DEVELOPMENT IN COLOMBIA• Literacy and education (Enrollment/literacy rates)• Health (Pollution, birth rates, death rates, spending on healthcare)• Corruption indicators and equality• Economy of Colombia

LITERACY AND EDUCATION IN COLOMBIALiteracy of adults (+15)

• 81.38% in 1993

• Gap in information from 1993 to 2004

• From 2004-Present, the literacy rate has been at about 92-94%-- In rural areas the literacy rate is only 67%

• The youth literacy rate has been over 90% in both males and females since 1993, and over 95% since 1996

EDUCATION IN COLOMBIA• Primary basic education

grades 1-5-Secondary basic education grades 6-9

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• Middle vocational education grades 10-11

• University undergrad and postgrad degrees

• Primary school enrollment is overall good but in rural areas the teachers are poorly qualified and drop rates are high

• Enrollment for secondary education has risen steadily from 50% in 1986 to 71% in 2000, to over 97% in 2011

ENROLLMENT RATES FOR SCHOOLS IN COLOMBIA

1990 1995 2000 20050

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

Primary enrollmentSecondary enrollmentTertiary enrollment

WELFARE IN COLOMBIA DIFFERENT INDICATORS

Birthrate (annual/1000)

Deathrate (annual/1000)

Life expectancy (years)

Spending on healthcare (Per capita)

GENDER EQUALITY IN COLOMBIA

• Women are more affected by unemployment, 30% solely responsible for households

• As a result of constant state of conflict, women are more vulnerable to sexual and physical violence

• Colombia scored 0.482 in the gini index in 2011, placing 91st out of 146 countries

• According to the Global Gender Gap report Colombia scores 0.67 on a scale in which 0 is inequality and 1 is equality

GDP PER CAPITA IN COLOMBIA

• Current GDP/Capita: 10,000-ish USD• Higher than the majority of South American countries

INCOME INEQUALITY

• LORENZ CURVE• Gini Index: 59%• Higher than the

majority of other South American countries

• GNI higher than the majority of South American Countries

CORRUPTION INDICATORS

IN COLOMBIA• Drug trafficking and guerilla

paramilitary operations. • Possible reasons lie in the long

history of corruption in the country

Transparency international ranking- 94th out of 177- 36 on a scale in

which 1 is highly corrupt and 100 non-corrupt

- Between 1988 and 1998 Colombia lost 1% of its annual GDP due to corruption

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