At one time in 1985, Bolivia experienced an inflation rate of more than 20, 000 percent.

Fiscal and monetary reform reduced the inflation rate to single digits by the 1990s, and in 2004 Bolivia experienced a manageable 4. 9 percent rate of inflation.

Countries that have experienced a fertility decline of 25-40 % include: Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Bolivia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Tajikistan, Jordan, Qatar, Albania, United Arab Emirates, Zimbabwe, and Botswana.

There was danger in their enterprise ; Peru and Bolivia were on the verge of war, and Markham's party soon experienced the hostility of Peruvian interests anxious to protect their control over the trade.

In South America, countries such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia lead on plastic surgery medical skills relying on their experienced plastic surgeons.

It is owned and paid for by several countries: Venezuela ( which provides 54 % of the network's budget ), Argentina ( 15 %), Cuba ( 14 %), Uruguay ( 7 %), Bolivia ( 5 %) and Nicaragua ( 5 %).

Bolivia reached a peak trade deficit of US $ 888 million in 1998 before increased hydrocarbon exports radically altered the situation.

In modern times, the largest Andean cities are Bogota, Colombia, with a population of about eight million, La Paz, Bolivia, and Quito, Ecuador.

However, these claims were given up in about 1870 during the War of the Pacific between Chile, the allied Bolivia and Peru, in a diplomatic deal to keep Argentina out of the war.

On the Western side of the Altiplano divide, about an hour to the West of the La Paz, is the site of the tallest mountain in Bolivia and 9th tallest mountain in the Andes, the Sajama Volcano.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Bolivia, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

Bolivia was granted about of port facilities on a 99-year lease at the Port of Ilo on Peru's southern Pacific coast.

One theory about the name is that many boxes being shipped from the area said " Bolivia ", referring to the country in South America, and the people liked that name.

With estimated, Bolivia holds about 43 % of the world's lithium reserves ; most of those are located in the Salar de Uyuni.

Oruro is a city in Bolivia with a population of 235, 393 ( 2010 calculation ), located about equidistant between La Paz and Sucre at approximately 3710 meters above sea level.

Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Chile were all involved in a twelve-year war, which brought about a train of baneful stages of chaos, among all countries involved.

The Aymara or Aimara ( ) are an indigenous ethnic group in the Andes and Altiplano regions of South America ; about 2 million live in Bolivia, Peru and Chile.

The only known fossils are from the Miocene about 7 million years ago of Bolivia.

: This article is about a historical region now in Bolivia.

Supporters of the law, however, believed that the requirement that the private capital be directly invested in the new joint ventures significantly reduced the room for corruption and would bring about the development of these " strategic " resources in the absence of any possibility of Bolivia alone funding their development, that the fiscal obligations of the new companies would greatly increase the funds available for human and social, as well as infrastructure development, and that the dividend payouts for the Bolivian people went to create a universal, annual old-age benefit, the BONOSOL, which though small would have an immense impact on the rural elderly, the most marginalized sector of Bolivia's indigenous population

* Bolivia Information Forum Information and background about Evo Morales and MAS party

Around 20, 000 tons of Brazil nuts are harvested each year, of which Bolivia accounts for about 50 %, Brazil 40 % and Peru 10 % ( 2000 estimates ).

* Many documentaries made for television, including the series " Bolivia Siglo XX ", a contemporary history of Bolivia consisting of 36 documentaries, each about an hour long, made in conjunction with Mario Espinoza and produced by Ximena Valdivia.

* Evo Morales, President of Bolivia – Interviewed on September 22, 2006 ; talked about his recent speech at the United Nations in New York where he held up a coca leaf and argued for international drug law reform as well as talked about the nationalization of Bolivia's energy reserves among other topics.

The controversy regarding the decrees came about when the weapons sold did not go to Panama, Bolivia, and Venezuela as had been accorded, but instead the weapons ended up in Croatia and Ecuador at times when both of these nations were involved in wars and prohibited from receiving international military aid.

Most portraits about the creation or first uses of the flag show the modern design of it, but the original one ( kept at a museum in Sucre, Bolivia ) was instead a vertical triband with two white bands and a light blue one in the middle.

Currently about 15, 000 active members are in the United States and Canada and additional members have active chapters in Italy, Romania, Peru, the Philippines, Australia, Aruba, Bolivia, Serbia, Japan, and Brazil.

After the independence of Chile ( 1818 ) and Bolivia ( 1825 ) none of the following governments of both countries cared about defining its borders.

Western Wireless subsidiary Western Wireless International Corporation held mobile licenses in several countries outside the United States including: Austria ( Tele. Ring ), Ireland ( Meteor Mobile Communications ), Slovenia ( Vega ), Haiti ( ComCel ), Bolivia ( NuevaTel PCS ), Iceland ( TAL ), Croatia ( vipnet ), Georgia, Ghana and Cote d ' Ivoire covering about 1. 8 million subscribers in 2005.

A military training agreement with Asunción, giving immunity to US soldiers, caused some concern after media reports initially reported that a base housing 20, 000 US soldiers was being built at Mariscal Estigarribia within 200 km of Argentina and Bolivia, and 300 km of Brazil, near an airport which could receive large planes ( B-52, C-130 Hercules, etc.

Nevertheless, the country's gross domestic product ( GDP ) in 1986 was approximately US $ 3. 4 billion, or roughly US $ 1, 000 per capita, ranking Paraguay only ahead of Bolivia among the Spanish-speaking countries of South America.

submarine cable systems provide connectivity to the Caribbean, Central and South America, and US ; satellite earth stations-1 Intelsat ( Atlantic Ocean ) and 1 PanAmSat ; participating with Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia in the construction of an international fiber-optic network

Bolivia conducted more than US $ 1 billion in trade with Mercosur countries in 2003.

Bolivia had an estimated trade surplus of more than US $ 1. 6 billion in 2011.

Bolivia had a large negative balance of payments for 2002 ⎯ US $ 317 million.

Bolivia ’ s external debt totaled an estimated US $ 5. 7 billion in 2004.

In 1991 the United States forgave more than US $ 350 million owed by Bolivia to the U. S. Agency for International Development and the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

Bolivia has unsuccessfully been seeking his extradition from the US to stand trial for the events of 2003.

However, three days before the elections the US ambassador publicly warned the Bolivian people against electing " those who want Bolivia to again be an exporter of cocaine " as it would put in jeopardy US aid to Bolivia.

On November 11, 2008, Bolivia formally served the US government with a request to extradite Sánchez de Lozada back to Bolivia.

In 2006, Bolivia, as a result of alternative development programs, exported US $ 28 million of Banana, US $ 1. 9 million of pineapple, and US $ 7. 0 million of palm heart.

In November 2003, the US Office of National Drug Control Policy ( ONDCP ) claimed the area planted with coca in Peru and Bolivia combined fell by 35 km² in the year up to June, which would suggest that a crop eradication program in neighboring Colombia was not driving production over the borders.

The price which Bolivia is paid for its natural gas is roughly US $ 3. 25 to Brazil and $ US3. 18 to Argentina.

On March 29, 1995, during congressional hearings on the US War on Drugs, Burton proclaimed that the US military " should place an aircraft carrier off the coast of Bolivia and crop dust the coca fields.