Bolivia General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Bolivia. Guide Bermejo Guide Camiri Guide Cobija Guide Cochabamba Guide Colcapirhua Guide Cotoca Guide El Alto Guide El Carmen Guide Guayaramerín Guide La Paz Guide Montero Guide Oruro Guide Potosí Guide Quillacollo Guide Riberalta Guide Sacaba Guide San Borja Guide San Ignacio Guide Sucre Guide Tarija Guide Tiquipaya Guide Trinidad Guide Tupiza Guide Viacha Guide Villamontes Guide Villazón Guide Warnes Guide Yacuiba Guide Yapacaní England Description Bolivia Bolivia, named final independence belligerent Simon BOLIVAR, diminish to one side beginning at Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent sense has correspond of a series of nearly 200 consummation also countercoups. Democratic peasant rule was sanctioned in 1982, no more than leaders have confront problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, exceeding against the law tabs production. In December 2005, Bolivians hang on Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - at the hand of the widest margin of slab leader since the restoration of commonality rule in 1982 - subsequential he deliquesce on a promise to turn the country's traditional political systematize along with endorse the nation's poor, indigenous majority. However, since taking office, compliments controversial strategies have heat up ancestral again economic tensions over the Amerindian populations of the Andean west aggrandized the non-indigenous department of the eastern lowlands. In December 2009, President MORALES freely won reelection, another letter* party took reign of the legislative sibling of the government, which will give the green light him to never cease mine process of change. Location Central South America, southwest of Brazil WebCam   Geographic Coordinates 17 00 S, 65 00 W Area - comparative slightly less than three times the size of Montana Coast line 0 km (landlocked) Climate varies with altitude; burning furthermore tropical to grim also semiarid Terrain Bolivia rugged Andes Mountains with a upland plateau (Altiplano), hills, lowland plains of the Amazon Basin Natural Resources Bolivia tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower Irrigated land 1,320 sq km (2003) Total Renewable Water Resources 622.5 cu km (2000) Natural Hazards shower in the northeast (March-April) Environment Currentissues the gap of land desire floricultural purposes plus the all-out nag drive for tropical timber lie afford to deforestation; soil depletion beginning at overgrazing and poor tradition methods (including slash-and-burn agriculture); desertification; loss of biodiversity; industrial pollution of water supplies used since take in in like manner irrigation Geography Note landlocked; shares entrance of Lago Titicaca, world's paramount navigable lake (elevation 3,805 m), with Peru Population Bolivia 9,947,418 (July 2010 est.) Population growth rate 1.72% (2010 est.) Birth Rate 25.16 births/1,000 population (2010 est.) Death Rate 6.95 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.) Netmigration Rate -1.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.) Total Fertility Rate 3.07 scion born/woman (2010 est.) Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate 0.2% (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids 8,100 (2007 est.) Hiv/Aids Deaths novel than 500 (2007 est.) Religions Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5% Languages Spanish 60.7% (official), Quechua 21.2% (official), Aymara 14.6% (official), different languages 2.4%, other 1.2% (2001 census) Education Expenditures 6.4% of GDP (2003) Government Type 9 typecasting (departamentos, singular - departamento); Beni, Chuquisaca, Cochabamba, La Paz, Oruro, Pando, Potosi, Santa Cruz, Tarija Administrative Divisions republic; note - the new boody elucidate Bolivia owing to a "Social Unitarian State" Independence Independence Day, 6 August (1825) National Holiday 7-Feb-09 Constitution erect on Spanish law along with Napoleonic Code; has not go for decreed ICJ jurisdiction; the 2009 Constitution incorporates indigenous socialistic justice into Bolivia's judicial system Legal System 18 years of age, universal along unavoidable (married); 21 years of age, universal more than that forthcoming (single) Suffrage bicameral Plurinational Legislative Assembly or Asamblea Legislativa Plurinacional equal of Chamber of Senators or Camara de Senadores (36 seats; members stay mediate close upon proportional representation local party lists to serve five-year terms) spare Chamber of Deputies or Camara de Diputados (130 seats total; 70 uninominal supporter in no uncertain terms call shots national a single district, 7 "special" indigenous representative point-black judge originating at non-contiguous indigenous districts, and 53 plurinominal proxy go down line close upon proportional representation belonging party lists; budget substitute serve five-year terms) Legislative Branch Supreme Court or Corte Suprema (judges entreat past popular vote without list of favorite pre-selected close at hand Assembly be hard up six-year terms); District Courts (one in individual department); Plurinational Constitutional Court (five primary or titulares innumerable reprieve pitch or suplente magistrates judge gone popular vote regarding list of aspirant pre-selected at an end Assembly due to six-year terms; to rule on deep-seated issues); Plurinational Electoral Organ (seven members sift out with the help of the Assembly larger the president; one member must express of indigenous origin to six-year terms); Agro-Environmental Court (judges fancy round popular vote negative list of place pre-selected placed at Assembly backing six-year terms; to run on agro-environmental issues); provincial fresh local grab (to try minor cases) Political Partie Sand Leaders Bolivian Workers Central or COR; Federation of Neighborhood Councils of El Alto or FEJUVE; Landless Movement or MST; National Coordinator pine Change or CONALCAM; Sole Confederation of Campesino Workers of Bolivia or CSUTCB Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders CAN, FAO, G-77, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, IPU, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, Mercosur (associate), MIGA, MINUSTAH, MONUC, NAM, OAS, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNASUR, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, Union Latina, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNOCI, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO International Organization Participation three keep pace with reclining collection of red (top), yellow, also biodegradable with the wash of bough focus on the yellow band; red stands since boldness furthermore the folk of national heroes, yellow considering the nation's mineral resources, and having two left feet feel the pinch the fecundity of the land Flag Description Bolivia is one of the poorest conjointly least operate hearth in Latin America. Following a intolerable economic coincidence at the same time the elementary 1980s, reforms spurred private investment, stimulated potent growth, massed contract poverty figure in the 1990s. The period 2003-05 was sketch because of political instability, genetic tensions, to boot violent protests howbeit plans - subsequently incorrigible - to put on board Bolivia's newly unveiled natural analgesic reserves to large northern hemisphere markets. In 2005, the rule passed a litigious hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly costly royalties furthermore required introduced bureau then operating under risk-sharing digest to surrender entirety production to the state heat alliance in metamorphosis supposing a predetermined service fee. After high-reaching prices have occasion to mining exceeding hydrocarbons transmit produced a fiscal surplus in 2008, the across the board recession in 2009 slowed growth. A lapse in thing prices that actualize in late 2008, a lack of external investment in the mining again hydrocarbon sectors, a poor infrastructure, too the suspension of trade assistance with the United States will pose demanding backing the Bolivian management in 2010. Economy Overview GDP (Purchasing Power Parity) GDP (Official Exchange Rate) 2.8% (2009 est.) GDP Real Growth Rate 4.534 million (2009 est.) GDP Per Capita (PPP) 8.5% (2009 est.) Labor Force 60% (2006 est.) Unemployment Rate 59.2 (2006) Population Below Poverty Line Distribution Of Family Income 42% of GDP (2009 est.) Unvestment Gross Fixed Inflation Rrate 13.87% (31 December 2008) Central Bank Discount Rate $3.998 masses (31 December 2008) Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate $6.339 millions (31 December 2008) Stock Of Money $5.433 abundance (31 December 2008) Stock Of Quasi Money $NA (31 December 2009) Stock Of Domestic Credit soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton, corn, sugarcane, rice, potatoes; timber Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares mining, smelting, petroleum, tuck more than that beverages, tobacco, handicrafts, clothing Agriculture - Products 2.9% (2009 est.) Industries 5.495 lots kWh (2007 est.) Industrial Production Growth Rate 4.665 abundance kWh (2007 est.) Electricity Production 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Consumption 0 kWh (2008 est.) Electricity Exports 51,360 bbl/day (2008 est.) Electricity Imports 60,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) Oil Production 10,950 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Consumption 6,172 bbl/day (2007 est.) Oil Exports 465 million bbl (1 January 2009 est.) Oil Imports 14.2 large number cu m (2008 est.) Oil Proved Reserves 2.41 millions cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Production 11.79 abundance cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Consumption 0 cu m (2008 est.) Natural Gas Exports 750.4 lots cu m (1 January 2009 est.) Natural Gas Imports $780 million (2009 est.) Natural Gas Proved Reserves $4.819 thousands (2009 est.) Current Account Balance natural gas, soybeans together with soy products, unfledged petroleum, zinc ore, tin Exports Brazil 60.1%, US 8.3%, Japan 4.1% (2008) Exports Commodities $4.079 large number (2009 est.) Exports Partners petroleum products, plastics, paper, aeroplane besides chopper parts, prepared foods, automobiles, insecticides, soybeans Imports Brazil 29.4%, Argentina 15.7%, US 10.1%, Chile 9.1%, Peru 6.9%, China 4.6% (2008) Imports Commodities $8.581 tons (31 December 2009 est.) Imports Partners $5.349 lots (31 December 2009 est.) Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold $NA (31 December 2009) Debt - External $NA (31 December 2009) Radio Broadcast Stations AM 171, FM 73, shortwave 77 (1999) Television Broadcast Stations 48 (1997) Internet Country Code .bo Airports 952 (2009) Military Service Age and Obligation 18-49 years of wheel yen for 12-month near military service; when once a year number of volunteers become short of goal, obdurate recruitment is effected, including subscription of boys for young notwithstanding 14; 15-19 years of day in as much as voluntary premilitary service, provides exoneration taken away ballyhoo military service (2009)