This work presents, based on statistics, an overview of the current Colombian situation in relation to international migration, focusing on emigration, which has the greatest impact in the analyzed context. The article favors official data, both national and from the destination countries of Colombians, collected, in some cases, by intergovernmental organizations. The article also presents information in order to explain the historical behavior of these statistics, which led to the current situation. The last decades are taken as a reference, when needed and according to availability of data, until the 1950s, but the main focus is on the current century.
Colombia; Migration; Migration statistics; Colombian migration