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Colombia

A nation of 53.4 million on two oceans, more than half of it forest, whose essential health care scores 82 out of 100 and whose first metro line is rising over Bogota.

  • 53.4mCitizens, 2025
  • 82Essential health care, WHO index
  • $530MFor the Bogota Metro, 2025
Enter the Design Studio Read the Letter The three mandates

You are entering

The Perfect ColombiaDesign Studio

Where Colombians and Co-designers design the nation they want to live in.

Everyone who shares a vision, a voice or an enterprise here becomes a Co-designer of Perfect Colombia: one of a community of selfless people, at home and abroad, building a nation where every citizen has a decent life.

Become a Co-designer

Design Studio · Work with Perfect Nations

One mission. Three depths.

Every mandate makes the same four moves for Colombia. What changes is how deep we go, and how far the work travels toward market.

  1. 01Identify the assets
  2. 02Estimate Perfect Capita
  3. 03Co-design the capital architecture
  4. 04Launch the instruments and structures
  1. Mandate 01

    The Nation Briefing

    3 hours

    A private session for the people who decide.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe five sovereign assets on this page, walked through.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaCoverage of 18.7 and the Gap, explained.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe instruments that could close the Gap, shortlisted.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsThe path to market, outlined.
    You leave withThe gap, named and sized
    Request a Nation Briefing
  2. Mandate 02

    The Blueprint Lab

    3 days

    Your team and ours, working the blueprint together.

    1. 01Identify the assetsThe ledger tested against your ministries’ own data.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaEach of the seven standards costed in Colombian prices.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureOne financing structure, drawn with your team.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsA term sheet and the partners to approach.
    You leave withThe structure, drawn
    Plan a Blueprint Lab
  3. Mandate 03

    The Sovereign Mandate

    End to end

    Led personally by the President and CEO.

    1. 01Identify the assetsA full sovereign asset ledger, valued and verified.
    2. 02Estimate Perfect CapitaPerfect Capita set and agreed with government, with a monitoring plan.
    3. 03Co-design the capital architectureThe full structure: legal form, credit enhancement, guarantees and pricing.
    4. 04Launch the instrumentsTaken to investors and development partners, through to close.
    You leave withA structure ready for market
    Discuss a Sovereign Mandate

For the Government of Colombia, its development partners and investors. Scope and fees are agreed in writing before any work begins.

Colombia in BloomNation Portrait · The Gallery
Perfect Nations™ · Letters to the NationsColombia

Dear Colombia,

Yellow, blue and red: the riches of your land, the two oceans that bound it, and the courage that won it. More than half your land is forest, and essential health care scores 82 out of 100, among the highest in the region.

“You arranged your disaster finance before the earthquake came. Now arrange a safe toilet for every Colombian home.”

Yours in design,Preeti SinhaPresident and CEO, Perfect Nations Read the full letter

Dispatches

Letters from the markets.

Short analyses of the instruments and investments shaping Colombia, written for ministers, investors and citizens by Preeti Sinha and by Andres Mejia, Nation Steward of Colombia.

All dispatches
Perfect Nations™ · State of NationsForthcoming

The first dispatch on Colombia is in preparation.

Dispatches appear here as soon as they are published.

Design Studio · Writings

Write Perfect Colombia into being.

An essay, an article or a true story of up to 1,500 words: your vision of Perfect Colombia and the economic solutions to achieve it. Original and unpublished, published with your name and your permission.

Submit your writing or email contact@perfectnations.org

Sovereign Assets

Five assets no balance sheet counts.

Each is owned today, earns today, and can lift Colombia closer to Perfect Capita.

  • 01

    The People

    53.4mCitizens, 2025

    79 in every hundred live in towns and cities; the rest live on the land they farm and fish.

  • 02

    The Land

    36.5%Of land in farms and pasture

    The land that feeds the nation, and the first place a citizen dividend can be earned.

  • 03

    The Forest

    53.7%Of land under forest

    Standing forest holds the water, soil and carbon that the world will pay to keep.

  • 04

    The Water

    41,459 m³Renewable fresh water per person

    Enough to supply every home, once it is stored, treated and piped.

