_#_Terrain: high plateau, hills, lowland plains

_#_Natural resources: tin, natural gas, crude oil, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron ore, lead, gold, timber

_#_Land use: arable land 3%; permanent crops NEGL%; meadows and pastures 25%; forest and woodland 52%; other 20%; includes irrigated NEGL%

_#_Environment: cold, thin air of high plateau is obstacle to efficient fuel combustion; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification

_#_Note: landlocked; shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake, with Peru

_*People #_Population: 7,156,591 (July 1991), growth rate 2.4% (1991)

_#_Birth rate: 34 births/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Death rate: 9 deaths/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Net migration rate: - 1 migrant/1,000 population (1991)

_#_Infant mortality rate: 83 deaths/1,000 live births (1991)