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South America > Bolivia > Transportation

BOLIVIAN TRANSPORTATION STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Aircraft departures 20,100 [68th of 155]
Airports > With paved runways > 914 to 1523 m 3 [55th of 117]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 1524 to 2437 m 60 [6th of 99]
Airports > With unpaved runways > 914 to 1523 m 207 [7th of 137]
Highways > Paved 3,496 km [88th of 171]
Highways > Total 53,790 km [50th of 181]
Motor vehicles 46 motor vehicles per 100 p [83rd of 134]
Ports and harbors
Puerto Aguirre (on the Paraguay/Parana waterway, at the Bolivia/Brazil border); also, Bolivia has free port privileges in maritime ports in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Paraguay
Railways, goods transported > million ton-km 1,057 million ton-km ... [67th of 84]
Railways, passengers carried > million passenger-km 286 million passenger-km ... [65th of 83]
Roads, paved > % of total roads 7 % ... [63rd of 163]
Roads, total network > km 62,479 km ... [33rd of 172]
Roadways > Paved 3,749 km [119th of 205]
Roadways > Total 62,479 km [68th of 222]
Roadways > Unpaved 58,730 km [36th of 175]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > international
has reactivated its claim to restore the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile in 1884, to secure sovereign maritime access for Bolivian natural gas
Travel services > % of commercial service exports 50.49 % ... [59th of 153]
Travel services > % of commercial service imports 28.08 % ... [52nd of 153]
Vehicle abundance 0.82 per square km [106th of 141]
Waterways 10,000 km [13th of 106]

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005 World Bank Global Development Indicators, 2001; World Bank, World Development Indicators 2001, Washington, DC: World Bank, 2001

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

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