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raffickers during the 1994 campaign. The slowdown in the growth of labor-intensive industries such as manufacturing has caused unemployment to rise to 11.5% by the end of 1996 and interfered with President SAMPER'S plans to lower the country's poverty rate, which has remained at about 40% despite the expanding economy. GDP: purchasing power parity - $201.4 billion (1996 est.) GDP - real growth rate: 2.1% (1996 est.) GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $5,400 (1996 est.) GDP - composition by sector: agriculture : 20% industry: 27% services: 53% (1995 est.) Inflation rate - consumer price index: 21.6% (1996) Labor force: total: 12 million (1990) by occupation: services 46%, agriculture 30%, industry 24% (1990) Unemployment rate: 11.5% (yearend 1996) Budget: revenues: $27 billion expenditures: $30 billion including capital expenditures of $NA (1997 est.) Industries: textiles, food processing, oil, clothing and footwear, beverages, chemicals, cement; gold, coal, emeralds Industrial production growth rate: 4.5% (1995 est.) Electricity - capacity: 10,583,700 kW (1995) Electricity - production: 45.361 billion kWh (1995) Electricity - consumption per capita: 963 kWh (1995 est.) Agriculture - products: coffee, cut flowers, bananas, rice, tobacco, corn, sugarcane, cocoa beans, oilseed, vegetables; forest products; shrimp farming Exports: total value: $10.3 billion (f.o.b., 1996) commodities: petroleum, coffee, coal, bananas, fresh cut flowers partners : US 39%, EC 25.7%, Japan 2.9%, Venezuela 8.5% (1992) Imports: total value: $12.4 billion (c.i.f., 1996) commodities: industrial equipment, transportation equipment, consumer goods, chemicals, paper products partners : US 36%, EC 18%, Brazil 4%, Venezuela 6.5%, Japan 8.7% (1992) Debt - external: $16.5 billion (1996 est.) Economic aid: recipient: ODA, $30 million (1993) Currency: 1 Colombian peso (Col$) = 100 centavos Exchange rates: Colombian pesos (Col$) per US$1 - 1,027.87 (January 1997), 1,036.69 (1996), 912.83 (1995), 844.84 (1994), 863.06 (1993), 759.28 (1992) Fiscal year: calendar year @Colombia:Communications Telephones: 1.89 million (1986 est.) Telephone system: modern system in many respects domestic: nationwide microwave radio relay system; domestic satellite system with 11 earth stations international: satellite earth stations - 2 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) Radio broadcast stations: AM 413 (licensed
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