Urban Green Spaces and Public Access in Colombia, 1990-2020

United Nations Human Settlements Programme data on urban open spaces and green areas in Colombia. The dataset includes metrics such as the average share of urban areas allocated to streets and open public spaces, the share of the urban population with convenient access to an open public space, and green area per capita. Data is provided for the years 1990, 2000, 2010, and 2020.

Use Cases

• Assess urban planning equity based on the share of the population with convenient access to open public spaces.
• Track changes in urban green space coverage over time based on green area per capita metrics.
• Analyze the allocation of urban land for public use based on the average share of urban areas dedicated to streets and open spaces.

Strengths

• Data covers a multi-decade time series with snapshots from 1990 to 2020.
• Published by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, an authoritative source on urban data.
• Includes multiple standardized metrics for assessing urban green and open spaces.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic or methodological bias inherent to the source platform.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Human Settlements Programmes, Data and Analytics Section

Time Range

1990, 2000, 2010, 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:48:04.324451; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Colombia