NATIONWIDE SUMMARY OF SOCIAL INDICATORS REFERENCES THE ROAD to DEVELOPMENT IN Indicator Bolivia Chuquisaca La Paz Cochabamba Oruro Potosí Tarija Santa Cruz Beni Pando Extreme poverty: Extreme poverty percentage (%) - 2001 40,4 61,5 42,4 39,0 46,3 66,7 32,8 25,1 41,0 34,7 Why do natural The nationwide indicator can be obtained periodical- Net primary school coverage (%) - 2008 90,0 84,3 90,1 92,0 93,5 90,3 85,3 88,9 96,3 96,8 resources cause conflicts? ly on the basis of household surveys. However, the Completion rate through 8th grade (%) - 2008 77,3 57,5 87,8 73,6 88,9 66,1 74,8 77,8 74,4 63,1 representativeness of the estimates is insufficient to disaggregate indicators for smaller geographic areas Net secondary school coverage (%) - 2008 54,7 36,5 63,4 52,5 70,1 45,9 51,1 53,5 52,9 40,2 such as department, province, and municipality. The Oruro Completion rate through 4th grade of high school - 2008 56,3 38,0 69,3 56,1 74,9 45,6 51,3 51,5 47,0 37,5 calculation of this indicator for departmental and mu- Newsletter on the Social Situation in the Department | 2011 Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births (%) - 2008 50 42 63 63 56 101 37 31 39 47 nicipal levels was performed by UDAPE, INE, and the World Bank, by combining consumer spending Percentage of chronic malnutrition in children under 3 years of age (%) - 2008 20,3 26,3 20,6 24,0 28,5 38,5 11,0 7,1 12,1 10,3 estimates in the 2001 Census and three household CURRENT SITUATION The recent years have been a very important situation reveals a need for new public policy Maternal mortality ratio per 100,000 live births (%) - 2000 235 140 326 142 224 354 124 207 267 n/a surveys (1999, 2000, and 2001). This methodology General Information Bolivia Oruro period for the improvement of living condi- mechanisms, improved participatory process- Institutional delivery coverage (%) - 2009 67,0 64,5 62,7 68,4 86,3 57,4 70,9 68,0 77,8 78,3 cannot be replicated annually and data are available only for 2001. Number of people living in tions of Bolivians and Oruro residents. Sus- es, increased attention to public service qual- 3,323,307 176,734 Source: UDAPE, (2010); SIE (2010). extreme poverty - 2001 tained reduction in poverty rates, increased ity, new institutional coordination frameworks, Primary and secondary school: Children between 6 and 13 years coverage of primary and secondary education, both sector and territory-based, as well as new Data at nationwide, departmental, and municipal lev- of age not attending primary 190,148 5,233 MUNICIPAL SUMMARY OF SOCIAL INDICATORS IN OrurO lower infant mortality rates, improvement of social oversight mechanisms. els are obtained from administrative records avail- school - 2008 able from the Ministry of Education Information the nutritional status of children, as well as in- The gaps in access to education and health Extreme Net primary 8th grade of Net secondary 4th grade of Institutional Students who completed primary Map Infant mortality th 175,643 8,616 Municipality poverty school primary completion school coverage secondary delivery coverage System, population projections from the National school (8 grade) - 2008 creased coverage of institutional deliveries are care, lack of quality public services, and over- Code rate 2001 incidence 2001 coverage 2008 rate 2008 2008 completion rate 2008 2009 Institute of Statistics. Adolescents between 14 and clear examples of this development. all backwardness of certain groups in terms of 1 Sección Capital Oruro 22.5 113.9 110.3 91.6 92.4 67.3 115.1 17 years of age not attending 397,678 11,246 These advances, in part, are a result of con- achievement of better standards of living, are Infant mortality: secondary school - 2008 2 Primera Sección Caracollo 71.7 95.0 81.4 48.2 54.0 88.9 51.8 tinuity given to government policies adopted a central theme in the public agenda, as they The infant mortality rate is estimated by both direct Students who completed In Cuadernos del Futuro, volume 25, experts Juan Carlos Alurralde, 120,440 6,900 3 Segunda Sección El Choro 80.4 28.4 15.5 5.7 7.9 81.3 25.0 and indirect methods. The 2001 Census is one of secondary school (4th grade) - 2008 since the late twentieth century, as well as to are all problems that undermine the imple- Alcides Vadillo Pinto, Pablo Pacheco, and Rolando Jordan respond to the sources to measure the indicator by an indirect Children who died before their new initiatives aimed at achieving the univer- mentation of basic statements in the new Con- 4 Tercera Sección Soracachi (*) 71.1 85.1 51.4 29.4 28.4 n.d. 29.1 13,736 620 the question: Why are there