ACOG - Colombia  - IBM

Geography

Location: Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panamaand Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama

Area:
total area: 1,138,910 sq km
land area: 1,038,700 sq km
comparative area: slightly less than three times the size of Montana

Land boundaries: total 7,408 km, Brazil 1,643 km, Ecuador 590 km, Panama 225 km, Peru2,900 km, Venezuela 2,050 km

Coastline: 3,208 km


People

Population: 36,200,251 (July 1995 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 32% (female 5,784,010; male 5,925,600)
15-64 years: 63% (female 11,642,870; male 11,245,235)
65 years and over: 5% (female 888,358; male 714,178)

Population growth rate: 1.7% (1995 est.)

Birth rate: 21.89 births/1,000 population

Death rate: 4.69 deaths/1,000 population

Net migration rate: -0.17 migrant(s)/1,000 population

Infant mortality rate: 26.9 deaths/1,000 live births

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 72.48 years
male: 69.68 years
female: 75.38 years

Total fertility rate: 2.4 children born/woman

Ethnic divisions: mestizo 58%, white 20%, mulatto 14%, black 4%, mixed black-Indian 3%, Indian 1%

Religions: Roman Catholic 95%

Languages: Spanish

Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1985)
total population: 88%
male: 88%
female: 88%


Government

Names:
conventional long form: Republic of Colombia
conventional short form: Colombia

Type: republic; executive branch dominates government structure

Capital: Bogota

Independence: 20 July 1810 (from Spain)

Constitution: 5 July 1991


Economy

National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $172.4 billion

National product real growth rate: 5.7%

National product per capita: $4,850

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 22.6%

Unemployment rate: 7.9%

Electricity:
capacity: 10,220,000 kW
production: 33 billion kWh
consumption per capita: 890 kWh



Olympic Factoid
The volunteer staff of the 1996 Olympic Games totaled 50,152. They worked an estimated 850,000 shifts.