In Bolivia, more than half of the population—around 5.2 million people—live in poverty, and 2.7 million of those people live in extreme poverty.
This data was contained in a 2011 report about human development from the United Nations Development Program, presented yesterday in the Bolivian foreign ministry. It recommended that Bolivia improve its policies against poverty rates that remain high. It also recommends that the country improve its education and environmental policies.
According to the report, the average number of years of education attained in the country is 8.6 years. Non-indigenous men belonging to the wealthiest 20 percent have 14 years of education, on average; indigenous females in the poorest 20 percent have only two years of education, on average.
A quarter of Bolivian children do not finish primary school, half do not finish high school, and almost 14,000 die each year from preventable or treatable diseases.
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