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Bolivia

The latest open data on emissions, energy and forests, compared with ten years earlier and with the world average.

In 2024, 2.3 tonnes of CO₂ per person were emitted on average, from fossil fuels and industry. The world average is 4.7.

Compared with 2014, the value has risen by 26%.

34% of electricity comes from renewables and nuclear (2024).

Forests cover 46.3% of the land (2023).

From 2001 to 2025, trees disappeared from 10,543,891 hectares: 16.3% of the area that was tree-covered in 2000.

In 2025, 622,093 hectares of old tropical forest were lost.

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All indicators

Latest available value, ten-year change (green if it moves in the direction that lightens the load on the planet, red if the opposite) and the world average in the same year.

IndicatorLatest valueIn 10 yearsWorldSince 1990
Climate
CO₂ per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year2.312024+0.484.73
Consumption-based CO₂ per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year2.092023+0.364.71
Greenhouse gases per person (incl. land use)tonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person (all greenhouse gases converted to CO₂)12.892024+2.206.67
Methane per persontonnes of CO₂ equivalent per person2.222024+0.041.16
CO₂ from deforestation and land use per persontonnes of CO₂ per person per year8.942024+2.570.56
Share of historical CO₂ emissions% of all CO₂ emitted worldwide since 17500.042024+0.01100.00
CO₂ imported (+) or exported (−) in goods% of the country's emissions4.12023+0.40.0
CO₂ per unit of GDPkg of CO₂ per dollar of wealth produced0.3002022−0.0070.288
CO₂ per km² of territorytonnes of CO₂ per km² per year262024+8—
Energy
Primary energy per personkWh of energy per person per year8,5992023+1,16021,286
Electricity
Renewable share of electricity%34.02024+5.331.9
Low-carbon electricity (renewables and nuclear)%34.02024+5.340.9
Solar share of electricity%3.02024+2.96.9
Wind share of electricity%3.52024+3.48.1
Coal share of electricity%0.020240.034.1
Carbon intensity of electricitygrams of CO₂ equivalent per kWh of electricity4952024−35471
Green
Forest cover% of land covered by forest46.32023−2.1—

Trees and forests

Hectares where trees were cut or burned each year (areas with at least 30% canopy), from 2001 to 2025.

2001: 140,210 ha2002: 178,694 ha2003: 163,718 ha2004: 203,307 ha2005: 250,866 ha2006: 216,346 ha2007: 189,943 ha2008: 369,894 ha2009: 225,346 ha2010: 451,722 ha2011: 330,358 ha2012: 273,562 ha2013: 179,794 ha2014: 256,528 ha2015: 166,251 ha2016: 470,310 ha2017: 462,949 ha2018: 301,918 ha2019: 853,556 ha2020: 428,903 ha2021: 559,589 ha2022: 594,998 ha2023: 696,297 ha2024: 1,813,613 ha2025: 765,219 ha
20011,813,613 ha max2025

On average, from 2001 to 2025, the country's forests removed 176.8 million tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year and released 162.2 through logging and fires.

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Sources: Global Carbon Project, Energy Institute and Ember (via Our World in Data), FAO (via the World Bank), Global Forest Watch (University of Maryland and World Resources Institute). Details on the data page. Data