Population in Bolivia compared to Colombia: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Bolivia and Colombia: population history and growth rate by year chart

Table

Year	Population		Growth rate
	Bolivia	Colombia	Bolivia	Colombia
1960	3,702,323	15,606,209	-	-
1961	3,778,731	16,095,203	2.06%	3.13%
1962	3,857,493	16,599,029	2.08%	3.13%
1963	3,938,913	17,113,823	2.11%	3.1%
1964	4,022,996	17,637,411	2.13%	3.06%
1965	4,109,796	18,169,050	2.16%	3.01%
1966	4,199,550	18,702,688	2.18%	2.94%
1967	4,292,572	19,235,618	2.22%	2.85%
1968	4,388,944	19,766,796	2.25%	2.76%
1969	4,488,232	20,291,942	2.26%	2.66%
1970	4,590,010	20,811,782	2.27%	2.56%
1971	4,694,342	21,319,096	2.27%	2.44%
1972	4,800,978	21,819,563	2.27%	2.35%
1973	4,910,200	22,325,374	2.27%	2.32%
1974	5,022,475	22,833,469	2.29%	2.28%
1975	5,137,539	23,344,644	2.29%	2.24%
1976	5,256,496	23,858,810	2.32%	2.2%
1977	5,379,166	24,393,494	2.33%	2.24%
1978	5,504,123	24,950,337	2.32%	2.28%
1979	5,630,849	25,515,626	2.3%	2.27%
1980	5,758,900	26,104,498	2.27%	2.31%
1981	5,888,109	26,713,267	2.24%	2.33%
1982	6,018,088	27,338,331	2.21%	2.34%
1983	6,149,060	27,988,173	2.18%	2.38%
1984	6,281,868	28,642,690	2.16%	2.34%
1985	6,416,185	29,268,470	2.14%	2.18%
1986	6,552,479	29,879,112	2.12%	2.09%
1987	6,692,162	30,499,467	2.13%	2.08%
1988	6,835,508	31,130,524	2.14%	2.07%
1989	6,981,766	31,776,279	2.14%	2.07%
1990	7,130,142	32,440,069	2.13%	2.09%
1991	7,280,289	33,098,372	2.11%	2.03%
1992	7,430,336	33,760,571	2.06%	2%
1993	7,579,195	34,441,473	2%	2.02%
1994	7,727,322	35,127,410	1.95%	1.99%
1995	7,874,676	35,804,662	1.91%	1.93%
1996	8,021,736	36,462,745	1.87%	1.84%
1997	8,167,900	37,121,149	1.82%	1.81%
1998	8,313,394	37,792,165	1.78%	1.81%
1999	8,459,806	38,454,863	1.76%	1.75%
2000	8,606,326	39,089,934	1.73%	1.65%
2001	8,752,736	39,709,262	1.7%	1.58%
2002	8,900,355	40,324,680	1.69%	1.55%
2003	9,050,700	40,937,429	1.69%	1.52%
2004	9,204,287	41,543,171	1.7%	1.48%
2005	9,360,754	42,128,977	1.7%	1.41%
2006	9,521,689	42,691,084	1.72%	1.33%
2007	9,685,960	43,235,374	1.73%	1.27%
2008	9,850,858	43,758,808	1.7%	1.21%
2009	10,016,275	44,271,541	1.68%	1.17%
2010	10,182,345	44,777,319	1.66%	1.14%
2011	10,348,929	45,259,614	1.64%	1.08%
2012	10,515,807	45,715,810	1.61%	1.01%
2013	10,682,608	46,151,584	1.59%	0.95%
2014	10,848,888	46,565,429	1.56%	0.9%
2015	11,014,705	46,969,940	1.53%	0.87%
2016	11,180,020	47,437,512	1.5%	1%
2017	11,344,587	48,131,078	1.47%	1.46%
2018	11,508,368	49,024,465	1.44%	1.86%
2019	11,671,386	49,907,985	1.42%	1.8%
2020	11,816,299	50,629,997	1.24%	1.45%
2021	11,937,360	51,188,173	1.02%	1.1%
2022	12,077,154	51,737,944	1.17%	1.07%
2023	12,244,159	52,321,152	1.38%	1.13%
2024	12,413,315	52,886,363	1.38%	1.08%
2025	12,581,842	53,425,632	1.36%	1.02%
2026	12,749,291	53,936,234	1.33%	0.96%
2027	12,915,581	54,422,275	1.3%	0.9%
2028	13,080,490	54,885,123	1.28%	0.85%
2029	13,243,771	55,322,627	1.25%	0.8%
2030	13,405,558	55,736,477	1.22%	0.75%
2031	13,565,504	56,125,966	1.19%	0.7%
2032	13,723,365	56,490,496	1.16%	0.65%
2033	13,879,048	56,832,264	1.13%	0.61%
2034	14,032,573	57,151,619	1.11%	0.56%
2035	14,183,821	57,445,755	1.08%	0.51%
2036	14,332,310	57,716,869	1.05%	0.47%
2037	14,478,101	57,965,300	1.02%	0.43%
2038	14,621,400	58,190,082	0.99%	0.39%
2039	14,761,945	58,394,310	0.96%	0.35%
2040	14,899,391	58,576,452	0.93%	0.31%
2041	15,033,982	58,736,886	0.9%	0.27%
2042	15,165,741	58,878,126	0.88%	0.24%
2043	15,294,503	59,000,362	0.85%	0.21%
2044	15,420,207	59,104,592	0.82%	0.18%
2045	15,542,783	59,190,826	0.79%	0.15%
2046	15,662,310	59,259,758	0.77%	0.12%
2047	15,778,742	59,313,132	0.74%	0.09%
2048	15,892,248	59,351,262	0.72%	0.06%
2049	16,002,807	59,375,012	0.7%	0.04%
2050	16,110,156	59,385,355	0.67%	0.02%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bolivia increased by 1,653,951 people (a 17.7% growth), while Colombia gained 4,840,963 people (a 11.5% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bolivia gained 1,701,645 (a 15.4% growth), while Colombia's population increased by 6,865,847 (a 14.6% growth).

Bolivia was ranked 83rd most populous country in 2005 and is 79th in 2025. Colombia was ranked 29th in 2005 and ranked 28th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Bolivia's population will grow by 26.7% to 16,110,156 people with a rank change from 79th to 80th. The population of Colombia will increase by 10.3% to 59,385,355 people and rank change from 28th to 34th.