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: