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Colombia trades as a market where commodity exposure, bank profits, 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.
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Use the key figures to see the country’s size, currency and current economic backdrop.
Pick one variable at a time and see how it has changed over time.
The final cards explain the few forces that can move companies and the local market.
Key facts
Capital
Currency
Primary exchange
Central bank
Region
Time zone
Source: DANE Colombia,
Country dashboard
A resource-and-financials market where oil, rates, politics, and domestic demand all feed into sentiment.
Macro explorer
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Nominal GDP in current local currency from the World Bank. This is the size of the economy in reported currency terms, not a growth rate.
Available variables
Source: DANE Colombia,
Trade and external position
The latest available data show exports of $67.4B and imports of $87.6B, leaving an external balance of −$20.2B. Services account for 26.8% of total exports.
This is the broadest external-demand read for Colombia, because it combines merchandise shipments with cross-border services such as travel, transport, finance, and business services.
This is the merchandise side of the export machine for Colombia, useful for judging industrial, energy, and manufacturing exposure in the trade mix.
This shows how much Colombia monetizes travel, logistics, finance, software, licensing, and other non-merchandise external flows.
Trade partners
Commodity lens
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
Colombia should first be read through oil and exports. When this regime shifts, local how highly shares are valued and sector leadership usually shift with it.
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.
The final layer is bank and consumer resilience, because it determines whether the macro backdrop turns into sustainable profits support for the COLCAP.
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GDP
What This Signals
Nominal GDP is shown here in reported currency terms, so each point is the size of the economy itself rather than the growth rate of that economy. It is useful for judging the economy's absolute scale, which matters when comparing fiscal capacity, debt servicing room, and how meaningful a given policy package really is. Versus a year ago, the series is higher by 7.7%, which points to an improving or firmer backdrop on this measure. Across the displayed window, the broader trend is still upward.