Colombia 
Facts
Population: 44,379,598 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 29.8% (male 6,696,471/female 6,539,612)
15-64 years: 64.8% (male 14,012,140/female 14,732,874)
65 years and over: 5.4% (male 1,042,645/female 1,355,856) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.433% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 20.16 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 5.54 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -0.29 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.024 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.951 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.769 male(s)/female
total population: 0.961 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 20.13 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 23.86 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 16.28 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 72.27 years
male: 68.44 years
female: 76.24 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.51 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.7% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 190,000 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: 3,600 (2003 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%, other 10%.
Languages: Spanish.
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 92.8%
male: 92.9%
female: 92.7% (2004 est.).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $374.4 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 6.8% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $8,600 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12%
industry: 35.2%
services: 52.7% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 20.81 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 22.7%
industry: 18.7%
services: 58.5% (2000 est.).
Population below poverty line: 49.2% (2005).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 7.9%
highest 10%: 34.3% (2004).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 11.1% (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $50.7 billion
expenditures: $52.29 billion; including capital expenditures of $NA (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp.
Industries: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds.
Industrial production growth rate: 5.8% (2006 est.).
Electricity - production: 46.93 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 42.01 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 1.682 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 48 million kWh (2004).
Exports: $24.86 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas, cut flowers.
Exports - partners: US 41.8%, Venezuela 9.9%, Ecuador 6.3% (2005).
Imports: $24.33 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity.
Imports - partners: US 28.5%, Mexico 8.3%, China 7.6%, Brazil 6.5%, Venezuela 5.7% (2005).
Debt - external: $37.21 billion (30 June 2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $NA.
Currency (code): Colombian peso (COP).
Exchange rates: Colombian pesos per US dollar - 2,358.6 (2006), 2,320.75 (2005), 2,628.61 (2004), 2,877.65 (2003), 2,504.24 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
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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