Bolivia
Plurinational State of Bolivia
- Capital
- Sucre
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 13 million
- Currency
- BOB
- Area
- 1,098,581 km²
Across Bolivia's 7 priced cities, one person needs about $533 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $287.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
- Purchasing power25%38
- Safety20%36
- Health care15%50
- Climate10%No data
- Air quality10%81
- Connectivity10%35
- Cost10%95
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #98
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 13%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 13%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 12.7%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 17.2%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 35.8
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 64.2
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 4.4
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #97 worldwide
- 74
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #99 worldwide
- 21
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +21%
Cities in Bolivia
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Tarija | 62 | 18.2 | $208 | — | — | 159.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 2Cochabamba | 60 | 19.4 | $163 | $397 | 100.2 | 841.3K | Medium confidence, 9 contributors |
| 3Quillacollo | 58 | — | — | — | — | 172.4K | Low confidence |
| 4Potosí | 57 | — | — | — | — | 141.3K | Low confidence |
| 5Sacaba | 57 | — | — | — | — | 180.7K | Low confidence |
| 6Oruro | 56 | — | — | — | — | 208.7K | Low confidence |
| 7Sucre | 55 | 20.5 | $444 | $310 | 47.2 | 224.8K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 8La Paz | 50 | 18.1 | $262 | $257 | 55.2 | 2M | Medium confidence, 15 contributors |
| 9Santa Cruz | 50 | 20.7 | $271 | $287 | 56.4 | 1.8M | High confidence, 27 contributors |
| 10Bermejo | 48 | 18.8 | — | — | — | 35.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11El Alto | 48 | 18.6 | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 12Trinidad | 41 | — | — | — | — | 84.3K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 13Cobija | 41 | — | — | — | — | 26.6K | Low confidence |
| 14San Ignacio de Velasco | 41 | — | — | — | — | 23.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |