Colombia
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Key Indicators
| Income Group | Upper-middle income |
| Regional Group | The Americas |
| Population (Total) | 50,339,443 |
| Population as a share world total | 0.66% |
| GDP (current US$, millions) | 324,000 |
| GDP as a share of world total | 0.37% |
| GDP per capita, PPP (current international $) | 15,643 |
Performance Overview
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COL
Country
Colombia
Score
46.81
Rank
72
Technology
36.44
People
45.78
Governance
54.76
Impact
50.27
| 1. Mobile tariffs | 49.55 | 91 |
| 2. Handset prices | 49.24 | 56 |
| 3. Households with internet acccess | 49.82 | 82 |
| 4. 4G mobile network coverage (% of population) | 98.00 | 38 |
| 5. Fixed-broadband subscriptions, 10Mbit/s or above (% of total subscriptions) | 53.44 | 69 |
| 6. International internet bandwidth, kb/s per Internet user | 75.08 | 17 |
| 7. Proportion of primary schools with access to Internet for pedagogical purpose | 43.05 | 45 |
| 1. GitHub commits | 4.40 | 59 |
| 2. Wikipedia edits | 43.36 | 68 |
| 3. Internet domain registrations* | - | - |
| 4. Mobile apps development | 54.02 | 86 |
| 1. Availability of latest technologies | 46.99 | 67 |
| 2. Company investment in emerging technology | 38.85 | 67 |
| 3. ICT PCT patent applications per million population | 3.02 | 59 |
| 4. Total computer software spending (% of GDP) | 14.34 | 75 |
| 5. Robot density | 0.19 | 62 |
| 1. Medium and high-tech industry | 28.92 | 66 |
| 2. High-tech exports | 13.77 | 63 |
| 3. PCT patent applications | 0.79 | 56 |
| 4. Labour productivity per employee | 20.73 | 76 |
| 5. Prevalence of gig economy | 37.01 | 80 |
| 1. Happiness | 71.89 | 35 |
| 2. Freedom to make life choices | 75.91 | 66 |
| 3. Income inequality | 32.47 | 112 |
| 4. Healthy life expectancy at birth | 69.19 | 52 |
| 1. SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being | 78.69 | 39 |
| 2. SDG 4: Quality Education | 24.72 | 69 |
| 3. SDG 5: Gender Equality | 80.75 | 36 |
| 4. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy | 92.05 | 10 |
| 5. SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities | 64.80 | 67 |
| 1. Internet users | 61.45 | 78 |
| 2. Active mobile-broadband subscriptions | 19.65 | 98 |
| 3. Use of virtual social networks | 69.07 | 27 |
| 5. Tertiary enrolment | 40.14 | 51 |
| 5. Adult literacy rate | 93.71 | 48 |
| 6. ICT skills | 39.91 | 89 |
| 1. Firms with website | 67.70 | 42 |
| 2. Ease of doing business | 70.45 | 63 |
| 3. Professionals | 4.49 | 118 |
| 4. Technicians and associate professionals | 37.56 | 56 |
| 5. Business use of digital tools | 60.64 | 64 |
| 6. R&D expenditure by businesses | 2.71 | 63 |
| 1. Government online services | 75.76 | 48 |
| 2. Publication and use of open data | 51.65 | 24 |
| 3. Government promotion of investment in emerging technologies | 38.11 | 64 |
| 4. R&D expenditure by governments and higher education | 5.56 | 100 |
| 1. Secure Internet servers | 53.15 | 64 |
| 2. Cybersecurity | 60.35 | 75 |
| 3. Online access to financial account | 17.15 | 86 |
| 4. Internet shopping | 10.78 | 73 |
| 1. Regulatory quality | 58.63 | 54 |
| 2. ICT regulatory environment | 78.77 | 84 |
| 3. Legal framework's adaptability to emerging technologies | 39.33 | 69 |
| 4. E-commerce legislation | 100.00 | 1 |
| 5. Privacy protection by law content | 56.70 | 52 |
| 1. E-Participation | 86.42 | 27 |
| 2. Socioeconomic gap in use of digital payments | 55.86 | 84 |
| 3. Availability of local online content | 53.85 | 78 |
| 4. Gender gap in internet use | 69.45 | 8 |
| 5. Rural gap in use of digital payments | 45.66 | 108 |