Colombia
Trott Bailey Family Abundance · Country Profile
Colombia
Tracking baselineHistorical tracking baselineMoney Gate 20 · Overall Gate 0.7.0 Money Gate 20 Food, Housing / Land, Healthcare, Transportation and Water / Energy are four points each. All five must reach 4/4 before the country can cross zero. Money may still exist as an exchange tool; it cannot remain the permission slip for these five basics. Read Money Is a Weak Civilization Engine
Five basics stand between this country and zero
This profile has a direct five-part Money Gate audit. Any category below 4/4 keeps the whole country below zero.
9% weightHuman Time & Burden Return
+28.5
Whether productivity, infrastructure and institutions return usable lifetime to people and families.
TBFC target: Necessary contribution should not require people to sell most of their waking life merely to retain access to food, shelter, care and ordinary family life.
Access-gate research question: How much paid work or income-producing activity is required before an ordinary household can keep access to basic life, and what usable family time remains afterward?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Colombia has expanding public services and productive capacity, but monetary poverty, unpaid care and administrative friction remain heavy household burdens. In 2025 monetary poverty was 28.0% nationally and 39.5% in rural/centros poblados areas.
DANE — Monetary poverty 2025
8% weightHousing, Shelter & Housing Reach
+28.5
Whether adequate shelter physically exists and actually reaches people without excessive cost, exclusion or vacancy mismatch.
TBFC target: Adequate family shelter should remain reachable without lifetime dependence on rent, mortgage debt or ability to pay.
Access-gate research question: What share of ordinary shelter access depends on rent, mortgage debt, purchase price or other recurring payment, and what dependable non-market routes exist at national scale?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Housing stock and public programmes provide capacity, but shelter remains substantially market- and income-mediated. The national housing deficit and household utility/rent payments keep Reach well below physical capacity.
DANE — Quality of Life Survey 2025
9% weightFood, Nourishment & Free Food Abundance
+41.8
Physical food and nutrient capacity, nourishment reach, waste/loss, public edible landscapes and free food access.
TBFC target: Nutritious food should exist in multiplying abundance and remain reachable even when a household has no money to spend.
Access-gate research question: Can people obtain adequate nutritious food when they cannot pay, and are free/public/productive-food routes large enough to be ordinary rather than exceptional?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
The school feeding programme reaches millions of children and hundreds of municipalities report universal PAE school coverage, creating real free-food access. Ordinary household food remains purchased and poverty makes that gate material.
Ministry of Education — PAE school feeding
6% weightWater & Sanitation Abundance
+43.5
Safe water, sanitation, reliability, capture, reuse, storage and living-landscape water capacity.
TBFC target: Safe water and sanitation should be dependable life infrastructure, not conditional on household purchasing power.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain safe water and sanitation when income falls, and which payment, disconnection or infrastructure barriers interrupt access?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Household water and sanitation reach has improved, but service continuity and quality remain uneven and households are commonly billed for aqueduct service. Rural differences prevent a high friction score.
DANE — Quality of Life Survey household services
5% weightEnergy & Household Capability
+52.3
Whether usable, reliable energy reaches households and removes burdens across water, food, health, cooling, cooking and movement.
TBFC target: Essential household energy should support cooking, cooling, water, food preservation and care without money becoming the switch that turns basic capability on or off.
Access-gate research question: Can households retain essential energy for cooking, cooling, water and food preservation when they cannot pay, and how often does price or disconnection reduce capability?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Electricity capacity and household connection are broad, while tariffs and service reliability remain household constraints. DANE household surveys explicitly track whether homes pay for electricity and whether supply is continuous.
DANE — Quality of Life Survey household services
7% weightHealth & Care Reach
+58.3
Whether prevention, primary care, medicine, maternity care, dentistry and specialist capability reach people when needed.
TBFC target: Prevention, maternity, dentistry, medicine and necessary treatment should be reachable because care is needed, not because payment can be produced.
Access-gate research question: Can necessary care be obtained because it is needed, or do price, insurance, employment, debt or other financial tests materially delay or prevent access?
Abundance Gap: -5.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Health-insurance affiliation reached 98.42% by December 2025, a major Reach strength. About 312,500 health-right tutelas in 2025 show severe administrative/time friction in converting nominal coverage into timely services and medicines.
