| Economy | Bolivia |
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Economy - overview:
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Bolivia is one of the poorest and least developed countries in Latin America. Following a disastrous economic crisis during the early 1980s, reforms spurred private investment, stimulated economic growth, and cut poverty rates in the 1990s. The period 2003-05 was characterized by political instability, racial tensions, and violent protests against plans - subsequently abandoned - to export Bolivia's newly discovered natural gas reserves to large northern hemisphere markets. In 2005, the government passed a controversial hydrocarbons law that imposed significantly higher royalties and required foreign firms then operating under risk-sharing contracts to surrender all production to the state energy company. In early 2008, higher earnings for mining and hydrocarbons exports pushed the current account surplus to 9.4% of GDP and the government's higher tax take produced a fiscal surplus after years of large deficits. Private investment as a share of GDP, however, remains among the lowest in Latin America, and inflation remained at double-digit levels in 2008. The decline in commodity prices in late 2008, the lack of foreign investment in the mining and hydrocarbon sectors, and the suspension of trade benefits with the United States will pose challenges for the Bolivian economy in 2009. |
GDP (purchasing power parity):
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$43.08 billion (2008 est.)
$40.8 billion (2007)
$39 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars |
GDP - per capita (PPP):
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$4,500 (2008 est.)
$4,300 (2007 est.)
$4,200 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars |
GDP (official exchange rate):
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$18.94 billion (2008 est.) |
GDP - real growth rate:
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5.6% (2008 est.)
4.6% (2007 est.)
4.8% (2006 est.) |
GDP - composition by sector:
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agriculture: 11.3%
industry: 36.9%
services: 51.8% (2008 est.) |
Investment (gross fixed):
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16.7% of GDP (2008 est.) |
Population below poverty line:
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60% (2006 est.) |
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
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lowest 10%: 0.3%
highest 10%: 47.2% (2002) |
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
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59.2 (2006) |
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
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11.5% (2008 est.) |
Central bank discount rate:
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6.5% (31 December 2007) |
Commercial bank prime lending rate:
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12.86% (31 December 2007) |
Stock of money:
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$3.032 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of money - per capita:
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311 USD per capita |
Stock of quasi money:
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$4.729 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of quasi money - per capita:
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484 USD per capita |
Stock of domestic credit:
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$4.759 billion (31 December 2007) |
Stock of domestic credit - per capita:
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487 USD per capita |
Labor force:
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4.457 million (2008 est.) |
Labor force participation rate:
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45.59 % of population |
Labor force - by occupation:
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agriculture: 40%
industry: 17%
services: 43% (2006 est.) |
Unemployment rate:
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7.5% in urban areas; widespread underemployment (2008 est.) |
Budget:
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revenues: $8.044 billion
expenditures: $7.341 billion (2008 est.) |
Budget revenues per capita:
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823 USD per capita |
Public debt:
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52.7% of GDP (2008 est.) |
Industries:
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mining, smelting, petroleum, food and beverages, tobacco, handicrafts, clothing |
Industrial production growth rate:
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7.4% (2008 est.) |
Electricity - production:
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5.668 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
Electricity - production per capita:
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580 kWh per capita |
Electricity - consumption:
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5.092 billion kWh (2007 est.) |
Electricity - consumption - per capita:
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521 kWh per capita |
Electricity - exports:
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0 kWh (2007 est.) |
Electricity - imports:
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0 kWh (2007 est.) |
Oil - production:
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61,790 bbl/day (2007 est.) |
Oil - production per capita:
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6,322 bbl/day per capita |
Oil - consumption:
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31,500 bbl/day (2007 est.) |
Oil - consumption - per capita:
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1.18 bbl/year per capita |
Oil - exports:
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18,500 bbl/day (2007 est.) |
Oil - imports:
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8,600 bbl/day (2007 est.) |
Oil - proved reserves:
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465 million bbl (1 January 2008 est.) |
Natural gas - production:
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14.7 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - production per capita:
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1,504 cu m per capita |
Natural gas - consumption:
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3 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - consumption - per capita:
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307 cu m per capita |
Natural gas - exports:
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11.7 billion cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - imports:
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0 cu m (2007 est.) |
Natural gas - proved reserves:
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750.4 billion cu m (1 January 2008 est.) |
Agriculture - products:
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soybeans, coffee, coca, cotton, corn, sugarcane, rice, potatoes; timber |
Current account balance:
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$1.789 billion (2008 est.) |
Current account balance - per capita:
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184 USD per capita |
Exports:
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$6.384 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.) |
Exports per capita:
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654 USD per capita |
Exports - commodities:
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natural gas, soybeans and soy products, crude petroleum, zinc ore, tin |
Exports - partners:
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Brazil 46%, US 9.8%, Japan 7.6%, Argentina 5.8%, South Korea 4.8%, Peru 4.1% (2007) |
Imports:
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$4.782 billion f.o.b. (2008 est.) |
Imports per capita:
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490 USD per capita |
Imports - commodities:
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petroleum products, plastics, paper, aircraft and aircraft parts, prepared foods, automobiles, insecticides, soybeans |
Imports - partners:
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Brazil 29.9%, Argentina 16.2%, Chile 10.5%, US 9.8%, Peru 8.1% (2007) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
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$7.864 billion (31 December 2008 est.) |
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold - per capita:
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805 USD per capita |
Debt - external:
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$4.603 billion (31 December 2008 est.) |
Debt - external - per capita:
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471 USD per capita |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home:
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$6.88 billion (31 December 2004) |
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home - per capita:
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704 USD per capita |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad:
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$NA |
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad - per capita:
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void |
Market value of publicly traded shares:
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$2.263 billion (31 December 2007) |
Market value of publicly traded shares - per capita:
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232 USD per capita |
Economic aid - donor:
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void |
Economic aid - recipient:
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$582.9 million (2005 est.) |
Economic aid - recipient per capita:
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60 USD per capita |
Currency (code):
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boliviano (BOB) |
Exchange rates:
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bolivianos (BOB) per US dollar - 7.253 (2008 est.), 7.8616 (2007), 8.0159 (2006), 8.0661 (2005), 7.9363 (2004) |
Fiscal year:
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calendar year |
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