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South America > Bolivia > Crime

BOLIVIAN CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 2.32 % ... [16th of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 7.97 % ... [8th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 63.81 % ... [6th of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 0.08 % ... [22nd of 39]
Illicit drugs
world's third-largest cultivator of coca (after Colombia and Peru) with an estimated 26,500 hectares under cultivation in August 2005, an 8% increase from 2004; transit country for Peruvian and Colombian cocaine destined for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, and Europe; cultivation steadily increasing despite eradication and alternative crop programs; money-laundering activity related to narcotics trade, especially along the borders with Brazil and Paraguay; major cocaine consumption
Prisoners 8,315 prisoners [72nd of 164]
Prisoners > Female 16.7% [2nd of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 102 per 100,000 people [89th of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 36% [58th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 162.5% [25th of 128]
Software piracy losses $11.00 [70th of 84]
Software piracy rate 78% [16th of 84]
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Current situation
Bolivia is a source and transit country for men, women, and children trafficked for the purposes of labor and sexual exploitation to Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, as well as to Spain; children are trafficked internally for sexual exploitation, forced mining, and agricultural labor; illegal migrants from Asia transiting Bolivia are vulnerable as trafficking victims
Transnational Issues > Trafficking in persons > Tier rating
Tier 2 Watch List - Bolivia has failed to show evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in the areas of prosecutions and victim protection
United States extradition treaties > Date signed June 27, 1995
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force November 21, 1996
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 9 [66th of 116]
    (per $ GDP) 0.000403045 per $1 million [49th of 115]
    (per capita) 1.01603 per 1 million people [62nd of 116]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Software piracy study - Business Software Association of Australia; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Mr Lennox-Boyd's reports to the House of Commons; recorded in the House of Commons Hansard for 03-11-92

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Bolivia, Republic of Bolivia, Republica de Bolivia

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