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South America > Bolivia > Government

BOLIVIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city
La Paz (seat of government); Sucre (legal capital and seat of judiciary)
Corruption 2.5 [120th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 12% [45th of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 16.9 % ... [72nd of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 15 ... [9th of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age, universal and compulsory (married); 21 years of age, universal and compulsory (single)
Time required to build a warehouse > days 183 days ... [88th of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 591 days ... [59th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 92 days ... [50th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 50 days ... [47th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 1,080 hours ... [7th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 1.8 years ... [121st of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 51,240 ... [53rd of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 4,051 ... [30th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 670 ... [58th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Chile rebuffs Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884, offering instead unrestricted but not sovereign maritime access through Chile for Bolivian natural gas and other commodities
UN membership date 14 Nov. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.rree.gov.bo/ (espanol)
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

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

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