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 abrupt resignation under political fire in early November of a top Cabinet officer in President Álvaro Uribe’s administration marks the latest in a series of embarrassing political gaffes and miscalculations that threaten to erode Uribe’s previously solid base of support.
Colombian commentators question whether President Álvaro Uribe can pull off the delicate political balance of waging war and peace simultaneously, Robert Taylor finds.
President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva has proven to be a capable executive and is becoming a model for the Latin American democratic left, Sylvie Duchamp writes in an article for Colombia's Revista Cambio.
An escalating conflict between Venezuela and Colombia could have serious diplomatic and economic fallout. World Press Review contributing editor Robert Taylor surveys the regional press.
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