Acknowledging this situation, in the latter half of the 1990s Bolivia gave priority to programmes to resolve the social situation. Efforts were made to achieve a better level of coverage in education, health and basic sanitation services, with positive but still insufficient results. As regards health, in 2001 the maternal mortality rate in Bolivia was 420 per 100,000 live births, the highest rate in Latin America. The infant mortality rate fell from 89 per 1,000 live births in 1990 to 54 per 1,000 live births in 2004. Between 1994 and 2003, the proportion of births attended.
