Personal Injury Victim Counts Across Colombian Municipalities

Colombian government data records counts of personal injury victims, excluding traffic accidents. The dataset includes municipal and departmental details for each incident. It is provided by www.datos.gov.co and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze temporal trends in personal injury victim counts using the FECHA HECHO column.
• Compare injury rates across regions by aggregating CANTIDAD by DEPARTAMENTO or MUNICIPIO.
• Assess gender distribution of victims by analyzing the SEXO column against CANTIDAD.
• Map injury hotspots by joining municipal-level data using COD_MUNI and COD_DEPTO geospatial codes.

Strengths

• Data includes geographic granularity with municipal (COD_MUNI) and departmental (COD_DEPTO) codes.
• Provides a clear metric for personal injury via the CANTIDAD (victim count) column.

Limitations

• Dataset size, row count, and temporal coverage are unknown, limiting assessment of scope.
• Excludes traffic accident injuries, which may represent a significant portion of bodily harm cases.

Provenance

Source

www.datos.gov.co

Freshness

Last updated March 2026.

Geography

Colombia, at municipal and departmental levels.