Bolivia
 

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Bolivia


Country Information

Capital: La Paz

Lenguage: Spanish, Quechua, Aymara

Population: 9.119.152

Geography: Covers an area of 1.098.581 km2. The southeast of Bolivia is dominated by the Andes Mountain range, divided into two large regions by the altiplano plain.  The Western Range shares a border with Chile.  Its peaks reach between 5,700 m. and 6,500 meters.  The highest point in Bolivia is Mt.  Ancohuma, at 7,014 meters.  The Eastern Range is dominated by the snowy peaks Illampu at 6,485 meters and Illimani at 6,882 meters, running in a northwest-southwest direction, opening towards the lowlands of the Amazon basin. Between the Western and Eastern Mountains is the Altiplano, which has an average height of 3,600 meters and is one of the highest populated areas in the world.  Three-quarters of Bolivia is occupied by the eastern plains, which incline gradually from elevations of 450 meters to 200 meters at the borders with  Brasil, Paraguay and Argentina. The northern plains of Beni are watered by the Beni and Mamoré Rivers, important tributaries of the great fluvial basin of the Amazon.

Climate: The climate of the Altiplano is cool and harsh all year long due to the elevation.  Day temperature reach between 15 ºC y 18 ºC, and the nights are freezing, especially during the winter months (June through August). Precipitation reaches 700 mm.  The Yungas are appreciably warmer as a result of their lower elevation, and possess a humid, sub-tropical climate characterized by heavy annual precipitation of over 1,250 mm, high humidity throughout the year, and an average annual temperature of  23 ºC. On the plains the climate is hot and sub-tropical, with heavy summer rains in the north and a drier, milder climate in the south.

Currency:
Boliviano
 

Change Type: 1 USD = 7.75 Bolivianos


Financial Information*

Institutional Characteristics

 

Number of MFIs

 

Total Assets

 

Sample size of group.

 

Total assets, adjusted for inflation and standardized loan portfolio provisioning and write-offs.

 

18

 

24,135,163

Financial Estructure

 

Capital / Assets Ratio

 

Commercial Funding

 

 

Debt / Equity Ratio

 

Gross Loan Portfolio / Total Assets

Total Equity, adjusted/ Total Assets, adjusted.

All liabilities with “market” price/ Average Gross Loan Portfolio
.

Total liabilities, adjusted/ Total Equity, adjusted.


Gross Loan Portfolio, adjusted/ Total Assets, adjusted

 

27.6%

 

75,9%


 

2.7

 


78.3%

Scale and Outreach

 

Number of Active Borrowers

 


% of Women Borrowers

 


Number of outstanding loans

 

 

Gross Loan Portfolio

 

Number of Borrowers with loans outstanding, adjusted for standardized write-offs.

 

Number of active women borrowers/ Number of Active Borrowers adjusted.

 

Number of outstanding loans, adjusted for standardized write-offs.

 

Gross Loan Portfolio, adjusted for standardized write-offss.

 

13,366

 

 

52.7%

 

 

13,717

 

 

18,650,707

Macroeconomic Indicators

 

GNP per capita


GDP Growth Rate

 

Deposit Rate  

 

Inflation Rate

 

Financial Penetration

 

US $

 

Annual Average

 

%

 

%

 

M3 / GIP

 

1,010

 

4.1%

 

4,0%

 

4,3%

 

51,6%

Profitability and Sustainability

 

Adjusted Return on Assets

 

 

Adjusted Return on Equito

 

 

Operational Self-Sufficiency

 

 

Financial Self-Sufficiency

 

Net Operating Income, adjusted and net of taxes/ Average Total Assets adjusted.

 

Net Operating Income, adjusted and net of taxes/ Average Total Equity adjusted.

 

Financial Revenue/ (Financial Expense + Net Loan Loss Provision Expense + Operating Expense).


Financial Revenue, adjusted/ (Financial Expense + Net Loan Loss Provision Expense + Operating Expense), adjusted.
.

 

2,0%

 

 

10,5%

 

 

116,6%

 

 

114,4%


* The data used in this section forms parts of a study by the MIX Society, Latin America, regarding the state of micro finances in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, as of December, 2006.  The information is part of a statistical sample of all the microfinance institutions in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Information taken from:  “Latin America and the Caribbean”, Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX), in Regional Benchmarks, MIX Latin America, December, 2006, Lima, Peru.  Available in:  www.themix.org


 
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