Bolivia

Bolivia's dollar GDP and its real economy moved in opposite directions in 2025. Real output contracted 1.6%, yet US$ GDP rose 18.0% to US$64.8 billion; the 19.6-percentage-point gap was mostly exchange-rate and price effects, not output. The country still climbed 1 place to 89th, between Azerbaijan and Uganda. Inflation reached 19.5%.

Services account for 53.4% of output and industry 31.3%, with manufacturing at 13.1% and agriculture at 8.8%, all as of 2024. Unemployment was 3.0% and government gross debt 83.3% of GDP.

With 12.6 million people, output per person is US$5,148, 123rd of 196, and $12,873 international dollars on a purchasing-power basis, 124th. Over the long run the economy has grown 7.7x, from US$8.4 billion in 2000, when it ranked 98th of 194. Bolivia is the 15th largest of 35 economies in Latin America & Caribbean and about the size of the Albuquerque, NM metro area. The IMF does not publish a forecast for Bolivia in this edition.