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Economy Colombia
Flag of Colombia Colombia
Population: 42,310,775 (July 2004 est.)
Capital: Bogota
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Tabular Data - The Colombian Economy

GDP : purchasing power parity - $263.2 billion (2003 est.)
GDP - Real Growth Rate : 3.7% (2003 est.)
GDP - Per Capita : purchasing power parity - $6,300 (2003 est.)
GDP - Composition By Sector : agriculture: 13.7%
industry: 32.1%
services: 54.2% (2003 est.)
Population Below Poverty Line : 55% (2001)
Household Income or Consumption by Percentage : lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 44% (1999)
Inflation Rate (Consumer Prices) : 7.1% (2003 est.)
Labor Force : 20.34 million (2003 est.)
Labor Force - By Occupation : agriculture 30%, industry 24%, services 46% (1990)
Budget : revenues: $24 billion
expenditures: $25.6 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (2001 est.)
Industries : textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds
Industrial Production Growth Rate : 3.5% (2003 est.)
Electricity - Production : 42.99 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - Production by Source : fossil fuel: 26%
hydro: 72.7%
nuclear: 0%
other: 1.3% (2001)
Electricity - Consumption : 39.81 billion kWh (2001)
Electricity - Exports : 210 million kWh (2001)
Electricity - Imports : 40 million kWh (2001)
Agriculture - Products : coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp
Exports : $12.96 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Exports - Commodities : petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas, cut flowers
Exports - Partners : US 47.1%, Ecuador 6%, Venezuela 5.3% (2003 est.)
Imports : $13.06 billion f.o.b. (2003 est.)
Imports - Commodities : industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity
Imports - Partners : US 29.6%, Brazil 5.5%, Mexico 5.4%, Venezuela 5.2%, China 5%, Japan 4.6%, Germany 4.4% (2003 est.)
Debt - External : $38.26 billion (2003 est.)
Currency : Colombian peso (COP)
Currency Code : COP
Exchange Rates : Colombian pesos per US dollar - 2,877.65 (2003), 2,504.24 (2002), 2,299.63 (2001), 2,087.9 (2000), 1,756.23 (1999)
Fiscal Year : Calendar Year

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Data Source: Central Intelligence Agency 2004 World Factbook