Colombia's life expectancy rose from 69.8 yrs in 1995 to 77.9 yrs in 2024.
Colombia · Health
Longevity, mortality, health system capacity and risk factors.
23 indicators · 23 with data
Colombia's healthy life expectancy at birth rose from 63.3 yrs in 2000 to 65.0 yrs in 2021.
Colombia's infant mortality fell from 25.3 ‰ in 1995 to 10.5 ‰ in 2024.
Colombia's under-5 mortality rate fell from 29.9 ‰ in 1995 to 11.5 ‰ in 2024.
Colombia's maternal mortality ratio fell from 93.0 /100k in 1994 to 59.0 /100k in 2023.
Colombia's ncd mortality fell from 16.6 % in 2000 to 10.3 % in 2021.
Colombia's suicide mortality rate fell from 5.1 /100k in 2000 to 5.0 /100k in 2021.
Colombia's mortality caused by road traffic injury fell from 20.0 /100k in 2000 to 15.4 /100k in 2019.
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- Health spendingdown −0.0 pts17th of 22
- Current health expenditure per capita (current US$)up +12.8 %22nd of 22
- Out-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure)up +0.1 pts12th of 22
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- Physiciansup +2.8 %23rd of 63
- Nurses and midwivesup +5.7 %62nd of 79
- Hospital bedsdown −2.6 %1st of 1
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- Immunization, measles (% of children ages 12–23 months)unchanged +0.0 pts74th of 192
- Immunization, DPT (% of children ages 12–23 months)down −1.0 pts110th of 192
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- Prevalence of HIV (ages 15–49)unchanged +0.0 pts89th of 148
- Incidence of tuberculosisup +6.5 %115th of 208
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- Safe drinking waterup +0.2 pts83rd of 148
- Safe sanitationup +0.1 pts127th of 141