Global Spotlight

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Every month, we want to have a Global Spotlight on a different country from around the world. In this spotlight, we will provide information about each country, prayer needs of the country and possible trips for that country. 

Please join with us and pray for the different country every month and their needs. If we can't go to make an impact, we need to pray that God will still impact that area and provide the needs.

BOLIVIA

National Name: Bolivia

Languages: Spanish (official) Quechua, Aymara and other

Ethnicity/Race: Quechua 30%, mestizo (mixed white and Amerindian ancestry) 30%, Aymara 25%, white 15%

Religion: Roman Catholic 95%, Protestant (Evangelical Methodist) 5%

Literacy Rate: 86.7% (2001 est.)

Economic Summary:
  • GDP/PPP (2010 est.): $47.88 billion
  • Real Growth Rate: 4.2% (2010 est.)0
  • Inflation: 2.5% (2010 est.)
  • Unemployment: 8.3% (2010 est.)
  • Arable Land: 2.7%
  • Agriculture: Soybeans, Coffee, Coca, Cotton, Corn, Sugarcane, Rice, Potatoes, Timber
  • Labor Force: 4.614 million (2010 est); agriculture 40%, industry 17%, services 43% (2010 est)
  • Industries: Mining, Smelting, Petroleum, Food and Beverages, Tobacco, Handcrafts, Clothing
  • National Resources: tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber, hydropower
  • Exports: $6.291 billion (2010 est.)
  • Imports: $5.366 billion (2010 est.)
  • Major Trading Partners: Brazil, Argentina, USA, Peru, Chile (2009)

Communications:
  • Telephones: main lines in use: 810,200 (2009); mobile cellular: 7.148 million (2009)
  • Internet Hosts: 125,462 (2010)
  • Internet Users: 1.103 million (2009)

Transportation:
  • Railways: total: 3,652 km (2010)
  • Highways: total: 13,602 km(doesn't include urban roads); paved: 4,990 km; unpaved: 8,612 km (2004)
  • Waterways: 10,000 km (2010)
  • Ports and Harbors: Puerto Aguirre (inland port on the Paraguay/Parana waterway at the Bolivia/Brazil border); Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay
  • Airports: total: 881 (2010); paved: 16; unpaved: 865

(All information from the current World Factbook.)
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What to pray for.

The people
The missionaries
the government(very unstable)
the churches