Colombian Business Structure by Economic Activity

Estructura empresarial según actividad económica provides a count of Colombian companies by economic sector and year. The dataset includes columns for CIIU economic activity code, description, year, number of companies, and assets. It is published by datos.gov.co and was last updated in December 2025.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the number of companies (No. De Empresas) by economic activity (CIIU) over different years (AÑO).
• Compare asset holdings (Activos) across different economic sectors (Descripción) to study capital intensity.
• Model the relationship between economic activity code (CIIU) and average assets per company (Activos / No. De Empresas).

Strengths

• Includes standardized CIIU economic activity codes for consistent classification.
• Contains multiple metrics per record: company count and total assets.

Limitations

• Sample size is unknown, limiting statistical reliability.
• Asset values may be aggregated totals without per-company distribution details.
• Data freshness is unclear beyond the last platform update date.

Provenance

Source

datos.gov.co

Time Range

Coverage implied by the AÑO column, but specific range is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated on platform: 2025-12-19.

Geography

Colombia