2. Location & Physical Features
• Colombia is located in the continent of
South America bordering the Caribbean
Sea, between Panama and Venezuela
• The Climate is tropical along the coast
and eastern plains; cooler in highlands
• Its physical size consists of a total of
1,138,910 sq km
• Colombia isn’t as large as the United
states
3. Population
• Colombia’s population was last recorded
at 46.9 million people in 2011
• The United states has a much larger
population consisting of 313.9 million as
of 2012
• Male population 23.5 million (49.2%)
• Female population 24.3 million (50.8%)
• Births this year (336,130)
• Deaths this year (101,089)
5. Life Expectancy & Literacy rates
• Life expectancy at
birth indicates the
number of years a
newborn infant would
live if prevailing
patterns of mortality
at the time of its birth
were to stay the same
throughout its life.
6. • 49% of children are enrolled in pre-primary school.
• 88% of boys and 87% of girls are enrolled in primary
school
• Due to a national shortage of education facilities, the
Colombian government has adopted an automatic
promotion policy meaning that you would automatically
move up no matter what.
• Secondary education is divided into 4 years of
compulsory basic secondary education
7. HealthcareBenefits
• The national constitution was reformed in
1991, and with this purpose the general
system of social security was reformed
with the implementation of Law 100
• that extended widely the health coverage
to the population
8. • Government of Colombia is a republic
• It is basically sperated into powers of
executive, judicial and legislative branches
• The government provides the framework for
a welfare state and a unitary republic.
9. Colombian Economy
• Colombia has a free market economy
• They are financially tied to the United States
with trading
• The original idea of Minister of
Finance, Rudolf Homes, was that the country
should import agricultural products in which it
was not competitiveent tied to the United
States
