World population/Colombia
South America
Population of Colombia
53,936,231
Growing by 0.02 people every second
#28
world rank
0.65%
of world population
+0.90%
yearly change
+486,041
people this year
684,798
births a year
304,669
deaths a year
How the figure for Colombia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Colombia at 53,936,231 on 1 July 2026, and projects 54,422,272 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.02 people added every second.
That places Colombia at number 28 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.65 per cent of everyone alive, and among the largest of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 684,798 births and 304,669 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.