Bolivia recorded its highest poverty rate since 2011 reaching 44.7% in 2025
According to the harmonised ECLAC series started in 1999, the figure rose by 7.1 percentage points from 37.7% in 2024. The last year with an equal or higher record was 2011, when it reached 45.1%.
Current verified finding
Bolivia recorded in 2025 its highest poverty rate since 2011: 44.7%.
Evidence
Bolivia: poverty 1999–2025
The finding preserves the reviewed data even when the source publishes an update.
Snapshot technical details
Query fingerprint: sigev_198329279e34d · The text, result, and records remain fixed to this review.
How we calculated it
We query series poverty_rate_pct of dataset cepal-social-anual (CEPALSTAT) for Bolivia from 1999 to 2025 in VerDat's normalised layer and check that no year after 2011 matches or exceeds the 2025 value. We require at least 15 years of series and a gap of at least 10 years. The chart reproduces the query; the values are re-verified automatically every day.
24 rows match the query; 24 results remain in the summary.
What it means and what it does not
The figures come from ECLAC's harmonised series rather than Bolivia's official national methodology, meaning they may differ from local reports. This indicator shows where the rate stands relative to its own past record, but it does not identify the underlying causes. Furthermore, future revisions to data from earlier years could shift the date of the record.
Every indicator is a rate, index or ratio — compare and rank, never sum. Survey years differ by country; missing years are gaps, not zeros.
Verification
Records within the query
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| Period | Value | Year | Country | Indicator | Indicator group | Month | Frequency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 44.72 | 2025 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2024 | 37.65 | 2024 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2023 | 36.48 | 2023 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2022 | 37.74 | 2022 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2021 | 36.41 | 2021 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2020 | 39.05 | 2020 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2019 | 37.17 | 2019 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2018 | 39.9 | 2018 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2017 | 42.24 | 2017 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2016 | 43 | 2016 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2015 | 38.6 | 2015 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |
| 2014 | 39.1 | 2014 | bolivia | Población en situación de pobreza, cifras nacionales | pobreza | Not applicable (annual) | annual |