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Electricity - production:

4.475 billion kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 116

Electricity - consumption:

528.8 million kWh (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 160

Electricity - exports:

3.644 billion kWh (2007 est.)

Electricity - imports:

11 million kWh (2007 est.)

Oil - production:

0 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 203

Oil - consumption:

1,000 bbl/day (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 187

Oil - exports:

0 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 140

Oil - imports:

1,168 bbl/day (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 187

Oil - proved reserves:

0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 201

Natural gas - production:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 98

Natural gas - consumption:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 203

Natural gas - exports:

0 cu m (2008) country comparison to the world: 199

Natural gas - imports:

0 cu m (2008 est.) country comparison to the world: 72

Natural gas - proved reserves:

0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.) country comparison to the world: 200

Current account balance:

$116 million (2007 est.) country comparison to the world: 57

Exports:

$350 million (2006) country comparison to the world: 169

Exports - commodities:

electricity (to India), cardamom, gypsum, timber, handicrafts, cement, fruit, precious stones, spices

Exports - partners:

India 89%, Bangladesh 6.5%, Italy 1.2% (2008)

Imports:

$320 million (2006) country comparison to the world: 192

Imports - commodities:

fuel and lubricants, grain, aircraft, machinery and parts, vehicles, fabrics, rice

Imports - partners:

India 59.5%, Japan 13.4%, China 5.6% (2008)

Debt - external:

$713.3 million (2006) country comparison to the world: 158

Exchange rates:

ngultrum (BTN) per US dollar - 41.487 (2007), 45.279 (2006), 44.101 (2005), 45.317 (2004), 46.583 (2003)

note: the ngultrum is pegged to the Indian rupee

Communications ::Bhutan

Telephones - main lines in use:

27,500 (2008) country comparison to the world: 181

Telephones - mobile cellular:

251,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 170

Telephone system:

general assessment: urban towns and district headquarters have telecommunications services

domestic: low teledensity; domestic service is very poor especially in rural areas; wireless service available since 2003

international: country code - 975; international telephone and telegraph service via landline and microwave relay through India; satellite earth station - 1 Intelsat (2008)

Radio broadcast stations:

AM 0, FM 9, shortwave 1 (2007)

Television broadcast stations:

1 (2007)

Internet country code:

.bt

Internet hosts:

9,096 (2009) country comparison to the world: 119

Internet users:

40,000 (2008) country comparison to the world: 174

Transportation ::Bhutan

Airports:

2 (2009) country comparison to the world: 197

Airports - with paved runways:

total: 1

1,524 to 2,437 m: 1 (2009)

Airports - with unpaved runways:

total: 1

914 to 1,523 m: 1 (2009)

Roadways:

total: 8,050 km country comparison to the world: 140 paved: 4,991 km

unpaved: 3,059 km (2003)

Military ::Bhutan

Military branches:

Royal Bhutan Army (includes Royal Bodyguard and Royal Bhutan Police) (2009)

Military service age and obligation:

18 years of age for voluntary military service; no conscription (2008)

Manpower available for military service:

males age 16–49: 190,104

females age 16–49: 167,289 (2008 est.)

Manpower fit for military service:

males age 16–49: 150,210

females age 16–49: 135,991 (2009 est.)

Manpower reaching militarily significant age annually:

male: 7,668

female: 7,379 (2009 est.)

Military expenditures:

1% of GDP (2005 est.) country comparison to the world: 134

Transnational Issues ::Bhutan

Disputes - international:

Bhutan cooperates with India to expel Indian Nagaland separatists; lacking any treaty describing the boundary, Bhutan and China continue negotiations to establish a common boundary alignment to resolve territorial disputes arising from substantial cartographic discrepancies, the largest of which lie in Bhutan's northwest and along the Chumbi salient

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@Bolivia (South America)

Introduction ::Bolivia

Background:

Bolivia, named after independence fighter Simon BOLIVAR, broke away from Spanish rule in 1825; much of its subsequent history has consisted of a series of nearly 200 coups and countercoups. Democratic civilian rule was established in 1982, but leaders have faced difficult problems of deep-seated poverty, social unrest, and illegal drug production. In December 2005, Bolivians elected Movement Toward Socialism leader Evo MORALES president - by the widest margin of any leader since the restoration of civilian rule in 1982 - after he ran on a promise to change the country's traditional political class and empower the nation's poor, indigenous majority. However, since taking office, his controversial strategies have exacerbated racial and economic tensions between the Amerindian populations of the Andean west and the non-indigenous communities of the eastern lowlands.

Geography ::Bolivia

Location:

Central South America, southwest of Brazil

Geographic coordinates: