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Bolivia population

UN name: Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Bolivia population now

12,790,197

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 12.6–13.1 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 12,244,160

Year
2026
projection · medium
Population, mid-2026
12.7493 million
95% range, 31 Dec: 12.6–13.1 million
Median age
26.5
Aged 65+
5.8%
2023 | 2024 peak 2086

male female projection · one cell = 2,000 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

BOL · 1950–2100 · in brief

Bolivia in numbers

The UN counts 12,244,160 people in Bolivia in mid-2023, which makes it the 79th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports, and 0.15% of the world's people. That is 4.0 times its 1950 population of 3.1 million.

The UN's medium projection has it peaking in 2086 at 17.9 million, then falling to 17.8 million by 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 10.5 million to 33.1 million.

The medium projection has deaths passing births in 2089 and staying above them from then on.

The median age was 20.6 in 1950 and 25.7 in 2023; the projection has 42.1 in 2100. 5.6% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 21.2% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2073 at 11.5 million.

By size it is the 79th country in 2023; the projection puts it 80th in 2050 and 83rd in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Romania in 2050, Taiwan in 2061 and Chile in 2074. It is overtaken by South Sudan in 2030, Jordan in 2046 and Togo in 2054.

Population, mid-2023
12,244,160
Rank by population, 2023
79 of 236
Share of the world, 2023
0.15%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023
+1.38% · +167,006 people
People per km² of land, 2023
11
Land area, 2023
1,083,300 km²
Births, 2023
260,151
Deaths, 2023
87,812
Net migration, 2023
−3,008
Children per woman, 2023
2.55
Median age, 2023
25.7 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023
68.6 years
In a city, 2025
55 of every 100
Population, mid-1950
3,089,969
Projected, mid-2050
16,110,162
Projected, mid-2100
17,760,564

BOL · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

peak 2086estimates | projections010 m20 m30 m40 m1950197520002025205020752100

estimate   projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range   95% range   medium projection. One column is one year's population, read on 1 January; the paper rules divide it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Bolivia, 1950–2100
Bolivia: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
YearKindPopulation, 1 Jan95% rangeBirthsDeathsChildren per womanLife expectancy
1950estimate3,067,084133,00379,8416.1940.7
1951estimate3,112,854135,05279,8906.1940.9
1952estimate3,161,740137,09880,2786.1841.0
1953estimate3,213,335139,87980,2756.2041.4
1954estimate3,268,594142,66580,5976.2141.7
1955estimate3,327,090145,96481,1356.2441.9
1956estimate3,388,918148,90081,6526.2542.2
1957estimate3,453,760152,34582,3496.2642.4
1958estimate3,521,378155,66582,9146.2742.7
1959estimate3,591,739159,12283,5316.2843.0
1960estimate3,664,644162,55584,0526.2743.3
1961estimate3,740,001165,79384,6866.2643.6
1962estimate3,817,462169,17585,0846.2544.0
1963estimate3,897,524172,61485,6066.2344.3
1964estimate3,980,302175,83586,0946.2144.7
1965estimate4,065,690179,01186,3576.1845.1
1966estimate4,153,901182,49386,6926.1645.5
1967estimate4,245,198186,30786,9696.1345.9
1968estimate4,339,945189,92987,2586.1046.3
1969estimate4,437,944193,05787,6976.0646.7
1970estimate4,538,520195,85487,9576.0047.1
1971estimate4,641,500199,00088,2565.9547.5
1972estimate4,747,185201,38388,5835.8847.8
1973estimate4,854,771204,98588,6625.8548.3
1974estimate4,965,630208,26388,7015.8048.8
1975estimate5,079,321211,19388,3325.7549.3
1976estimate5,195,758216,57288,0185.7450.0
1977estimate5,317,234219,94888,3795.6750.4
1978estimate5,441,098223,02288,5205.6150.8
1979estimate5,567,149225,67688,3425.5451.4
1980estimate5,694,549228,74288,2835.4751.8
1981estimate5,823,252231,53788,3385.4152.3
1982estimate5,952,967233,73788,9125.3552.5
1983estimate6,083,209236,26389,1375.2952.9
1984estimate6,214,912239,30688,7625.2453.4
1985estimate6,348,825241,06788,7845.1553.8
1986estimate6,483,546244,77788,6285.1254.3
1987estimate6,621,412248,35387,8935.0654.9
1988estimate6,762,912252,12487,3665.0355.5
1989estimate6,908,105254,68186,6394.9656.1
1990estimate7,055,428257,15685,8074.9056.8
1991estimate7,204,857259,83584,9964.8557.4
1992estimate7,355,722258,73584,4974.7157.9
1993estimate7,504,950258,32282,9794.5958.7
1994estimate7,653,441258,09682,7054.4959.3
1995estimate7,801,203257,95982,8204.4159.8
1996estimate7,948,148258,83982,9764.3460.3
1997estimate8,095,324256,87083,1384.2260.8
1998estimate8,240,476257,43383,2274.1561.2
1999estimate8,386,312258,63683,5844.0961.7
2000estimate8,533,299256,86583,8663.9962.1
2001estimate8,679,352254,87683,7013.8962.5
2002estimate8,826,120253,92583,2713.8063.1
2003estimate8,974,591254,64282,7983.7263.5
2004estimate9,126,809254,85482,5083.6363.8
2005estimate9,281,764255,84682,2833.5664.2
2006estimate9,439,743260,34582,3393.5364.5
2007estimate9,603,635260,30281,9893.4564.9
2008estimate9,768,284260,46681,8943.3665.3
2009estimate9,933,431260,58981,8493.2965.7
2010estimate10,099,120260,86481,8283.2166.0
2011estimate10,265,570261,00782,1753.1466.3
2012estimate10,432,288261,11282,3873.0866.6
2013estimate10,599,326261,05583,1243.0166.8
2014estimate10,765,889260,81683,8512.9567.0
2015estimate10,931,888260,53384,3662.8967.2
2016estimate11,097,522260,18585,1232.8367.4
2017estimate11,262,517259,92186,1182.7867.5
2018estimate11,426,658259,78987,0192.7367.7
2019estimate11,590,078259,76788,1732.6967.8
2020estimate11,752,693259,912128,0392.6562.9
2021estimate11,879,906260,326140,7492.6261.4
2022estimate11,994,813260,45792,7652.5867.4
2023estimate12,159,495260,15187,8122.5568.6
2024estimate12,328,824261,00389,0242.5268.7
2025projection12,497,80612.4–12.6 million261,48690,2312.5068.9
2026projection12,665,87912.5–12.8 million261,49691,5212.4769.1
2027projection12,832,70312.6–13.1 million261,79692,8712.4569.2
2028projection12,998,47512.7–13.3 million261,61294,2972.4269.4
2029projection13,162,50912.8–13.6 million261,55995,7872.4069.5
2030projection13,325,04512.9–13.8 million261,37197,2622.3869.7
2031projection13,486,08313.0–14.0 million261,07398,7952.3669.8
2032projection13,644,93313.1–14.3 million260,501100,3722.3370.0
2033projection13,801,79013.1–14.6 million260,216102,0472.3270.1
2034projection13,956,31313.2–14.8 million259,620103,8002.3070.3
2035projection14,108,85013.3–15.1 million259,013105,5452.2870.4
2036projection14,258,79513.4–15.3 million258,035107,3682.2670.6
2037projection14,405,84613.4–15.5 million257,338109,2682.2470.7
2038projection14,550,36013.5–15.8 million256,614111,2032.2370.8
2039projection14,692,45913.6–16.0 million255,648113,1522.2171.0
2040projection14,831,43613.7–16.3 million254,549115,0952.1971.2
2041projection14,967,35713.7–16.5 million253,756117,1332.1871.3
2042projection15,100,61313.8–16.8 million252,831119,1792.1671.5
2043projection15,230,87213.8–17.0 million252,151121,3612.1571.6
2044projection15,358,15213.9–17.2 million251,010123,5452.1371.7
2045projection15,482,26913.9–17.5 million250,259125,7662.1271.9
