(gross fixed):15.8% of GDP (2004 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $15.33 billion
expenditures: $21.03 billion, including capital expenditures of NA
(2004 est.)
Public debt:
51.8% of GDP (2004 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:
4% (2004 est.)
Electricity - production:
44.87 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source: fossil fuel: 26% hydro: 72.7% nuclear: 0% other: 1.3% (2001)
Electricity - consumption:
41.14 billion kWh (2002)
Electricity - exports:
618 million kWh (2002)
Electricity - imports:
23 million kWh (2002)
Oil - production:
531,100 bbl/day (2004 est.)
Oil - consumption:
252,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)
Oil - exports:
NA
Oil - imports:
NA
Oil - proved reserves:
1.7 billion bbl (2004 est.)
Natural gas - production:
5.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
5.7 billion cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
132 billion cu m (2004)
Current account balance:
$-1.706 billion (2004 est.)
Exports:
$15.5 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Exports - commodities:
petroleum, coffee, coal, apparel, bananas, cut flowers
Exports - partners:
US 42.1%, Venezuela 9.7%, Ecuador 6% (2004)
Imports:
$15.34 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)
Imports - commodities:
industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods,
chemicals, paper products, fuels, electricity
Imports - partners:
US 29.1%, Venezuela 6.5%, China 6.4%, Mexico 6.2%, Brazil 5.8%
(2004)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$11.94 billion (2004 est.)
Debt - external:
$38.7 billion (2004 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:
NA
Currency (code):
Colombian peso (COP)
Currency code:
COP
Exchange rates:
Colombian pesos per US dollar - 2,628.61 (2004), 2,877.65 (2003),
2,504.24 (2002), 2,299.63 (2001), 2,087.9 (2000)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Communications Colombia
Telephones - main lines in use:
8,768,100 (2003)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
6,186,200 (2003)
Telephone system:
general assessment: modern system in many respects
domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system; domestic
satellite system with 41 earth stations; fiber-optic network linking
50 cities
international: country code - 57; satellite earth stations - 6
Intelsat, 1 Inmarsat; 3 fully digitalized international switching
centers; 8 submarine cables
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 454, FM 34, shortwave 27 (1999)
Radios:
21 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
60 (includes seven low-power stations) (1997)
Televisions:
4.59 million (1997)
Internet country code:
.co
Internet hosts:
115,158 (2003)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
18 (2000)
Internet users:
