The 1997 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency

- composition by sector: agriculture: NA% industry : NA% services: NA%

      Inflation rate - consumer price index: NA%

      Labor force: NA note: the Cocos Islands Cooperative Society Ltd. employs construction workers, stevedores, and lighterage worker operations; tourism employs others

      Budget: revenues: $NA expenditures : $NA, including capital expenditures of $NA

      Industries: copra products and tourism

      Industrial production growth rate: NA%

      Electricity - capacity: NA kW

      Electricity - production: NA kWh

      Electricity - consumption per capita: NA kWh

      Agriculture - products: vegetables, bananas, pawpaws, coconuts

      Exports: $NA commodities: copra partners: Australia

      Imports: $NA commodities: foodstuffs partners: Australia

      Debt - external: $NA

      Economic aid: none

      Currency: 1 Australian dollar ($A) = 100 cents

      Exchange rates: Australian dollars ($A) per US$1 - 1.2835 (January 1997), 1.2773 (1996), 1.3486 (1995), 1.3667 (1994), 1.4704 (1993), 1.3600 (1992)

      Fiscal year: 1 July - 30 June

      @Cocos (Keeling) Islands:Communications

      Telephones: NA

      Telephone system: domestic: NA international: telephone, telex, and facsimile communications with Australia and elsewhere via satellite; 1 satellite earth station of NA type

      Radio broadcast stations: AM 1, FM 0, shortwave 0

      Radios: 300 (1992 est.)

      Television broadcast stations: 0 note: intermittent television service via satellite

      Televisions: NA

      @Cocos (Keeling) Islands:Transportation

      Railways: 0 km

      Highways: total : NA km paved: NA km unpaved : NA km

      Ports and harbors: none; lagoon anchorage only

      Merchant marine: none

      Airports: 1

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 1 1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (1996 est.)

      Military

      Military - note: defense is the responsibility of Australia

      Transnational Issues

      Disputes - international: none ______________________________________________________________________

      COLOMBIA

      @Colombia:Geography

      Location: Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between

       Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between

       Ecuador and Panama

      Geographic coordinates: 4 00 N, 72 00 W

      Map references: South America

      Area: total : 1,138,910 sq km land: 1,038,700 sq km water: 100,210 sq km note: includes Isla de Malpelo, Roncador Cay, Serrana Bank, and Serranilla Bank

      Area - comparative: slightly less than three times the size of Montana

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

      Coastline: 3,208 km (Caribbean Sea 1,760 km, North Pacific Ocean 1,448 km)

      Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm

      Climate: tropical along coast and eastern plains; cooler in highlands

      Terrain: flat coastal lowlands, central highlands, high Andes

       Mountains, eastern lowland plains

      Elevation extremes: lowest point: Pacific Ocean 0 m highest point: Nevado del Huila 5,750 m

      Natural resources: petroleum, natural gas, coal, iron ore, nickel, gold, copper, emeralds

      Land use: arable land: 4% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures : 39% forests and woodland: 48% other: 8% (1993 est.)

      Irrigated land: 5,300 sq km (1993 est.)

      Natural hazards: highlands subject to volcanic eruptions; occasional earthquakes; periodic droughts

      Environment - current issues: deforestation; soil damage from overuse of pesticides; air pollution, especially in Bogota, from vehicle emissions

      Environment - international agreements: party to : Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94 signed, but not ratified: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Desertification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping

      Geography - note: only South American country with coastlines on both

       North Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea

      @Colombia:People

      Population: 37,418,290 (July 1997 est.)

      Age structure: 0–14 years : 31% (male 5,959,141; female 5,816,751) 15–64 years: 64% (male 11,756,893; female 12,146,103) 65 years and over: 5% (male 769,724; female 969,678) (July 1997 est.)

      Population growth rate: 1.61% (1997 est.)

      Birth rate: 20.78 births/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Death rate: 4.62 deaths/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Net migration rate: −0.1 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1997 est.)

      Sex ratio: at birth: 1.03 male(s)/female under 15 years : 1.02 male(s)/female 15–64 years: 0.97 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.79 male(s)/female total population: 0.98 male(s)/female (1997 est.)

      Infant mortality rate: 24.7 deaths/1,000 live births (1997 est.)

      Life expectancy at birth: total population: 73.14 years male: 70.28 years female : 76.09 years (1997 est.)

      Total fertility rate: 2.31 children born/woman (1997 est.)

      Nationality: noun: Colombian(s) adjective: Colombian

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

      Religions: Roman Catholic 95%

      Languages: Spanish

      Literacy: definition : age 15 and over can read and write total population: 91.3% male: 91.2% female: 91.4% (1995 est.)

      @Colombia:Government

      Country name: conventional long form: Republic of Colombia conventional short form: Colombia local long form: Republica de Colombia local short form : Colombia

      Data code: CO

      Government type: republic; executive branch dominates government structure

      National capital: Bogota

      Administrative divisions: 32 departments (departamentos, singular -

       departamento) and 1 capital district* (distrito capital); Amazonas,

       Antioquia, Arauca, Atlantico, Bolivar, Boyaca, Caldas, Caqueta,

       Casanare, Cauca, Cesar, Choco, Cordoba, Cundinamarca, Guainia,

       Guaviare, Huila, La Guajira, Magdalena, Meta, Narino, Norte de

       Santander, Putumayo, Quindio, Risaralda, San Andres y Providencia,