🇧🇴Bolivia

La Paz

Americas

Lower middle income

BOL

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Population

12.6M

1.4%as of 2025

Fertility Rate

2.52

births/woman

Life Expectancy

68.7y

GDP / capita

$5.1K

Pop. Growth

1.35%

Net Migration

-3.2K

Population over time

Total population · observed (solid) and UN medium projection to 2100 (dashed)

Source: World Bank · UN World Population Prospects 2024

Fertility rate over time

Births per woman · dashed line = replacement (2.1)

Source: World Bank

Where immigrants come from

Largest foreign-born communities in Bolivia by country of birth (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇷Argentina53.1K(29.7%)

+45%

🇧🇷Brazil31.9K(17.9%)

+45%

🇪🇸

Population projections to 2100

Official UN projections — Low / Medium / High variants

Source: UN World Population Prospects 2024

Population pyramid (2025)

Age & sex structure · share of total population by 5-year cohort

Male6.3MTotal 12.6M6.3MFemale

Source: birthrate.io model

GDP per capita over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Life expectancy over time

Years at birth

Source: World Bank

Society, housing & beliefs

Family, crime, housing and religion indicators

Homicide rate

4.4

per 100,000

Divorce rate

—

per 1,000

Births outside marriage

—

of births

Home ownership

—

of households

Homicide rate over time

Intentional homicides per 100,000 people

Source: World Bank / UNODC

GDP over time

Current US$

Source: World Bank

Net migration over time

Net migrants per year (immigrants − emigrants)

Source: World Bank

Foreign-born population over time

Immigrant / diaspora population living in the country

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

Foreign-born share over time

Foreign-born residents as % of the population

Source: World Bank / UN DESA

🇵🇪Peru14K(7.8%)

+45%

🇲🇽Mexico11.8K(6.6%)

+45%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB6.4K(3.6%)

+860%

🇺🇸United States6.1K(3.4%)

+45%

🇨🇱Chile5.9K(3.3%)

+45%

🇵🇾Paraguay5.3K(3.0%)

+45%

🇨🇴Colombia3.7K(2.1%)

+45%

🇩🇪Germany2.5K(1.4%)

+45%

🇨🇺Cuba2.2K(1.2%)

+45%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024

Where the Bolivia diaspora lives

Top destinations for people born in Bolivia who now live abroad (2024) · arrow shows change since 2010.

🇦🇷Argentina337K(43.0%)

−1%

🇪🇸Spain188.9K(24.1%)

−10%

🇨🇱Chile150.2K(19.2%)

+541%

🇧🇷Brazil46.4K(5.9%)

+23%

🇵🇪Peru22.2K(2.8%)

+232%

🇮🇹Italy14.9K(1.9%)

+29%

🇯🇵Japan6.5K(0.8%)

+29%

🇨🇦Canada4.2K(0.5%)

−15%

🇲🇽Mexico2.8K(0.4%)

+41%

🇻🇪Venezuela, RB1.8K(0.2%)

−7%

🇨🇴Colombia1.3K(0.2%)

+60%

🇦🇺Australia1.2K(0.2%)

+39%

Source: UN DESA International Migrant Stock 2024