Colombia 
Facts
Population:
40,349,388 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years:
31.88% (male 6,507,282; female 6,354,454)
15-64 years:
63.37% (male 12,452,182; female 13,117,707)
65 years and over:
4.75% (male 859,967; female 1,057,796) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.64% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:
22.41 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:
5.69 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:
-0.33 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:
at birth:
1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years:
1.02 male(s)/female
15-64 years:
0.95 male(s)/female
65 years and over:
0.81 male(s)/female
total population:
0.97 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:
23.96 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
total population:
70.57 years
male:
66.71 years
female:
74.55 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:
2.66 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
0.31% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
71,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:
1,700 (1999 est.)
Nationality:
noun:
Colombian(s)
adjective:
Colombian
Ethnic groups:
mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Amerindian 3%, Amerindian 1%
Religions:
Roman Catholic 90%
Languages:
Spanish
Literacy:
definition:
age 15 and over can read and write
total population:
91.3%
male:
91.2%
female:
91.4% (1995 est.)
GDP:
purchasing power parity - $250 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:
3% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $6,200 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
19%
industry:
26%
services:
55% (1999 est.)
Population below poverty line:
55% (1999)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1%
highest 10%:
44% (1999)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
9% (2000)
Labor force:
18.3 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:
services 46%, agriculture 30%, industry 24% (1990)
Unemployment rate:
20% (2000 est.)
Budget:
revenues:
$22 billion
expenditures:
$24 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2000 est.)
Industries:
textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds
Industrial production growth rate:
11% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:
43.574 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
22.27%
hydro:
76.19%
nuclear:
0%
other:
1.54% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:
40.532 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:
27 million kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:
35 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp
Exports:
$14.5 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas, cut flowers
Exports - partners:
US 50%, EU 14%, Andean Community of Nations 16%, Japan 2% (2000 est.)
Imports:
$12.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:
industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 35%, EU 16%, Andean Community of Nations 15%, Japan 5% (2000 est.)
Debt - external:
$34 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
$40.7 million (1995)
Currency:
Colombian peso (COP)
Currency code:
COP
Exchange rates:
Colombian pesos per US dollar - 2,241.43 (January 2001), 2087.90 (2000), 1,756.23 (1999), 1,426.04 (1998), 1,140.96 (1997), 1,036.69 (1996)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Statistics: CIA World Factbook.
Press
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Arte
(Cultural quarterly), Bogotá
Cien Días
(Left-wing magazine), Bogotá
(Centrist newsmagazine), Bogotá
http://www.cromos.com.co
Cronista Demócrata
(Centrist magazine), Bogotá
Diario del Caribe
(Liberal), Barranquilla
Diario del Otún
(Conservative), Pereira
(Conservative, economics), Bogotá
http://www.dinero.com
Colombia in the News
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The launch of a major guerrilla offensive in July that penetrated within 40 miles of Bogota, the Colombian capital, has dealt a potentially fatal blow to President Andres Pastrana's quest to broker a peace deal ending more than three decades of civil war, warns the conservative El Pais of Cali.
President Andres Pastrana's much-heralded peace negotiations with Colombia's biggest guerrilla groups have fallen flat, reports London's conservative newsmagazine The Economist.
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