Bolivia 

Facts
Population: 9,119,152 (July 2007 est.).
Age structure: 0-14 years: 34.3% (male 1,593,509/female 1,532,155)
15-64 years: 61.1% (male 2,730,359/female 2,841,872)
65 years and over: 4.6% (male 187,123/female 234,134) (2007 est.).
Population growth rate: 1.42% (2007 est.).
Birth rate: 22.82 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Death rate: 7.44 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Net migration rate: -1.18 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.961 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.799 male(s)/female
total population: 0.979 male(s)/female (2007 est.).
Infant mortality rate: total: 50.43 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 53.93 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 46.76 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 66.19 years
male: 63.53 years
female: 68.97 years (2007 est.).
Total fertility rate: 2.76 children born/woman (2007 est.).
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.1% (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 4,900 (2003 est.).
HIV/AIDS - deaths: less than 500 (2003 est.).
Nationality: noun: Bolivian(s)
adjective: Bolivian.
Ethnic groups: Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%.
Religions: Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%.
Languages: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official).
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 86.7%
male: 93.1%
female: 80.7% (2001 census).
GDP (purchasing power parity): $27.87 billion (2006 est.).
GDP - real growth rate: 4.5% (2006 est.).
GDP - per capita (PPP): $3,100 (2006 est.).
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 12.8%
industry: 36.1%
services: 51.2% (2006 est.).
Labor force: 4.3 million (2006 est.).
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: NA%
industry: NA%
services: NA%.
Population below poverty line: 64% (2004 est.).
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.3%
highest 10%: 32% (1999).
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 4.3% (2006 est.).
Unemployment rate: 7.8% in urban areas; widespread underemployment (2006 est.).
Budget: revenues: $4.153 billion
expenditures: $3.619 billion; including capital expenditures of $741 million (2006 est.).
Agriculture - products: soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton, corn, sugarcane, rice, potatoes; timber.
Industries: mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages, tobacco, handicrafts, clothing.
Industrial production growth rate: 5.7% (2004 est.).
Electricity - production: 4.472 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - consumption: 4.168 billion kWh (2004).
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).
Electricity - imports: 9 million kWh (2004).
Exports: $3.668 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Exports - commodities: natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin.
Exports - partners: Brazil 44.2%, US 12.5%, Argentina 10.9%, Colombia 7.8%, Peru 4.8% (2005).
Imports: $2.934 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).
Imports - commodities: petroleum products, plastics, paper, aircraft and aircraft parts, prepared foods, automobiles, insecticides, soybeans.
Imports - partners: Brazil 21.9%, Argentina 16.7%, US 13.8%, Chile 6.9%, Peru 6.5%, Japan 6.1%, China 5.8% (2005).
Debt - external: $5.916 billion (2006 est.).
Economic aid - recipient: $221 million (2005 est.).
Currency (code): boliviano (BOB).
Exchange rates: bolivianos per US dollar - 8.0159 (2006), 8.0661 (2005), 7.9363 (2004), 7.6592 (2003), 7.17 (2002).
Fiscal year: calendar year.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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(Conservative), Santa Cruz
http://www.eldeber.com.bo/
(Conservative), La Paz
http://www.eldiario.net/
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(Centrist), La Paz
(Independent), La Paz
http://www.laprensa.com.bo/
(Conservative), La Paz
http://www.la-razon.com/
(Independent), Cochabamba
http://www.lostiempos.com/
(Independent), Cochabamba
http://www.opinion-bo.com
Bolivia in the News
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Recent social unrest has begun to produce an image of a Bolivia turned upside down, with mobilizations coming from none of the usual sources.
The cries for the return of the capital to Sucre, stoked by the right-wing opposition to the Morales government, have raised tensions across Bolivia and revived fears of another "civil war."
For the fourth time during his 14-month government, Bolivian President Evo Morales swore in a new president to run state petroleum company Y.P.F.B.
Land scarcity and difficulties in marketing their products has caused rural Bolivians to depend on growing coca plants as a source of revenue.