World population/Bolivia
South America
Population of Bolivia
12,749,296
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#79
world rank
0.15%
of world population
+1.30%
yearly change
+166,291
people this year
261,496
births a year
91,522
deaths a year
How the figure for Bolivia is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Bolivia at 12,749,296 on 1 July 2026, and projects 12,915,587 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Bolivia at number 79 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.15 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 261,496 births and 91,522 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.