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.
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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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Soliz Rada believes that "the grand idea of the U.S. is to guarantee its global domination in the 21st century," and to do this it must "advance on a few issues that are a big worry for the U.S."
Chilean President Ricardo Lagos noted that countries in the region have yet to advance fully on integrating economic policies, while Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez used the occasion to urge members to pull back from United States-style free market policies.
Landlocked Bolivia’s long-frustrated ambition to restore its access to the Pacific Ocean has moved from the dusty annals of its humiliating defeat in the 1879 War of the Pacific to the center stage of hemispheric diplomacy. Robert Taylor reviews the press from Bolivia and Chile.
In an article for Bogotá's Revista Cambio, María Elvira Samper analyzes how Bolivia's involvement with the IMF and its privatization of state industries led to the country's recent troubles.
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