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Fact About The Country Bolivia
Bolivia- a landlocked country located in Southern America, southwest of Brazil follows Spanish as an official language. Bolivia is equal in size to California and Texas combined. |
The Population of the country in 2008 was 9,247,816 with the average age being 21.8 years and almost half of it lives on the plateau, which contains Oruro, Potosí, and La Paz. Bolivia is rich in human diversity with more than 30 ethnic groups with the rich customs, of the Aymara, Quechua and Guarani cultures. After the Spanish defeat in the Incas during 16th century, Bolivia's predominantly Indian population was reduced to slavery. The country got its independence in 1825 and the famous liberator, Simón Bolívar gives his name to the country. Bolivia lost territory to three neighboring nations; Chile, Brazil and Paraguay in 1938 Bolivian Indian activist of the Movement toward Socialism (MAS) won presidential election in 2005 and have become first indigenous president to work but is being labelled as an “enemy of Peru”.
The Literacy rate in Bolivia is 87% (2006) but economic conditions points it to an under-developed country with a GDP of $39.44 billion in 2007 and a Real growth rate of 4.2% with an inflation rate of 8.7%. The country is predominantly based on agriculture and has its own natural resources like Natural Gas, tin, zinc, petroleum, antimony, iron, silver, gold, lead, hydropower and timber.
It also imports petroleum products, plastics, paper, aircraft and aircraft parts, prepared foods, automobiles, insecticides, soybeans to other nations. Despite South America's second-largest natural gas reserves as well as considerable oil producer, the country remained one of the poorest on the continent.
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