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Poor people in a horse-drawn buggy collect trash in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Bogotá. There have always been marked distinctions of social class in Colombia, although twentieth-century economic development has increased social mobility to some extent. Distinctions are based on wealth, social status, and race.
Social movements in Colombia (1 C) P. Prostitution in Colombia (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Social issues in Colombia" This category contains only the following page.
Category: Social issues by country. 24 languages. ... Social issues in Colombia (2 C, 1 P) Social issues in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (3 C, 1 P)
In 2010, 3.4% of the children under 5 years old in Colombia suffer from global malnutrition (deficiency of weight for age) and up to 13% suffer from chronic malnutrition (deficiency of height for age). The situation is worse for the indigenous peoples of Colombia, who in the same indicators recorded rates of 7.5% and 29.5% respectively. [7]
The economy of Colombia is characterized by its big inequality problem, its lack of social mobility and its lack of medium-to-high income jobs within the country motivate educated middle class Colombians, who can afford moving abroad but do not have strong incentives to stay in Colombia, to depart from home seeking a better life in a foreign ...
Mobility in Latin American and Colombia has been increasing in the previous years. 43% of the whole population changed social classes between the beginning of 1990 and the end of the 2000s. Most of this movement was upwards, it was a change from a lower to a higher social class, only 2% of the population suffered a downwards movement. [3]
Between 1984 and 1994 Colombia suffered the genocide of a political party called the Patriotic Union (UP). [60] The UP was born as a result of negotiations held in 1984 between the FARC , Colombia's oldest and largest guerrilla group, and the Colombian government that were to allow FARC members and supporters to follow an electoral path in ...
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