MinSalud — Health insurance coverage
6% weightEducation & Human Capability
+73.5
Foundational learning plus practical, technical and enduring civilization capability retained by people.
TBFC target: Foundational learning and useful capability should be reachable as part of civilization life rather than purchased according to family income.
Access-gate research question: Which essential learning and capability routes are genuinely reachable regardless of family income, and where do fees, debt or paid enrichment create decisive access gaps?
Abundance Gap: 0.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
In 2025, 97% of public higher-education enrolment was tuition-free, covering 939,282 students, and 2026 rules removed additional academic charges for vulnerable applicants. Living and transport costs still matter.
MinEducación — Public higher-education gratuity
4% weightMobility & Reachability
+34.0
Local, regional and national movement that connects people to family, services, work, learning and public life without consuming excessive time.
TBFC target: Ordinary local and regional movement should be available for family, care, learning and civic life without travel becoming a paywall.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary people reach family, care, learning and public life without high recurring fares, vehicle costs, debt or fuel dependence?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Road, urban transit and active-mobility capacity are substantial, but no nationwide zero-fare ordinary public-transport baseline was verified. Fares, fuel and territorial gaps remain payment and time gates.
MinTransporte — National bicycle promotion program
8% weightFamily Formation, Continuity & Child Stability
Fertility agenda · target 5.0
Family continuity is measured partly by whether children are actually multiplying. New and re-reviewed profiles use total fertility as 40% of Family Formation: 2.1 births per woman is the replacement floor and earns positive but limited credit; the authored target is 5.0.
Read A Civilization Built for Mothers and Fathers
+0.9
Conditions that let people form stable families, raise children, share parental time and continue family life without punishing material barriers.
TBFC target: People should be able to form, continue and multiply family life. Trott Bailey Family Civilization uses 5.0 children per woman as the fertility target; 2.1 is the replacement floor, not the aspiration, while housing, care, food and time should not be withheld behind financial thresholds.
Access-gate research question: How strongly do housing, childcare, health, food and work-income requirements delay or destabilize family formation and continuity, and is total fertility moving above replacement toward the 5.0-children-per-woman civilization target?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Family Fertility Method 1.0.0: 60% lived family environment + 40% fertility performance.
Published indicators
DANE — Vital statistics 2025 preliminary · 2025
SourceVerified evidence
Family supports and education/health access coexist with serious housing, poverty and care pressure. Preliminary 2025 TFR was only 1.0 child per woman, sharply below replacement and the authored target.
DANE — Vital statistics 2025 preliminary
5% weightLand Access & Spatial Freedom
+50.8
Whether land and settlement choice reach ordinary people rather than opportunity being functionally trapped inside expensive commercial centres.
TBFC target: Suitable productive land and settlement opportunity should not be functionally reserved for those able to outbid everyone else.
Access-gate research question: Can ordinary families gain secure use of suitable productive ground without first accumulating enough money to purchase, finance or outbid others?
Abundance Gap: +15.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Agrarian reform created a real publicly mediated land-access route: the land agency reported 703,121 hectares managed for access and 1,878,711 hectares formalized in 2025. Eligibility, waiting and market land remain constraints.
National Land Agency — Agrarian reform progress
6% weightPeace of Mind, Happiness, Beauty & Delight
+43.0
Peace of mind, social support, everyday safety, public beauty, recreation, nature, culture and delight reachable without constant payment.
TBFC target: Beauty, nature, recreation, rest and public delight should belong to ordinary life rather than appearing mainly after payment.
Access-gate research question: How much everyday rest, nature, recreation, culture and public beauty is freely reachable, rather than principally accessed through paid venues, travel or private property?
Abundance Gap: +5.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Colombia has 1,563 public libraries and meaningful free museum/cultural routes, alongside exceptional natural beauty. Violence, territorial inequality and travel distance reduce ordinary peace-of-mind reach.
MinCulturas — Public library network
6% weightLiving Ground, Biodiversity & Resilience
+50.5
Whether soil, forests, wetlands, habitat, pollinators, species and water-holding landscapes are strengthening rather than being consumed.
TBFC target: Regenerating soil, water, habitat and food-bearing landscapes should be maintained as shared life-supporting capacity rather than only where a transaction makes them profitable.
