Population
In Colombia, the population density is 42.37 people per square kilometer (110 per square mile). Because of this statistic, this country is considered to be sparsely populated. The total population of Colombia is 49,464,683 people. Colombia has approximately 129,632 foreign immigrants. Immigrants in Colombia represent 0.1 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. Immigrants in Colombia represent 0.3 percent of the total number of immigrants in the world. The ethnic diversity of Colombia is rather diverse according to a fractionalization scale based on ethnicity. Ethnic fractionalization (EF) deals with the number, sizes, socioeconomic distribution, and geographical location of distinct cultural groups, usually in a state or some otherwise delineated territory. Specific cultural features might refer to language, skin color, religion, ethnicity, customs and traditions, history, or other distinctive criteria, alone or in combination. Frequently, these features are used for social exclusion and the monopolization of power. The index of ethnic fractionalization in Colombia is 0.6014. This means that there is a relatively high number of unique ethnic groups in Colombia. EF is usually measured as 1 minus the Herfindahl concentration index of ethnolinguistic group shares, which reproduces the probability that two randomly drawn individuals from the population belong to different groups. The theoretical maximum of EF of 1 means that each person belongs to a different group. Read below for statistics of Colombia on median age and gender distribution at various ages.
Age
The median age is approximately 28.9 years. The median age for men is 27.9, while the median age for women is 29.9.
Gender
The sex ratio, or the number of males for each female (estimated at birth), is 1.06. It can be further divided into the following categories: sex ratio under 15 - 1.05; sex ratio from 15 to 64 - 0.97; sex ratio over 64 - 0.74; total sex ratio - 0.98. Total sex ratio is different from sex ratio estimated at birth. This is due to the fact that some newborns are considered in the sex ratio estimated at birth but pass away within the first weeks of their life and are not included in the total sex ratio.
