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[[Image:Colombia-demography.png|thumb|300px|right|Demographics of Colombia, Data of [[FAO]], year 2005 ; Number of inhabitants in thousands.]]

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[[Colombia]] is the third-most populous country in [[Latin America]], after [[Brazil]] and [[Mexico]].

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It also has the third largest Black/African-descent population in the western hemisphere after Brazil and the US.

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== Urbanization ==

Movement from rural to urban areas was very heavy in the middle of the 20th century, but has since tapered off.

The urban population increased from 31% of the total population in [1938]], to 57% in [[1951]] and about 70% by [[1990]]. Currently the figure is about 77%.

Thirty cities have a population of 100,000 or more.

The nine eastern lowlands departments, constituting about 54% of Colombia's area, have less than 3% of the population and a density of less than one person per square kilometer (two persons per sq. mi.).

== Ethnic diversity ==

The country has a diverse population that reflects its colourful history and the peoples that have populated here from ancient times to the present. The historic amalgam of three main groups are the basics of Colombia's current demographics: indigenous [[Amerindian]]s, [[European]] immigrants, and [[African]] slaves.

Many of the indigenous peoples were absorbed into the [[mestizo]] population, but the remaining 700,000 currently represent over 85 distinct cultures. Today, less than 1% of the population can be identified as fully indigenous on the basis of language and customs.

The European immigrants were primarily [[Spain|Spanish]] colonists, but many other Europeans (Italian, German, French, Swiss and in smaller numbers Belgian, Lithuanian, Dutch, English and Croatian communities) immigrated during the Second World War and the Cold War.

The Africans were brought as slaves, mostly to the coastal lowlands, beginning early in the 16th century, and continuing into the 19th century. After abolition, a national ideology of [[mestizaje]] encouraged the mixing of the [[Indigenous peoples in Colombia|indigenous]] and [[Afro-Latin_American#Colombia|Afro-Colombian]] communities into a single mestizo ethnic identity [http://isla.igc.org/SpecialRpts/SR2murillo.html|].

Other smaller immigrant populations include Asians and Middle Easterners, particularly Arabs, Chinese, and Japanese.

== Migration ==

As of 2006, Colombia has about 3 million [[internally displaced persons]], the highest number of any country in the western hemisphere, and second worldwide, after Sudan.

==Demographic data from the CIA World Factbook==

===Population===

43,593,035 (July 2006 est.)

===Age structure===

0-14 years: 30.3% (male 6,683,079/female 6,528,563)

15-64 years: 64.5% (male 13,689,384/female 14,416,439)

65 years and over: 5.2% (male 996,022/female 1,279,548) (2006 est.)

===Median age===

total: 26.3 years

male: 25.4 years

female: 27.2 years (2006 est.)

===Population growth rate===

1.46% (2006 est.)

===Birth rate===

20.48 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)

===Death rate===

5.58 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)

===Net migration rate===

-0.3 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 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: 0.78 male(s)/female

total population: 0.96 male(s)/female (2006 est.)

===Infant mortality rate===

total: 20.35 deaths/1,000 live births

male: 24.25 deaths/1,000 live births

female: 16.31 deaths/1,000 live births (2006 est.)

===Life expectancy at birth===

total population: 71.99 years

male: 68.15 years

female: 75.96 years (2006 est.)

===Total fertility rate===

2.54 children born/woman (2006 est.)

===HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate===

0.7% (2003 est.)

===HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS===

190,000 (2003 est.)

===HIV/AIDS - deaths===

3,600 (2003 est.)

===Nationality===

noun: Colombian(s)

adjective: Colombian

===Ethnic groups===

mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%

===Religions===

Roman Catholic 90%, other 10%

===Languages===

Spanish

===Literacy===

definition: age 15 and over can read and write

total population: 92.5%

male: 92.4%

female: 92.6% (2003 est.)

==References==

*{{CIA WFB 2006}}

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