, English and a creole language.<ref name="lenguas indígenas">{{cite web|url= http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/antropologia/lengua/clas2.htm|title= Languages of Colombia|publisher= banrepcultural.org|language= es|access-date= 9 October 2013|archive-date= 29 September 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130929200029/http://www.banrepcultural.org/blaavirtual/antropologia/lengua/clas2.htm|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref name="Languages of Colombia">{{cite web|url= http://www.ambafrance-co.org/Jon-Landaburu-Especialista-de-las|title= Jon Landaburu, Especialista de las lenguas de Colombia|publisher= ambafrance-co.org|language= es|access-date= 9 October 2013|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131216191247/http://www.ambafrance-co.org/Jon-Landaburu-Especialista-de-las|archive-date= 16 December 2013}}</ref><ref name="MapofthelanguagesofColombia">{{cite web|url= http://www.lenguasdecolombia.gov.co/mapalenguas/inicio.swf|title= Map of the languages of Colombia|publisher= lenguasdecolombia.gov.co|language= es|access-date= 9 October 2013|archive-date= 10 October 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171010222341/http://www.lenguasdecolombia.gov.co/mapalenguas/inicio.swf|url-status= dead}}</ref>

==Religion==
{{Main|Religion in Colombia}}
{{Pie chart
|thumb = right
|caption = Religion in Colombia (2014) – [[Pew Research Center]]<ref name="Religion in Latin America"/>
|label1 = [[Catholicism]]
|value1 = 79
|color1 = DarkOrchid
|label2 = [[Protestantism]]
|value2 = 13
|color2 = DodgerBlue
|label3 = Unaffiliated
|value3 = 6
|color3 = Honeydew
|label4 = Other
|value4 = 2
|color4 = Chartreuse
}}
{{Pie chart
|thumb = left
|caption = Religion in Colombia – Other studies <ref name="Religion"/><ref name="Religion2"/>
|label1 = [[Catholicism]]
|value1 = 70.9
|color1 = DarkOrchid
|label2 = [[Protestantism]]
|value2 = 16.7
|color2 = DodgerBlue
|label3 = [[Atheist]] or [[agnostic]]
|value3 = 4.7
|color3 = Honeydew
|label4 = Claim to believe in God but do not follow a specific religion
|value4 = 3.5
|color4 = Chartreuse
|label5 = [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] and [[Adventism]] 
|value5 = 1.8
|color5 = Orange
|label6 = Other
|value6 = 0.2
|color6 = Gray
|label7 = The remaining people either did not respond or replied that they did not know.
|value7 = 2.2
|color7 = MediumSeaGreen
}}
The [[National Administrative Department of Statistics]] (DANE) does not collect religious statistics, and accurate reports are difficult to obtain. However, based on various studies and a survey, about 90% of the population adheres to [[Christianity]], the majority of which (70.9%) are [[Roman Catholic]], while a significant minority (16.7%) adhere to [[Protestantism]] (primarily [[Evangelicalism]]). Some 4.7% of the population is [[atheist]] or [[agnostic]], while 3.5% claim to believe in God but do not follow a specific religion. 1.8% of Colombians adhere to [[Jehovah's Witnesses]] and [[Adventism]] and less than 1% adhere to other religions, such as [[Islam]], [[Judaism]], [[Buddhism]], [[Mormonism]], [[Hinduism]], [[Hare Krishna movement]], [[Rastafari movement]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], and spiritual studies. The remaining people either did not respond or replied that they did not know. In addition to the above statistics, 35.9% of Colombians reported that they did not practice their faith actively.<ref name="Religion in Latin America">{{cite web |title=Religion in Latin America, Widespread Change in a Historically Catholic Region |url=http://www.pewforum.org/2014/11/13/religion-in-latin-america/# |website=pewforum.org |publisher=Pew Research Center |date=13 November 2014}}</ref><ref name="Religion">{{cite book |url=http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/10780/1/Del%20monopolio%20cat%C3%B3lico%20a%20la%20explosi%C3%B3n%20pentecostal.pdf |title=Del monopolio católico a la explosión pentecostal' |author1=Beltrán Cely |author2=William Mauricio |year=2013 |publisher=Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Centro de Estudios Sociales (CES), Maestría en Sociología |language=es |isbn=978-958-761-465-7 |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327173229/http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/10780/1/Del%20monopolio%20cat%C3%B3lico%20a%20la%20explosi%C3%B3n%20pentecostal.pdf |archive-date=27 March 2016 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Religion2">{{cite web |url=http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/8486/1/williammauriciobeltran.2011.pdf |title=Descripción cuantitativa de la pluralización religiosa en Colombia |author1=Beltrán Cely |author2=William Mauricio |author-link=William Mauricio Beltrán Cely |publisher=Universitas humanística 73 (2012): 201–238. – bdigital.unal.edu.co |access-date=9 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140329185722/http://www.bdigital.unal.edu.co/8486/1/williammauriciobeltran.2011.pdf |archive-date=29 March 2014 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }}</ref> 1,519,562 people in Colombia, or around 3% of the population reported following an [[animism|indigenous religion]].

