Colombia — Market Overview
🇨🇴 Colombia
Colombia trades as a market where commodity exposure, bank earnings, and domestic policy credibility interact directly, so shifts in oil, rates, and the reform backdrop can move valuations quickly. The cleanest read usually comes from oil and external balances, local rate policy, and whether banks and domestic consumers can stay resilient through political noise.
Regional map
Key facts
Colombia at a glance
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Source: DANE Colombia,
Country dashboard
Why this market matters
This version combines a stylized country map with a switchable macro explorer built from official published history, using OECD primary datasets where available and World Bank annual series where coverage is otherwise incomplete.
Macro explorer
Switch variables, keep the country context
These country charts now use official OECD quarterly and monthly history where the feed is actually published, with government debt added from the World Bank when a stable public series exists. Variables without dependable republishable coverage are left out instead of being interpolated, so each page shows fewer lines only when the source coverage is genuinely thinner.
GDP
Nominal GDP shown as bars.
Available variables
Trade and external position
Exports, services, and external balance
Instead of a generic macro-card wall, this section focuses on how the country earns demand from abroad, where its trade edge sits, and how the external balance is evolving.
The full export figure, combining goods and services in one line. It is the cleanest way to read how much external demand Colombia is capturing across both physical products and higher-value intangible flows.
This is the merchandise side of exports: industrial supplies, capital goods, autos, food, and other physical products. It matters because it reflects the health of manufacturing, energy, aerospace, and the broader global industrial cycle.
This is the intangible side: finance, travel, licensing, business services, and IP-linked flows. It matters because it shows where Colombia is strongest in higher-margin, knowledge-intensive, and branded service activities.
Trade partners
Where the country trades
Commodity lens
Raw-material exposure
Trade in goods and services equaled 37.0% of GDP in 2024. This is a quick read on how externally exposed the economy is.
Services represented 26.8% of total exports in the latest reading, which helps show whether the export mix leans more toward intangibles or merchandise.
Manufactures accounted for 21.4% of merchandise exports in 2024.
Fuel exports accounted for 45.3% of merchandise exports in 2024, useful for reading commodity exposure.
Food exports accounted for 18.1% of merchandise exports in 2024, adding context on agricultural exposure.
Source: World Bank API: totalExports,
What to watch
Reading framework
oil and exports
Colombia should first be read through oil and exports. When this regime shifts, local multiples and sector leadership usually shift with it.
rate policy
The cleanest read usually comes from oil and external balances, local rate policy, and whether banks and domestic consumers can stay resilient through political noise. That makes rate policy one of the most important signals for revising the country narrative.
bank and consumer resilience
The final layer is bank and consumer resilience, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable earnings support for the COLCAP.
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GDP
What This Signals
This view isolates nominal GDP, which is useful for seeing the economy's absolute scale instead of a growth rate or ratio.