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SITUATION OVERVIEW
• Despite being an upper-middle-income country, Colombia faces a
complex humanitarian and food security crisis, with 13 million
moderately or severely food-insecure (25 percent of the
population) according to the latest WFP assessment (EFSA, 2024).
Furthermore, 37% of migrants with the intention to stay in
Colombia are food insecure, while 72% of migrants in transit
continue to remain food insecure.
• The situation in Colombia is also marked by internal violence,
forced displacements, widespread presence of illegal armed
groups, ongoing mixed-migration flows, severe climate-related
emergencies, and economic shocks. In 2025 alone, conflict
escalation affected over 1.6M people, triple the 2024 figure.
Displacement, confinement, and mobility restrictions surged
across several departments. Extreme weather has hit more than 1
million people, with floods and landslides destroying key road
infrastructure and causing shortages of food, medicines and
essential supplies. Only in the first two months of 2026, about
16,000 people have been affected by violence and more than
262.000 have been impacted by weather-related events. The
country is currently in the electoral process to elect a new
congress and president. Violence could affect the electoral
process, especially in rural areas with limited state presence.
• According to the 2026 Humanitarian Response Plan, 6.9 million
people need humanitarian assistance, of whom 6.6 million need
Food Security and Nutrition response. Likewise, Colombia’s
decades-long armed conflict resulted in 10.1 million victims of
which 90 percent are internally displaced persons.
• About 2.8 million migrants are currently reported living in the
country, representing one of the largest figures across Latin
America, while thousands more transit the country irregularly to
other countries in region.
• WFP operates in Colombia since 1969, and its Country Strategic
Plan aligns with the Government’s priorities on food security,
humanitarian response, recovery, development, and capacitystrengthening
to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2
(Zero Hunger) and SDG 17 (Partnerships for Goals).