2046projection15,603,31314.0–17.8 million249,318128,0242.1172.0
2047projection15,721,31714.0–18.1 million248,629130,1662.1072.1
2048projection15,836,17514.0–18.3 million247,776132,4182.0872.3
2049projection15,948,33114.1–18.5 million246,836134,5542.0772.4
2050projection16,057,28914.1–18.8 million246,054136,9122.0672.6
2051projection16,163,03514.1–19.1 million245,130139,1002.0572.7
2052projection16,265,55114.1–19.4 million244,067141,2572.0472.9
2053projection16,364,71914.1–19.6 million243,085143,4762.0373.0
2054projection16,460,60214.1–19.9 million242,315145,6092.0273.2
2055projection16,553,76314.1–20.1 million241,283147,8712.0173.3
2056projection16,643,18714.1–20.4 million240,236150,0922.0073.4
2057projection16,729,82514.1–20.7 million238,992152,3581.9973.6
2058projection16,813,13214.1–20.9 million237,923154,5661.9873.7
2059projection16,893,36214.0–21.2 million237,075156,7981.9773.9
2060projection16,970,38414.0–21.4 million236,288159,0931.9674.0
2061projection17,044,18214.0–21.8 million235,464161,4171.9674.1
2062projection17,115,04814.0–22.0 million234,661163,7171.9574.3
2063projection17,182,70313.9–22.4 million233,817166,0011.9574.4
2064projection17,247,48913.9–22.7 million232,979168,1451.9474.6
2065projection17,309,32013.9–23.0 million231,934170,3721.9374.7
2066projection17,367,61913.8–23.2 million230,754172,3941.9374.9
2067projection17,423,10013.7–23.5 million229,570174,6181.9275.0
2068projection17,475,29313.6–23.8 million228,444176,7591.9175.2
2069projection17,523,71413.6–24.0 million227,403178,8751.9175.3
2070projection17,569,14113.5–24.3 million226,437180,9771.9175.4
2071projection17,611,27113.5–24.7 million225,296182,8691.9075.6
2072projection17,650,77713.4–25.0 million224,584184,8851.9075.7
2073projection17,687,43013.3–25.3 million223,279186,7301.8975.9
2074projection17,720,65113.2–25.6 million222,316188,4941.8976.0
2075projection17,751,59613.2–25.9 million221,005190,2361.8876.1
2076projection17,779,69413.1–26.2 million219,527191,8281.8876.3
2077projection17,804,66613.0–26.5 million218,059193,4841.8776.4
2078projection17,826,26612.9–26.8 million216,595195,0831.8676.6
2079projection17,844,87612.8–27.0 million215,817196,5451.8676.7
2080projection17,860,89312.7–27.3 million214,634197,9351.8576.8
2081projection17,874,42912.6–27.5 million213,650199,1671.8577.0
2082projection17,885,60912.5–27.7 million212,610200,4911.8577.1
2083projection17,894,46612.4–28.1 million211,702201,8321.8577.3
2084projection17,901,27012.3–28.5 million210,709202,9031.8477.4
2085projection17,906,10912.2–28.8 million209,857203,8341.8477.5
2086projection17,908,72312.1–29.1 million208,682204,6351.8477.7
2087projection17,909,53712.0–29.4 million207,571205,5351.8377.8
2088projection17,908,38311.8–29.7 million206,411206,0651.8378.0
2089projection17,905,97211.8–30.0 million205,445206,7651.8378.1
2090projection17,901,91411.7–30.2 million204,464207,4801.8378.3
2091projection17,896,09911.5–30.3 million203,233208,1671.8278.4
2092projection17,888,37411.4–30.6 million202,328208,5691.8278.5
2093projection17,879,30811.3–31.0 million201,207209,0161.8278.7
2094projection17,868,86411.2–31.2 million200,197209,5561.8178.8
2095projection17,857,25411.1–31.5 million199,022210,0891.8179.0
2096projection17,843,60011.0–31.8 million197,568210,6221.8079.1
2097projection17,828,24710.8–32.0 million196,341211,0551.8079.2
2098projection17,811,06910.7–32.3 million195,391211,5871.8079.3
2099projection17,792,11410.6–32.8 million194,302211,9541.7979.5
2100projection17,771,64410.5–33.1 million193,045212,3991.7979.6
Show the numbers: Bolivia, mid-2026, by single year of age
Bolivia: population by single year of age, mid-2026
AgeMaleFemale
0129,637124,999
1128,640124,144
2127,851123,382
3127,273122,841
4126,882122,480
5126,330121,966
6125,767121,454
7125,306121,055
8124,946120,749
9124,682120,518
10124,485120,353
11124,282120,202
12124,043120,008
13123,722119,739
14123,288119,351
15122,752118,875
16122,112118,324
17121,411117,733
18120,660117,134
19119,890116,539
20118,064114,937
21115,932113,065
22114,730112,083
23113,538111,066
24112,550110,226
25112,072109,926
26111,670109,743
27110,491108,782
28108,747107,238
29107,658106,298
30106,500105,214
31104,924103,711
32103,554102,420
33102,206101,198
34100,998100,090
3599,18098,242
3696,62095,646
3794,04493,000
3891,19489,999
3988,10286,831
4085,02683,774
4182,33581,130
4279,79478,669
4377,11376,240
4474,66674,188
4572,34972,205
4670,06070,194
4767,97468,300
4866,00466,433
4963,94064,427
5061,51061,999
5159,17459,640
5257,17657,645
5355,06055,543
5453,07253,614
5551,13851,804
5649,13249,970
5747,13048,200
5845,02646,364
5942,85744,476
6040,73842,655
6138,73340,962
6236,79339,314
6334,84537,616
6432,88435,868
6530,94834,105
6629,01332,305
6727,06930,452
6825,16028,587
6923,29126,720
7021,50224,915
7119,77823,174
7218,12321,508
7316,55919,958
7415,07818,511
7513,68017,162
7612,23015,674
7711,10614,427
7810,41713,752
799,58012,946
808,49711,743
817,37210,425
826,2949,116
835,3047,882
844,4186,755
853,6425,748
862,9794,866
872,4264,098
881,9863,452
891,6442,915
901,3592,448
911,0982,019
928571,626
936431,273
94464970
95324719
96218520
97143367
9891252
9954165
100+74266