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.<ref>Colombian Constitution of 1991 (Title II – Concerning rights, guarantees, and duties – Chapter I – Concerning fundamental rights – Article 19)</ref>

== Migration ==
[[File:Proportion of venezuelans in every department of colombia.png|thumb|269x269px|Venezuelans as a proportion of total population in departments of Colombia in january 2024,Own elaboration based on data from Migración Colombia]]

{{Main|Colombian diaspora}}
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|date=July 2010}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="text-align:right"
|+ Foreign-born population 2018 census
! rowspan="2" | Country of birth
! colspan="2" |2018<ref>{{cite web |title=Cruce de variables - Cruce de combinados - País de nacimiento |url=http://systema59.dane.gov.co/bincol/RpWebEngine.exe/Portal?BASE=CNPVBASE4V2&lang=esp |website=REDATAM - DANE |access-date=31 December 2022}}</ref>
|-
! Number
! %
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || 2,837,900 
| {{percentage bar|86.96}}
|-
| {{flag|USA}} || 150,124
| {{percentage bar|2.09}}
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || 58,111
| {{percentage bar|1.88}}
|-
| {{flag|Spain}} || 44,954
| {{percentage bar|1.55}}
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || 5,481
| {{percentage bar|0.57}}
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || 5,220
| {{percentage bar|0.54}}
|-
| {{flag|Mexico}} || 5,088
| {{percentage bar|0.53}}
|-
| {{flag|Brazil}} || 4,218
| {{percentage bar|0.44}}
|-
| {{flag|Chile}} || 4,182
| {{percentage bar|0.43}}
|-
| {{flag|Italy}} || 3,104
| {{percentage bar|0.32}}
|-
| {{flag|France}} || 2,954
| {{percentage bar|0.31}}
|-
| {{flag|Panama}} || 2,909
| {{percentage bar|0.30}}
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || 2,383
| {{percentage bar|0.25}}
|-
| {{flag|Germany}} || 2,133
| {{percentage bar|0.22}}
|-
| {{flag|Costa Rica}} || 1,675
| {{percentage bar|0.17}}
|-
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} || 1,591
| {{percentage bar|0.17}}
|-
| {{flag|Canada}} || 1,570
| {{percentage bar|0.16}}
|}

{| class="wikitable sortable" border="1" style="text-align:right"
|+ Colombian population living abroad
! rowspan="2" | Country of residency
! colspan="2" |2020<ref>{{cite web |title=Estudio de Caracterización de los Usuarios que atiende cada uno de los Consulados de Colombia en el Exterior |url=https://www.cancilleria.gov.co/sites/default/files/FOTOS2020/estudio_de_caracterizacion_de_los_usuarios_que_atiende_cada_uno_de_los_consulados_de_colombia_en_el_exterior._version_boton_de_transparencia_27nov20.pdf |website=Cancillería de Colombia |access-date=4 January 2023}}</ref>
|-
! Number
! %
|-
| {{flag|USA}}  || 1,557,000 
| {{percentage bar|40.91}}
|-
| {{flag|Venezuela}} || 1,000,000
| {{percentage bar|28.31}}
|-
| {{flag|Spain}} || 481,000
| {{percentage bar|8.75}}
|-
| {{flag|Ecuador}} || 279,000
| {{percentage bar|5.07}}
|-
| {{flag|Mexico}} || 198,500
| {{percentage bar|3.61}}
|-
| {{flag|Chile}} || 135,000
| {{percentage bar|2.45}}
|-
| {{flag|Canada}} || 86,000
| {{percentage bar|1.56}}
|-
| {{flag|Panama}} || 58,350
| {{percentage bar|1.07}}
|-
| {{flag|Argentina}} || 50,000
| {{percentage bar|0.91}}
|-
| {{flag|United Kingdom}} || 48,000
| {{percentage bar|0.87}}
|-
| {{flag|Brazil}} || 43,500
| {{percentage bar|0.79}}
|-
| {{flag|Peru}} || 40,500
| {{percentage bar|0.73}}
|-
| {{flag|Costa Rica}} || 40,000
| {{percentage bar|0.72}}
|-
| {{flag|France}} || 40,000
| {{percentage bar|0.72}}
|-
| {{flag|Germany}} || 24,000
| {{percentage bar|0.44}}
|-
| {{flag|Australia}} || 22,000
| {{percentage bar|0.40}}
|-
| {{flag|Italy}} || 20,000
| {{percentage bar|0.36}}
|-
| {{flag|Netherlands}} || 18,000
| {{percentage bar|0.33}}
|-
| {{flag|Sweden}} || 15,000
| {{percentage bar|0.27}}
|-
| {{flag|Bolivia}} || 13,000
| {{percentage bar|0.24}}
|-
| {{flag|Switzerland}} || 12,000
| {{percentage bar|0.22}}
|-
| {{flag|Aruba}} || 8,000
| {{percentage bar|0.15}}
|-
| {{flag|Dominican Republic}} || 8,000
| {{percentage bar|0.15}}
|-
| {{flag|Curacao}} || 4,500
| {{percentage bar|0.08}}
|-
| {{flag|China}} || 4,000
| {{percentage bar|0.07}}
|-
| {{flag|Norway}} || 4,000
| {{percentage bar|0.07}}
|-
| {{flag|Belgium}} || 3,500
| {{percentage bar|0.06}}
|-
| {{flag|Israel}} || 3,500
| {{percentage bar|0.06}}
|-
| {{flag|Japan}} || 3,000
| {{percentage bar|0.05}}
|-
| {{flag|UAE}} || 2,500
| {{percentage bar|0.04}}
|-
| {{flag|New Zealand}} || 2,500
| {{percentage bar|0.04}}
|-
| {{flag|Portugal}} || 2,500
| {{percentage bar|0.04}}
|-
| {{flag|Austria}} || 2,000
| {{percentage bar|0.03}}
|-
| {{flag|Cuba}} || 2,000
| {{percentage bar|0.03}}
|-
| {{flag|Russia}} || 2,000
| {{percentage bar|0.03}}
|-
| {{flag|Uruguay}} || 2,000
| {{percentage bar|0.03}}
|-
| {{flag|Guatemala}} || 1,500
| {{percentage bar|0.02}}
|-
| {{flag|Paraguay}} || 1,500
| {{percentage bar|0.02}}
|-
| {{flag|Honduras}} || 1,300
| {{percentage bar|0.02}}
|-
| {{flag|Nicaragua}} || 1,200
| {{percentage bar|0.02}}
|-
| {{flag|Lebanon}} || 1,000
| {{percentage bar|0.01}}
|-
| {{flag|Turkey}} || 1,000
| {{percentage bar|0.01}}
|}

== CIA World Factbook demographic statistics ==
[[File:Life expectancy development in Colombia.svg|thumb|[[Life expectancy]] in Colombia since 1900]]
[[File:Life expectancy by WBG -Colombia -diff.png|thumb|Life expectancy in Colombia since 1960 by gender]]
The following demographic statistics are from the [[CIA World Factbook]], unless otherwise indicated.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/colombia/|title=The World Factbook|publisher=CIA |access-date=7 July 2016}}</ref>

=== Population ===
48,637,910 (May 2016 est.)

=== Median age ===
total: 32.4 years (2023 est.). Country comparison to the world: [[List of countries by median age|113th]]

male: 30.2 years (2020 est.)

female: 32.2 years (2020 est.)

=== Sex ratio ===
At birth: 1.03 male(s)/female

Under 15 years: 1.02 male(s)/female

15–64 years: 0.95 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 0.75 male(s)/female

total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2009 est.)

=== HIV/AIDS – adult prevalence rate ===
0.7% (2007 est.)

=== HIV/AIDS – people living with HIV/AIDS ===
170,000 (2007 est.)

=== HIV/AIDS – deaths ===
9,800 (2007 est.)

=== Nationality ===
noun: Colombia
adjective: Colombian(s)

=== Literacy ===

definition: age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 99.4%

male: 99.1% (2018 census)

female: 99.7% (2018 census)

== Notes ==
{{portal|Colombia}}
{{reflist|group=note}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}
* {{CIA World Factbook|year=2006}}

== External links ==
* {{in lang|es}} [http://www.dane.gov.co/ Colombian Department of Statistics]
* {{in lang|es}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20080529034403/http://www.colombiestad.gov.co/docs/books/LB_896_1951.pdf 1951 Census]

{{Colombian people}}
{{South_America_in_topic|Demographics of}}
{{Colombia topics|state=uncollapsed}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Demographics of Colombia}}
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[[Category:Society of Colombia]]