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      Exports:

       $1.3 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Exports - commodities:

       soybeans, natural gas, zinc, gold, wood (2000)

      Exports - partners:

       Brazil 24.3%, Switzerland 15.7%, US 14.1%, Venezuela 12.8%,

       Colombia 10.2%, Peru 5.4% (2002)

      Imports:

       $1.6 billion f.o.b. (2002 est.)

      Imports - commodities:

       capital goods, raw materials and semi-manufactures, chemicals,

       petroleum, food

      Imports - partners:

       Brazil 22%, Argentina 17.4%, US 15.6%, Chile 7%, Japan 5.5%, Peru

       5.4%, China 4.8% (2002)

      Debt - external:

       $5.9 billion (2002 est.)

      Economic aid - recipient:

       $588 million (1997)

      Currency:

       boliviano (BOB)

      Currency code:

       BOB

      Exchange rates:

       bolivianos per US dollar - 7.17 (2002), 6.61 (2001), 6.18 (2000),

       5.81 (1999), 5.51 (1998)

      Fiscal year:

       calendar year

      Communications Bolivia

      Telephones - main lines in use:

       327,600 (1996)

      Telephones - mobile cellular:

       116,000 (1997)

      Telephone system:

       general assessment: new subscribers face bureaucratic difficulties;

       most telephones are concentrated in La Paz and other cities; mobile

       cellular telephone use expanding rapidly

       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: satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (Atlantic Ocean)

      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 Service Providers (ISPs):

       9 (2000)

      Internet users:

       78,000 (2000)

      Transportation Bolivia

      Railways: total: 3,519 km narrow gauge: 3,519 km 1.000-m gauge (2002)

      Highways:

       total: 53,790 km

       paved: 3,496 km (including 13 km of expressways)

       unpaved: 50,294 km (2000 est.)

      Waterways:

       10,000 km (commercially navigable)

      Pipelines:

       gas 4,860 km; liquid petroleum gas 47 km; oil 2,460 km; refined

       products 1,589 km; unknown (oil/water) 247 km (2003)

      Ports and harbors:

       Puerto Aguirre (on the Paraguay/Parana waterway, at the

       Bolivia/Brazil border); also, Bolivia has free port privileges in

       maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay

      Merchant marine:

       total: 53 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 347,535 GRT/591,113 DWT

       ships by type: bulk 2, cargo 25, chemical tanker 4, container 4,

       livestock carrier 1, petroleum tanker 12, roll on/roll off 1,

       short-sea passenger 3, specialized tanker 1

       note: includes some foreign-owned ships registered here as a flag of

       Belize 2, China 2, Cuba 1, Cyprus 1, Egypt 1, Honduras 1, Latvia 2,

       Liberia 2, Panama 1, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1, Saudi

       Arabia 1, Singapore 1, South Korea 3, Switzerland 1, Ukraine 1, UAE

       5, US 1 (2002 est.)

      Airports:

       1,081 (2002)

      Airports - with paved runways: total: 12 over 3,047 m: 4 2,438 to 3,047 m: 2 1,524 to 2,437 m: 5 914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2002)

      Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 1,069 over 3,047 m: 1 2,438 to 3,047 m: 3 1,524 to 2,437 m: 64 914 to 1,523 m: 225 under 914 m: 776 (2002)

      Military Bolivia

      Military branches:

       Army (Ejercito Boliviano), Navy (Fuerza Naval, includes Marines),

       Air Force (Fuerza Aerea Boliviana), National Police Force (Policia

       Nacional de Bolivia)

      Military manpower - military age:

       19 years of age (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - availability:

       males age 15–49: 2,118,908 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - fit for military service:

       males age 15–49: 1,380,883 (2003 est.)

      Military manpower - reaching military age annually:

       males: 96,003 (2003 est.)

      Military expenditures - dollar figure:

       $147 million (FY99)

      Military expenditures - percent of GDP:

       1.8% (FY99)

      Transnational Issues Bolivia

      Disputes - international:

       continues to press Chile and Peru to restore the Atacama corridor

       ceded to Chile in 1884; Chile demands water rights to Bolivia's Rio

       Lauca and Silala Spring

      Illicit drugs:

       world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia and Peru)

       with an estimated 24,400 hectares under cultivation in June 2002, a

       23% increase from June 2001; intermediate coca products and cocaine

       exported to or through Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, and Chile to the

       US and other international drug markets; eradication and alternative

       crop programs under the SANCHEZ DE LOZADA administration have been

       unable to keep pace with farmers' attempts to increase cultivation

       after significant reductions in 1998 and 1999; money-laundering

       activity related to narcotics trade, especially along the borders

       with Brazil and Paraguay

      This page was last updated on 18 December, 2003

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