BOL · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Bolivia, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

BOL · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Bolivia

On the UN's projection, Bolivia will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2073: 11,500,700 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 7,873,870.

100 aged 15–64
47 children
9 aged 65+

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: take 100 people of working age — the orange row — and the two rows under it are the children (teal) and the people of 65 and over (violet) who lived alongside them in 2023.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 22 years: 2037–2058.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

BOL · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Bolivia, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Bolivia loses 3,521 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 20–24, at 675 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 100 people a year
020406080+

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: age runs left to right, babies to 100. A blue square above the line means arrivals outnumber departures at that age, an orange square below it means the opposite. The figures are the UN's projection for 2020–2025; nobody recorded migration by age before 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was -2,377 (1957) and the most it lost was 28,685 (1996).

In 2024, 183,234 people living in Bolivia had been born in another country, 2 of every 100 people there, against 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

BOL · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Bolivia

Of every 100 babies born in Bolivia in 2023, 15 had a mother under 20, 70 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 15 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 12 under 20 and 20 aged 35 or older.

1950
12 · 68 · 20
2023
15 · 70 · 15
2050 · projected
12 · 71 · 17

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: one block a year, 100 squares in each, a square for every hundredth baby. The colour is the mother's age group, and the three numbers underneath are those groups in order, youngest first.

Babies born, 2023
260,151
Average age when women have a baby
28.1 years
29.8 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19
65
102 in 1950
Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100
Babies born in Bolivia by the mother's age
Mother's age19501975200020232050 projected2100 projected
10–141,1361,5271,35379936363
15–1914,99024,74240,99137,35329,7588,378
20–2432,89453,20571,03467,65657,85629,956
25–2932,61952,23960,11565,55263,28755,095
30–3425,36340,30743,57049,81054,02359,258
35–3917,19924,82926,94228,91731,72632,527
40–447,31911,70810,8538,9078,3457,269
45–491,4172,5191,9321,132688494
50–5466117752585
All babies133,003211,193256,865260,151246,054193,045

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

BOL · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Bolivia

A baby born in Bolivia in 2021 could expect 65.4 years of life, 57.4 of them in full health (95% range 56.7–58.2). The years in less than full health come to 8.0, below the world's 9.5: shorter lives leave fewer years in which to be ill.

Women

58.8 in full health, 9.6 not: 68.4 years

Men

56.3 in full health, 6.6 not: 62.9 years

a year in full health   a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 58.8 healthy years of 68.4. Men: 56.3 of 62.9. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 63.6.

BOL · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Bolivia

At the end of 2025, Bolivia was hosting 9,406 people who had crossed a border into it, about 0.8 of every 1,000 people living there.

  1. hosted from abroad9,406
  2. Bolivia nationals abroad7,457

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 200 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Bolivia living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 10 people asked for asylum in Bolivia for the first time; 4,043 people from Bolivia asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Bolivia whose claims were decided that year, 9 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

BOL · of every 100 people

How people live in Bolivia

Of every 100 people in Bolivia in 2025, 55 lived in a city, 17 in a town or suburb and 28 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

3.4 of every 100 have no electricity at home (2024). 20.3 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: everyone here, shrunk to 100 squares, with the colour saying whether that hundredth person lives in a city, a town or the countryside. Every country is measured by the same rule.

How the world's people live

BOL · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Bolivia went in school

Of every 100 adults in Bolivia in 2020, 6 never went to school and 46 finished upper secondary or went further.

6 never went to school 16 some primary 15 finished primary 17 finished lower secondary 26 finished upper secondary 20 studied after school

Among women, 1.3 of every 100 aged 25–29 never went to school, against 17.4 of every 100 aged 60–64; among men, 1.2 against 5.2.

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2065; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: the row is the adults (25 and over) shrunk to 100 people, coloured by how far each went in school, least schooling on the left. The Wittgenstein Centre's count, 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

BOL · cities · 2025

Cities in Bolivia

Bolivia had 12 cities in 2025, home to 6.9 million people. The largest, La Paz, holds 16 of every 100 people in Bolivia.

  1. La Paz2,024,413
  2. Santa Cruz de la Sierra1,980,432
  3. Cochabamba1,346,672
  4. Oruro347,830
  5. Sucre286,383
  6. Potosí243,927
  7. Tarija235,198
  8. Montero123,020
  9. Trinidad113,735
  10. Riberalta84,432

How to read this: one bar for each of the 10 largest cities, 2025, all on the same scale. "City" here means the built-up area the UN measures, not the boundary the city draws itself.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Bolivia are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.