y sector:
agriculture: 13.4%
industry: 32.1%
services: 54.5% (2004 est.)

Labor force:
20.7 million (2004 est.)

Labor force - by occupation:
agriculture 30%, industry 24%, services 46% (1990)

Unemployment rate:
13.6% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
55% (2001)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 1%
highest 10%: 44% (1999)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
57.1 (1996)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
5.9% (2004 est.)

Investment (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: