Colombia vs Taiwan

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Visa-free entry is 180 days against 90. On the 9 measures both countries carry, Colombia leads 2.

The difference at a glance

Green favours Taiwan. Country figures. Cities inside one country differ, often by more than the countries differ from each other.

Head to head

Each row is named for the thing more of which is better, so a longer bar always wins.

ColombiaTaiwan
180Longer visa-free staydays, typical Western passport90
39%Lower income taxtop personal rate, not an effective rate40%
77.9Longer life expectancyyears at birth80.8
24 monthsLonger nomad visamax stay, months24 months

Longer is better. Bar length is the rank among all countries we hold that measure for, not a share of the pair.

Every country measure, side by side

National figures throughout. What a city inside either country costs, and how its own sex ratio runs, is the table below this one.

National men per 100 womenthe city figure is above100.5n/aโ€”
Visa-free entrylongest headline entry for a typical Western passport1809090 days
Top personal income tax rateheadline rate, not an effective rate39%40%1 point
English proficiencyadult proficiency score480n/aโ€”
Homicide rateper 100,000 per year24.9n/aโ€”
Life expectancyyears at birth77.980.82.9 years
GDP per capitacurrent USD$22,640n/aโ€”
Female labour force participationno direction is asserted52%52%โ€”
Fertility ratebirths per woman1.630.69โ€”
Obesity, womenage-standardised30.7%n/aโ€”
Mean height, womenadults158 cm / 5โ€ฒ2โ€ณ161 cm / 5โ€ฒ3โ€ณโ€”
Political stability0 to 100, higher is more stable49/100n/aโ€”
Low corruption0 to 100, higher is cleaner42/100n/aโ€”
Digital nomad visamax stay; headline route, not a guarantee24 months24 months0.00
Never-married women, 20โ€“39census or survey, years differ between countries24.0%36.4%โ€”
Main languagethe city may differSpanishMandarin Chineseโ€”

Data updated August 6, 2026.

Every city we track in both

A national sex ratio is an average of places that do not resemble each other. These are the cities behind it.

Colombia

CityMen/100 womenEssentials
Calimunicipality level87.3$708
Pereiramunicipality level93.4$859
Cartagenamunicipality level96.8$1,110
Barranquillamunicipality level98.2$852
Santa Martamunicipality level98.3$928
Bogotamunicipality level98.7$960
Medellinmunicipality level100.3$1,178
Bucaramangamunicipality level100.4$783

Taiwan

CityMen/100 womenEssentials
Taipei Citycity level97.9$977
Taichung Citycity level104.1$689
Taoyuan Citycity level105.4$728
Kaohsiung Citycity level106.2$696
Hsinchu Citycity level106.8$718
Tainan Citycity level108.3$681

Colombia spans 13.1 points across its 8 tracked cities, Taiwan 10.4 across 6. The national figure is the average of neither.

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