amily income - Gini index:
49.8 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.1% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
20.3% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $25.5 billion
expenditures: $25.18 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.8
billion for general government, but excluding private enterprises
(2006 est.)

Public debt:
33.8% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
asparagus, coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, potatoes, corn,
plantains, grapes, oranges, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products;
fish, guinea pigs

Industries:
mining and refining of minerals; steel, metal fabrication;
petroleum extraction and refining, natural gas; fishing and fish
processing, textiles, clothing, food processing

Industrial production growth rate:
7% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
23.99 billion kWh (2004 est.)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 14.5%
hydro: 84.7%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.8% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
22.31 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
120,000 bbl/day (2005 est.)

Oil - consumption:
156,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
49,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day

Oil - proved reserves:
370 million bbl (2006 est.)

Natural gas - production:
860 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
860 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
246.8 billion cu m (1 January 2005 est.)

Current account balance:
$1.515 billion (2006 est.)

Exports:
$22.69 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
copper, gold, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products, coffee,
potatoes, asparagus, textiles, guinea pigs

Exports - partners:
US 31.1%, China 10.8%, Chile 6.6%, Canada 5.9%, Switzerland 4.6%
(2005)

Imports:
$15.38 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
petroleum and petroleum products, plastics, machinery, vehicles,
iron and steel, wheat, paper

Imports - partners:
US 18.2%, China 8.5%, Brazil 8%, Ecuador 7.4%, Colombia 6.1%,
Argentina 5.1%, Chile 5.1%, Venezuela 4.1% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$17.04 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$27.93 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - rec