Country comparison: Colombia / Venezuela

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Colombia and Venezuela. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Colombia	Venezuela
Region:	South America	South America
Area:	1,141,749 km²	912,050 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1810 AD	1811 AD
Capital:	Bogota	Caracas

Population

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	Colombia	Venezuela
Population:	51,517,000	28,200,000
Inhabitants/km²:	45.1	30.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 67 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 76 years
Average age:	Ø 31.2 years	Ø 30.0 years
Birth rate:	14.44 ‰	16.21 ‰
Death rate:	6.61 ‰	7.58 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.58 ‰	13.88 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Colombia	Venezuela
Political stability:	46	25
Civil rights:	44	1
Health:	57	44
Climate:	54	64
Cost of Living:	46	28
Popularity:	28	46

Economy

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	Colombia	Venezuela
Currency:	Colombian peso (1 COP = 100 Centavos)	bolivar digital (1 VED =100 Céntimos)
Unemployment rate:	14.3 %	6.4 %
Inflation rate:	3.50 %	2,959.80 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.20 %	73.30 %
Average income:	6,190 US$	13,080 US$
Corruption index:	61 (bad)	86 (very bad)

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	314,464 M US$	6.10 M US$	482,359 M US$	17.11 M US$
Gross national product:	318,932 M US$	6.19 M US$	392,925 M US$	13.93 M US$
Exported goods:	50,793 M US$	0.99 M US$	28,684 M US$	1.02 M US$
Imported goods:	70,840 M US$	1.38 M US$	25,810 M US$	0.92 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	205,379 km	3.99 km	96,189 km	3.41 km
Railways:	2,141 km	0.04 km	447 km	0.02 km
Waterways:	24,725 km	0.48 km	7,100 km	0.25 km
Harbours:	122	0.0024	281	0.0100
Passenger airports:	51	0.0010	25	0.0009

Energy balance

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	VEN: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	68.25 bn kWh	1.32 m kWh	71.96 bn kWh	2.55 m kWh
Energy production:	74.92 bn kWh	1.45 m kWh	109.30 bn kWh	3.88 m kWh
Energy export:	460.00 m kWh	8,929.17 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	378.00 m kWh	7,337.45 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	81.04 m t	1,573.09 t	112.34 m t	3,983.71 t

Telecommunication

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	Colombia	Venezuela
International dialing:	+57	+58
Internet domain:	.co	.ve

	COL total	COL per 1000 inh.	VEN total	VEN per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,248,026	141	5,251,182	186
Mobile cellulars:	67,672,570	1314	16,543,805	587
Internet server:	4,410,000	86	1,016,000	36
Internet users:	35,778,430	695	20,667,562	733
Broadband Internet:	8,434,168	164	2,565,909	91

Healthcare system

Details for Colombia and Venezuela

	Colombia	Venezuela
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.71	0.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.08	1.93
Diabetes:	7.4 %	7.0 %
Malaria:	8.5 %	32.7 %
HIV:	0.30 %	0.13 %
Tuberculosis:	0.41 ‰	0.47 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	85.0 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Colombia and Venezuela

	Colombia	Venezuela
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	32.1 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	23.0 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	28.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	75 %
Rain days:	12.1	8.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	7.0

Native languages

	Colombia	Venezuela
Spanish:	99.0 %	96.9 %
Chibcha:	0.4 %	n/a
Goajiro:	n/a	0.4 %
Arawakan:	0.1 %	n/a
Creole-English:	0.1 %	n/a
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
Warrau:	n/a	0.1 %
other:	0.3 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Colombia	Venezuela
Christianity:	90.0 %	98.0 %
other:	10.0 %	2.0 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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