  • 05

    The Power

    76.2%Of energy from renewables, 2021

    Sun, wind, water and biomass already carry part of the load; the rest is the opportunity.

What each asset is worth, and how far it can carry Colombia toward Perfect Capita, is the question our research and our guests take up below.

Sovereign Assets

Design Studio · Perfect Capita

The Colombia wheel: held at 18.7 by shelter

Colombia: coverage of the seven basic living standardsFOOD72WATER74.3SHELTER18.7ENERGY93EDUCATION48.6HEALTH82LIVELIHOOD63COVERAGE18.7OF 100 · SET BY SHELTER
  • To setPerfect CapitaThe yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards, set with Colombia in its own prices.
  • To setThe price of Perfect ColombiaPerfect Capita times the population: the national bill, each year.
  • 18.7CoverageOut of 100, set by shelter, the standard Colombia provides least.
  • ~43mThe GapColombians without a safely managed toilet at home: 81 in every hundred.

The Living LineThe poverty line measures income. The Living Line measures a life: food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Perfect Capita is the yearly cost, per person, of lifting everyone above the Living Line in all seven basic living standards. Coverage scores each standard strictly out of 100, and a nation is held at its weakest: Colombia at 18.7, by shelter, with education at 48.6 and livelihood at 63 next.

Perfect Nations estimate, to be confirmed with Colombia. Figures marked dated rest on surveys more than five years old; lenient measures are marked as such. The strict measures

Strict measures. Food: share not moderately or severely food insecure (FAO). Water: safely managed drinking water where measured; where it is not, basic water, marked as such. Shelter: the lower of safely managed sanitation and the share outside urban slums. Energy: the lower of electricity per person against 1,000 kWh and clean cooking. Education: the lower of children reading by the end of primary school and lower-secondary completion. Health: WHO service coverage index. Livelihood: share above the stricter of the national poverty line and the World Bank line for the nation’s income group. Each figure links to its source.

The Research · Capital Architecture

Colombia arranges its finance before the shock arrives. Next, a safe toilet in every home.

The record in figures

  • $530MBogota Metro Line 1: Viaduct, stations and 23 trainsWorld Bank, 2025
  • $200MDisaster risk credit line (Cat DDO), additional financing: Budget support after the 10 August earthquakeWorld Bank, 2026

The register

  • MultilateralActiveBogota Metro Line 1Approved December 2025 · Investment project financing$530M

    Viaduct, stations and 23 trains

    Funds the heaviest construction phase ahead of opening in 2028.

    World Bank

    Source
  • MultilateralActiveDisaster risk credit line (Cat DDO), additional financingApproved September 2026 · Contingent financing$200M

    Budget support after the 10 August earthquake

    Adds to the contingent line arranged in February 2025, so help reaches communities fast.

    World Bank

    Source

The Colombia Newswire

State of Nations
Andres Mejia, Nation Steward of Colombia

Andres MejiaNation Steward of Colombia · SI ResearcherEvery change is sourced and reviewed before it is published.

Capital Architecture

Design Studio · Enterprises

Already working in Colombia.

Suggest an enterprise
  • In preparation

    The enterprises building Perfect Colombia

    The Stewards are verifying the companies and social enterprises already delivering the seven basic living standards in Colombia. Suggest one to include.

    Suggest an enterprise

Design Studio · Voices of Colombia

Launching soon

The people already
building it.

The question every guest answers
“What does Colombia already own, and how could it pay for a decent life for every citizen?”

We are looking for the people with real stories from Colombia: the leaders who built something that works, and the keepers of local knowledge who know how their communities live, cope and thrive.

Nominate yourself Suggest a guest

The Colombia Design Studio is open

Design Perfect Colombia with us.

Share your vision, suggest a guest, or write to us. Every message receives a personal reply.

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Sources
  1. World Bank, World Development Indicators: population 2025, urban share, agricultural and forest land, renewable fresh water per person and renewable energy share, read 30 October 2026.
  2. Strict Perfect Capita inputs: FAO food insecurity, WHO/UNICEF water and sanitation, World Bank clean cooking, learning poverty and poverty lines, UNESCO completion and the WHO service coverage index (2023, via Our World in Data).
  3. International Monetary Fund and World Bank press releases for each register line, as linked.
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