The 2008 CIA World Factbook. United States. Central Intelligence Agency
of GDP (2007 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $5.723 billion expenditures: $5.495 billion (2007 est.)
Fiscal year:
calendar year
Public debt:
46.3% of GDP (2007 est.)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
8.7% (2007 est.)
Central bank discount rate:
6.5% (31 December 2007)
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
12.86% (31 December 2007)
Stock of money:
$3.032 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of quasi money:
$4.729 billion (31 December 2007)
Stock of domestic credit:
$4.759 billion (31 December 2007)
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:
1.1% (2007 est.)
Electricity - production:
5.668 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - consumption:
5.092 billion kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - exports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - imports:
0 kWh (2007 est.)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 44.4% hydro: 54% nuclear: 0% other: 1.5% (2001)
Oil - production:
61,790 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - consumption:
31,500 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - exports:
18,500 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - imports:
8,600 bbl/day (2007 est.)
Oil - proved reserves:
465 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.)
Natural gas - production:
14.7 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - consumption:
3 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - exports:
11.7 billion cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - imports:
0 cu m (2007 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves:
750.4 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.)
Current account balance:
$1.796 billion (2007 est.)
Exports:
$4.49 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Exports - commodities:
natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin
Exports - partners:
Brazil 46%, US 9.8%, Japan 7.6%, Argentina 5.8%, South Korea 4.8%,
Peru 4.1% (2007)
Imports:
$3.249 billion f.o.b. (2007 est.)
Imports - commodities:
petroleum products, plastics, paper, aircraft and aircraft parts, prepared foods, automobiles, insecticides, soybeans
Imports - partners:
Brazil 29.9%, Argentina 16.2%, Chile 10.5%, US 9.8%, Peru 8.1% (2007)
Economic aid - recipient:
$582.9 million (2005 est.)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$5.318 billion (31 October 2007)
Debt - external:
$4.495 billion (31 December 2007 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
$6.88 billion (31 December 2004)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
$NA
Market value of publicly traded shares:
$2.2 billion (2005)
Currency (code):
boliviano (BOB)
Currency code:
BOB
Exchange rates:
bolivianos (BOB) per US dollar - 7.8616 (2007), 8.0159 (2006), 8.0661 (2005), 7.9363 (2004), 7.6592 (2003)
Communications
Bolivia
Telephones - main lines in use:
678,200 (2007)
Telephones - mobile cellular:
3.254 million (2007)
Telephone system:
general assessment: privatization begun in 1995; reliability has steadily improved; new subscribers face bureaucratic difficulties; most telephones are concentrated in La Paz and other cities; mobile-cellular telephone use expanding rapidly; fixed-line teledensity of 7 per 100 persons; mobile-cellular telephone density of 35 per 100 persons domestic: primary trunk system, which is being expanded, employs digital microwave radio relay; some areas are served by fiber-optic cable; mobile cellular systems are being expanded international: country code - 591; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean) (2007)
Radio broadcast stations:
AM 171, FM 73, shortwave 77 (1999)
Radios:
5.25 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations:
48 (1997)
Televisions:
900,000 (1997)
Internet country code:
.bo
Internet hosts:
68,428 (2008)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs):
9 (2000)
Internet users:
1 million (2007)
Transportation
Bolivia
Airports:
1,061 (2007)
Airports - with paved runways:
total: 16 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 3 (2007)
Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 1,045 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 4 1,524 to 2,437 m: 57 914 to 1,523 m: 183 under 914 m: 800 (2007)
Pipelines: