World and people

Official name: Republic of Colombia, is a sovereign country located in the northwestern region of South America, which is constituted as a unitary, social and democratic state of law whose form of government is presidential. It is the only nation in South America that has coasts on the Pacific Ocean and access to the Atlantic through the Caribbean Sea, where it has various islands such as the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. It is the twenty-eighth most populous country in the world, with a population of 51 million inhabitants,1819 it is also the second nation with the most Spanish speakers, only behind Mexico. It has a multicultural population, which reflects the influence of the large-scale European colonization, native peoples, and African labor, with migratory waves from Europe and the Middle East during the 20th century. Colombia's purchasing power parity gross domestic product ranks fourth in Latin America and the 28th place worldwide.  Colombian nom...

Two Central American nations lead the ranking of the happiest countries in Latin America, according to the latest world ranking of well-being called the World Happiness Report 2021. In the region, Costa Rica stands out as the happiest in 16th place globally, followed by Guatemala, Uruguay and Brazil, in a list of 149 nations that takes into account data from the last three years. The authors of the study, sponsored by the United Nations and published since 2012, use polls from the Gallup company that ask respondents about their perception of happiness and cross these data with GDP figures, data on individual freedom, corruption and others to reach a result. Comparing this list with others prior to the pandemic, the authors of the study find that there has been "a significantly higher frequency of negative emotions" in a third of countries. But in 22 countries, there is no perceived decline in well-being or in the perception that people have of their own lives, summarizes, sur...