conflicts over access and use of natural re- method and the National Demographic and Health first birthday - 2008 sal exercise of rights recognized by the Consti- stitution: universal exercise of rights such as 5 Primera Sección Challapata 70.3 98.5 84.9 55.5 61.9 107.4 105.0 Survey (ENDSA) provides historical information on sources in Bolivia? Children under three years births to estimate the indicator by means of a direct tution. Policies such as conditional and uncon- education, health care, non-discrimination, fair 6 Segunda Sección Santuario de Quillacas 65.7 42.3 50.1 28.2 40.2 127.3 62.0 of age suffering from chronic 158,899 8,904 method. ditional transfers, a new health care model, and income, and jobs. In short, there is still much 7 Primera Sección Corque 80.0 46.0 36.8 28.6 32.2 89.5 40.6 In their contributions, the authors describe the relationship between malnutrition - 2008 the new education law follow these lines. work to do to achieve universal exercise of so- Mothers who gave birth outside 8 Segunda Sección Choque Cota 83.7 54.7 51.9 39.6 37.8 92.0 20.4 natural resources and conflicts, from the perspective of their own fields Child Malnutrition: 91,982 1,512 the health system - 2009 In particular, the department of Oruro has cial and economic rights, which, in turn, leads 9 Primera Sección Curahuara de Carangas 81.7 66.2 49.5 44.8 49.6 79.1 69.1 of expertise. Juan Carlos Alurralde addresses, for example, the structural This indicator is calculated on the basis of ENDSA. shown important improvements in social in- to strengthened democracy and to the exercise It measures and shows the nutritional status of chil- 10 Segunda Sección Turco 71.5 76.3 97.2 43.7 54.6 124.4 79.1 inequities that threaten indigenous peoples and communities trying to get dren under three years of age and provides a more RELEVANT DATA dicators, particularly in primary and second- of full citizenship rights by all Bolivians. With 11 Primera Sección Huachacalla 67.1 41.4 36.0 18.0 31.6 91.4 30.1 access to water. Alcides Vadillo Pinto focuses its analysis on the Santa accurate assessment of their condition. ary school as well as in institutional delivery this goal in mind, the Analysis Unit for So- • Almost one half of the people (46.3%) in 12 Segunda Sección Escara 72.6 20.1 21.9 16.2 23.1 100.7 0.0 Cruz area of San Julian and El Puente, and concludes that “here, the strug- coverage. However, Oruro is still behind other cial and Economic Policy (UDAPE, in Span- Maternal mortality rate and coverage the department of Oruro were extremely 13 Tercera Sección Cruz de Machacamarca 82.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 82.7 0.0 gle for land has economic, class, ethnic, regional, and political dimen- regions in the country, especially in extreme ish) and the United Nations System in Bolivia of institutional deliveries: poor in 2001. poverty, infant mortality, and chronic malnu- publish this newsletter to inform on and share 14 Cuarta Sección Yunguyo de Litoral 77.2 15.1 0.0 0.0 0.0 89.6 0.0 sions.” Pablo Pacheco analyzes the thorny debate between development The number of maternal deaths is calculated on the • Primary school coverage in the depart- trition. The evolution of several indicators of knowledge about the status of the social situa- 15 Quinta Sección Esmeralda 70.6 9.6 0.0 0.0 0.0 82.9 9.5 and conservation. For his part, Rolando Jordan states: “We Bolivians have basis of ENDSA. For departmental disaggregation, ment shows significant progress towards the 2002 Post Census Maternal Mortality Survey well-being both at the total nationwide and tion in Oruro, so as to promote reflection and 16 Primera Sección Poopó (Villa Poopó) 61.4 75.3 63.1 54.1 62.1 92.2 43.5 not learned the lessons of the previous (mining) booms and are repeating achievement of universal education as in was taken into account, but it collects information departmental levels has begun to show decel- discussion about ongoing social public poli- 2008 net enrollment rate was at 93.5%, 17 Segunda Sección Pazña 49.2 114.9 102.4 82.8 134.4 86.1 94.8 history with admirable punctuality, making the same mistakes we made on maternal deaths which occurred in the year 2000. eration. This phenomenon is not a problem cies and supplementation with new necessary This information is not comparable to that obtained which placed Oruro as the department 18 Tercera Sección Antequera 54.2 101.8 91.9 76.3 104.1 107.2 56.8 back then, wasting resources and lacking foresight for public policy.” unique to Oruro or Bolivia since it affects or interventions to achieve concrete exercise of by means of ENDSA.