Bolivia
Plurinational State of Bolivia
- Region
- Americas · South America
- Capital
- Sucre
- Population
- 12,581,843 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Bolivian boliviano (BOB)
- Official languages
- Aymara, Guaraní, Quechua, Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish (official) 68.1%, Quechua (official) 17.2%, Aymara (official) 10.5%, Guarani (official) 0.6%, other 1.5%, unspecified 2.1%
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 1,098,581 km²
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, Mercosur (associate), WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Paraguay , Peru
Political stability
57 / 100
Economic stability
27 / 100
Population stability
81 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- gold, natural gas, precious metal ore, zinc ore, soybean meal (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, cars, pesticides, trucks, plastics (2023)
- Natural resources
- lithium, tin, natural gas, petroleum, zinc, tungsten, antimony, silver, iron, lead, gold, timber
- Critical minerals
- Holds some of the world’s largest lithium resources (salar brines).
- Primary route
- Atlantic services to Europe and North America
- Secondary route
- Asia services via the Panama Canal or Cape of Good Hope
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Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.