About Bolivia

This next chart also comes from the Compassion website and it offers a comparison of life in Bolivia as opposed to life in the United States:
The first column, of course, represents Bolivia and the second column represents USA.

Capital	La Paz	Washington, D.C.
Population	9,119,152 (July 2007 estimate)	301,139,947 (July 2007 estimate)
Languages	Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara (official)	English 82.1%, Spanish 10.7%, other Indo-European 3.8%, Asian and Pacific island 2.7%, other 0.7% (2000 census)
Religions	Christian: Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%	Christian 78% (Protestant 52%, Roman Catholic 24%, Morman 2%), Jewish 1%, Muslim 1%, other 10%, none 10% (2002 estimate)
Literacy rate Definition: Age 15 and over can read and write.	Male: 93.1% Female: 80.7% (2001 estimate)	Male: 99% Female: 99% (2003 estimate)
Percentage of population using improved drinking water sources	Urban: 95% Rural: 68% (2004 estimate)	Urban: 100% Rural: 100% (2004 estimate)
Percentage of population using adequate sanitation facilities	Urban: 60% Rural: 22% (2004 estimate)	Urban: 100% Rural: 100% (2004 estimate)
Climate	Varies with altitude; humid and tropical to cold and semiarid	Mostly temperate but tropical in Hawaii and Florida, arctic in Alaska, semiarid in the Great Plains west of the Mississippi River and arid in the Great Basin of the southwest; low winter temperatures in the northwest are warmed occasionally in January and February by chinook winds from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains.
Percentage of population urbanized	64% (2005 estimate)	81% (2005 estimate)
Life expectancy	Male: 63.53 years Female: 68.97 years (2007 estimate)	Male: 75.15 years Female: 80.97 years (2007 estimate)
Under-5 mortality rate	65/1,000 (2005 estimate)	7/1,000 (2005 estimate)
GDP per capita	$3,100 (2006 estimate)	$43,800 (2006 estimate)
Monetary unit	boliviano (BOB)	U.S. dollar (USD)
Number of people living with HIV/AIDS	4,900 (2003 estimate)	950,000 (2003 estimate)
Percentage of population living below $1 a day	23% (1994-2004 study)	Data not available

Sources for facts: The World Factbook, 2007; The State of the World's Children, 2007

I will post more about Bolivia's history and other information next time.