Access-gate research question: Are regenerative land, water and habitat functions maintained as life-supporting infrastructure even when no direct commercial return is available?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Colombia has exceptional biodiversity and forest capacity. Deforestation fell materially, but 113,608 hectares were still lost in 2024 and active Amazon hotspots remain, so ecological capacity is not treated as full regeneration.
MinAmbiente — Deforestation 2024
5% weightJustice, Safety & Institutional Friction
+39.8
Physical safety, usable justice, legal identity, reliable public administration and low needless institutional burden.
TBFC target: Usable justice, legal identity, safety and ordinary administration should remain accessible regardless of wealth.
Access-gate research question: Do fees, legal costs, bail, fines, documentation costs or ability to hire expertise materially change access to justice, safety or public administration?
Abundance Gap: +10.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Casas de Justicia, mobile justice and public-defender routes provide genuine free access. Serious impunity and territorial unevenness show that access to an office does not always become realized justice.
MinJusticia — Casas de Justicia
4% weightDurability, Repair & Material Return
+24.5
Whether useful materials, infrastructure and goods are maintained, repairable, recovered and cycled instead of repeatedly becoming waste.
TBFC target: Repair, maintenance and useful material circulation should protect capability instead of forcing repeated repurchase as the default route to continued use.
Access-gate research question: Do repair and maintenance remain practically accessible, or do pricing, proprietary restrictions and replacement incentives turn continued use into repeated purchasing?
Abundance Gap: +20.0
Category Method 0.0.1: Capacity, Reach, Friction and Return/Regeneration scored separately.
Verified evidence
Colombia generates about 14.4 million tonnes of solid waste yearly and only 16.9% of ordinary solid waste was recovered in the reviewed evidence. Basura Cero is a positive transition, not proof of circular abundance.
DNP — Waste recovery and recyclers
6% weightInternational Accessibility, Migration & Human Welcome
+75.3
How easily visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbours can enter, remain, regularize status and participate in ordinary civic and economic life.
TBFC target: A country should have a humane vision for visitors, migrants, refugees and neighbouring families: practical entry, legal identity, family continuity, protection from statelessness, a route into ordinary life and a real place to contribute and grow with the society.
Access-gate research question: Who can enter and stay, how wide is visa-free/eVisa/eTA reach, can newcomers regularize status and work, are refugees and children protected from statelessness, can families remain together, and does the country have a practical long-term vision for newcomers to join ordinary life and contribute?
International Scoring 1.0.0 with category-specific rail weights.
Verified evidence
Colombia has built one of the region's largest migrant regularisation systems: 2.83 million Venezuelans were present in August 2025, 83% in regular status, with free first PPT issuance and child-statelessness safeguards. Hundreds of thousands remained irregular, so practical welcome is strong but incomplete.
Migración Colombia — Migration panorama
6% weightExternal Footprint & Non-Extractive Global Conduct
+39.8
Documented effects a country, its public institutions or materially supported programs have beyond its borders: beneficial contribution, mutuality, external harm, accountability and repair.
TBFC target: A civilization should increase useful local capability beyond its borders through medicine, training, disaster help, technical cooperation, peace-building and other mutually useful contribution, while avoiding extraction, exported harm and displacement.
Access-gate research question: Do the country’s actions abroad increase health, skill, safety, resilience and locally retained capability, or do they export extraction, coercion, environmental harm, displacement, debt or other burdens?
International Scoring 1.0.0 with category-specific rail weights.
Verified evidence
Colombia runs South-South cooperation in Africa, Haiti and the Caribbean, including agriculture, food security, conservation and disaster capability. Fossil exports, deforestation and other external environmental burdens prevent a high non-extractive score.
APC Colombia — South-South cooperation with AfricaTrott Bailey Family Civilization Target
The end state: life beyond monetary gatekeeping
Trott Bailey Family Civilization treats money as an exchange tool rather than a prerequisite for access to life. The long-run abundance target is that food, water, shelter, care, education, mobility, land access and ordinary public life remain reachable even when a person cannot pay.
This target is an authored civilization standard. The diagnostic evidence score can now draw from all 16 weighted categories. The five-part Money Gate remains a separate domestic threshold asking whether food, housing/land, healthcare, transportation and water/energy are genuinely reachable without payment before any civilization can cross zero.
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