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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In the wake of another student leader being killed due to protest activities against the government, Columbian universities have mobilized against those who would suppress their rights.
“In terms of press freedom, the small Caribbean state of Trinidad and Tobago (12th) is still the region’s top-ranked country. El Salvador (28th) — a still-fragile democracy after years of civil war — came in second, followed, as it was last year, by Costa Rica (41st), Bolivia (45th), Uruguay (46th) and Chile (50th).”
Smart and coordinated strategies have been systematically reducing the homicide rate in two Latin American cities.
Despite how it may look in the news, the factors that actually fuel violence in Colombia are much more related to matters like extreme poverty, unemployment, underdevelopment, lack of opportunities and low rates of school attendance.
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