According to the UN in Colombia 20% of the richest population consumes 62% of the total of goods and services and 64% of the inhabitants live on the threshold of the national poverty.
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22% of Colombians survive with two dollars daily and 8.2% with one dollar.
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According to the Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, in Colombia, 2 million children are mistreated in their homes yearly.
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The World Report on Human Development of 2004 revealed that in Colombia indigence went from 21.8 % in 1997 to 25.9% in 2003.
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Colombias Index of Human Development HDI went down 9 positions in the world scale.
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According to CEPAL extreme poverty is still very high: 222 million Latin-American and Caribbean people are poor, out of which 96 million live in indigence, equivalent to 18.6% of the population.
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In Colombia, at least 50% of the displaced population is under the age of 15 and a third is younger than 10 years of age.
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According to UNICEF and Human Rights Watch in Colombia 11 thousand children are enrolled in armed outlaw groups.
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According to the National Statistics Department, DANE, infant mortality in Colombia is 28 per thousand.
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In Colombia 10% of the richest homes receive income 30 times higher than that of 10% of the poorest homes.
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According to the data of CEPAL, in Colombia 60% of the population is below the poverty line and 25% in extreme poverty.
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A study of the Food World Program of the UN and CEPAL about hunger, malnutrition and nutritional insecurity of the region, revealed that hunger and malnutrition affect one out of every 10 inhabitants in Latin America, although the region produces enough food to feed 1.800 million people, three times the total population of the region.
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According to the report of the Counsel for Human Rights and Displacement (CODHES) and Social Pastoral, between 1995 and 2005 in Colombia around three million people were expelled from their habitual resident or work places within the frame of the internal armed conflict and other violence tied to disputes over territory, population and resources.
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