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In the year 2001, the GDP growth stood at 1.56% according to preliminary estimations of
the National Statistics Administrative Department (DANE). In the economic activity, the
sectors that presented outlined annual growths were: transport and communication (3.47%),
construction (3.17%) and commerce (2.05%). Equally other sectors presented annual positive
growths: electricity, gas and water (1.91%), agricultural (1.51%), social services (1,47%)
and financial establishments (0.19%). The construction sector recovered its trend of
deterioration presented in previous years, registering a positive growth rate for the year
2001. The agricultural, trade and financial establishments sectors showed positive growths
for 2001, but were 3.5, 8.4 and 1.0 percentage points lower respectively than the ones
registered in 2000. On the other hand, the sectors that registered negative annual growths
were those of exploitation of mines and quarries and manufacturing industry, -4.04% and
-0.76% respectively, being the industrial sector the one that presented a major
deterioration growing 10.5 percentage points less than the one registered the previous
year.
EXPORTS
DESTINY |
2001
% |
U.S.A. |
42.7 |
ANDEAN GROUP |
22.5 |
EUROPEAN UNION |
13.1 |
JAPAN |
1.3 |
REST |
20.4 |
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US$ Millions FOB
| YEARS |
Total
exports |
Variation
% |
Non
traditional exports |
Variation
% |
Traditional
exports |
Variation
% |
| 1990 |
6,720.6 |
17.7 |
2,664.3 |
24.0 |
4,056.3 |
13.8 |
| 1991 |
7,113.8 |
5.9 |
3,543.2 |
33.0 |
3,570.6 |
-12.0 |
| 1992 |
6,900.0 |
-3.0 |
3,564.6 |
0.6 |
3,335.4 |
-6.6 |
| 1993 |
7,115.9 |
3.1 |
3,984.4 |
11.8 |
3,131.5 |
-6.1 |
| 1994 |
8,478.8 |
19.2 |
4,469.2 |
12.2 |
4,009.6 |
28.0 |
| 1995 |
10,298.3 |
21.5 |
5,238.3 |
17.2 |
5,060.0 |
26.2 |
| 1996 |
10,671.5 |
3.6 |
4,905.5 |
-6.4 |
5,766.0 |
14.0 |
| 1997 |
11,554.7 |
8.3 |
5,463.8 |
11.4 |
6,090.9 |
5.6 |
| 1998 |
10,890.2 |
-5.8 |
5,596.4 |
2.4 |
5,293.8 |
-13.1 |
| 1999
p |
11,575.4 |
6.3 |
5,492.1 |
-1.9 |
6,083.3 |
14.9 |
| 2000
p |
13,121.1 |
13.4 |
6,410.5 |
16.7 |
6,710.6 |
10.3 |
|
2001 p |
12,289.9 |
-6.3 |
7,053.7 |
10.0 |
5,236.2 |
-22.0 |
|
p: Provisional.
Source: DANE. |
