What the Data Shows
Colombia’s registered births fell from 647,521 in 2016 to a provisional 433,678 in 2025. DANE classifies the 2016–2024 values as definitive and the 2025 value as provisional. The endpoint decline was 213,843 births, equal to 33.0%. The provisional 2025 total was also 20,223 below the definitive 2024 count.
Data table
Unit: thousand births · Period: 2016–2025
| Rank | Entry | Value | Period |
|---|
| 1 | 2016 | 647.5K | 2016 |
| 2 | 2017 | 656.7K | 2017 |
| 3 | 2018 | 649.1K | 2018 |
| 4 | 2019 | 642.7K | 2019 |
| 5 | 2020 | 629.4K | 2020 |
| 6 | 2021 | 616.9K | 2021 |
| 7 | 2022 | 573.6K | 2022 |
| 8 | 2023 | 515.5K | 2023 |
| 9 | 2024 | 453.9K | 2024 |
| 10 | 2025 provisional | 433.7K | 2025 provisional |
Sources
Source 1: Vital Statistics, Second Semester 2025 Provisional Results
Publisher: National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE)
Dataset/table: Annual registered births and fertility rates, 2016–2025
Units: births; births per 1,000 women
Date checked: 2026-07-19
Evidence: Supports the definitive 2016–2024 birth series, provisional 2025 births and the general and adolescent fertility-rate series.
Data notes & caveats
The 2025 total is provisional; 2016–2024 are definitive in the release. Birth registrations are counts, not fertility rates.
Methodology
Uses DANE's complete 2016–2025 birth series from one release and reports the endpoint and latest annual changes.
Source consistency notes
All points use DANE registered births and one annual series; only the final point has provisional status.
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