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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Bolivia was 12,413,315 in 2024 vs 91,567,738 people in Iran in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Bolivia's population is 12,716,350 people compared to 93,020,793 in Iran.

Population statistics:

  • Iran's population is 7.32 times bigger than Bolivia's.
  • Bolivia is ranked the 79th most populous country in the world, while Iran is the 17th.
  • The countries together account for 1.28% of the world: 0.15% for Bolivia vs 1.13% for Iran.
  • For the last 10 years, Bolivia has had an average growth rate of +1.37% per year vs +1.19% in Iran.
  • Since 2005, the population of Bolivia has increased from 9.36M people to 12.7M (35.8% growth), while Iran has grown from 71.8M to 93M (29.5% growth).
  • Bolivia is projected to reach its peak in 2086 at 17.9M people compared to the peak of 102M people in 2053 for Iran.

Bolivia vs Iran: live population counter

Bolivia Iran
Current population
12716350
93020793
Population rank 79/197 17/197
Percent of world population 0.15% 1.13%
One net population change
3.11 minutes
32.9 seconds
One birth every
2.02 minutes
26.9 seconds
One death every
5.99 minutes
1.24 minutes
One migration net change every
2.92 hours
2.76 minutes
Annual migration change -3,000 +190,156
Daily growth/decline +463 +2,627
Annual growth/decline +169,156 +959,031
Annual growth/decline rate +1.38% +1.06%
Population growth rate rank 77/197 100/197

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

Bolivia
Population

Growth rate
Iran
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Bolivia Iran Bolivia Iran
1960 3,702,323 21,470,434 - -
1961 3,778,731 22,125,726 2.06% 3.05%
1962 3,857,493 22,807,907 2.08% 3.08%
1963 3,938,913 23,519,005 2.11% 3.12%
1964 4,022,996 24,262,859 2.13% 3.16%
1965 4,109,796 25,036,978 2.16% 3.19%
1966 4,199,550 25,829,270 2.18% 3.16%
1967 4,292,572 26,628,432 2.22% 3.09%
1968 4,388,944 27,437,391 2.25% 3.04%
1969 4,488,232 28,273,482 2.26% 3.05%
1970 4,590,010 29,145,100 2.27% 3.08%
1971 4,694,342 30,029,071 2.27% 3.03%
1972 4,800,978 30,921,179 2.27% 2.97%
1973 4,910,200 31,839,838 2.27% 2.97%
1974 5,022,475 32,796,463 2.29% 3%
1975 5,137,539 33,802,973 2.29% 3.07%
1976 5,256,496 34,837,271 2.32% 3.06%
1977 5,379,166 35,933,181 2.33% 3.15%
1978 5,504,123 37,126,535 2.32% 3.32%
1979 5,630,849 38,424,952 2.3% 3.5%
1980 5,758,900 39,842,324 2.27% 3.69%
1981 5,888,109 41,989,312 2.24% 5.39%
1982 6,018,088 44,272,141 2.21% 5.44%
1983 6,149,060 46,029,535 2.18% 3.97%
1984 6,281,868 47,793,998 2.16% 3.83%
1985 6,416,185 49,582,289 2.14% 3.74%
1986 6,552,479 51,446,045 2.12% 3.76%
1987 6,692,162 53,323,493 2.13% 3.65%
1988 6,835,508 55,072,694 2.14% 3.28%
1989 6,981,766 56,704,914 2.14% 2.96%
1990 7,130,142 58,380,092 2.13% 2.95%
1991 7,280,289 59,986,931 2.11% 2.75%
1992 7,430,336 61,184,983 2.06% 2%
1993 7,579,195 61,403,543 2% 0.36%
1994 7,727,322 61,520,598 1.95% 0.19%
1995 7,874,676 62,205,567 1.91% 1.11%
1996 8,021,736 62,881,300 1.87% 1.09%
1997 8,167,900 63,639,638 1.82% 1.21%
1998 8,313,394 64,519,859 1.78% 1.38%
1999 8,459,806 65,445,391 1.76% 1.43%
2000 8,606,326 66,418,659 1.73% 1.49%
2001 8,752,736 67,452,005 1.7% 1.56%
2002 8,900,355 68,011,317 1.69% 0.83%
2003 9,050,700 68,769,340 1.69% 1.11%
2004 9,204,287 70,256,316 1.7% 2.16%
2005 9,360,754 71,828,455 1.7% 2.24%
2006 9,521,689 73,392,747 1.72% 2.18%
2007 9,685,960 74,602,648 1.73% 1.65%
2008 9,850,858 75,514,204 1.7% 1.22%
2009 10,016,275 76,457,825 1.68% 1.25%
2010 10,182,345 77,420,842 1.66% 1.26%
2011 10,348,929 78,383,598 1.64% 1.24%
2012 10,515,807 79,370,580 1.61% 1.26%
2013 10,682,608 80,414,686 1.59% 1.32%
2014 10,848,888 81,502,045 1.56% 1.35%
2015 11,014,705 82,619,362 1.53% 1.37%
2016 11,180,020 83,812,228 1.5% 1.44%
2017 11,344,587 85,026,754 1.47% 1.45%
2018 11,508,368 86,117,998 1.44% 1.28%
2019 11,671,386 87,051,648 1.42% 1.08%
2020 11,816,299 87,723,443 1.24% 0.77%
2021 11,937,360 88,455,488 1.02% 0.83%
2022 12,077,154 89,524,246 1.17% 1.21%
2023 12,244,159 90,608,707 1.38% 1.21%
2024 12,413,315 91,567,738 1.38% 1.06%
2025 12,581,842 92,417,685 1.36% 0.93%
2026 12,749,291 93,168,494 1.33% 0.81%
2027 12,915,581 93,838,646 1.3% 0.72%
2028 13,080,490 94,440,024 1.28% 0.64%
2029 13,243,771 94,985,102 1.25% 0.58%
2030 13,405,558 95,486,672 1.22% 0.53%
2031 13,565,504 95,960,723 1.19% 0.5%
2032 13,723,365 96,415,457 1.16% 0.47%
2033 13,879,048 96,850,659 1.13% 0.45%
2034 14,032,573 97,271,044 1.11% 0.43%
2035 14,183,821 97,679,258 1.08% 0.42%
2036 14,332,310 98,075,324 1.05% 0.41%
2037 14,478,101 98,458,805 1.02% 0.39%
2038 14,621,400 98,828,318 0.99% 0.38%
2039 14,761,945 99,182,806 0.96% 0.36%
2040 14,899,391 99,524,286 0.93% 0.34%
2041 15,033,982 99,853,719 0.9% 0.33%
2042 15,165,741 100,167,076 0.88% 0.31%
2043 15,294,503 100,462,092 0.85% 0.29%
2044 15,420,207 100,737,592 0.82% 0.27%
2045 15,542,783 100,990,622 0.79% 0.25%
2046 15,662,310 101,219,689 0.77% 0.23%
2047 15,778,742 101,424,009 0.74% 0.2%
2048 15,892,248 101,601,932 0.72% 0.18%
2049 16,002,807 101,748,544 0.7% 0.14%
2050 16,110,156 101,862,002 0.67% 0.11%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Bolivia increased by 1,653,951 people (a 17.7% growth), while Iran gained 10,790,907 people (a 15% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Bolivia gained 1,701,645 (a 15.4% growth), while Iran's population increased by 10,401,431 (a 12.6% growth).

Bolivia was ranked 83rd most populous country in 2005 and is 79th in 2025. Iran was ranked 17th in 2005 and still ranked 17th 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 Iran will increase by 9.5% to 101,862,002 people and rank change from 17th to 18th.

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