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Bolivia vs Paraguay

120 shared metrics.

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Bolivia

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Identity

Formal name: Plurinational State of Bolivia.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Bolivia's Salar de Uyuni is the world's largest salt flat, and wet season can turn it into a mirror.

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Paraguay

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Paraguay.

CIA 2026

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Paraguay is officially bilingual: Spanish and Guarani both belong on the national language map.

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Analysis

Bolivia and Paraguay are closely matched, each leading in 60 metrics.

Bolivia's Railway Length is 131.0x that of Paraguay (4.0K km vs 30 km).

Bolivia's Capital Elevation is 83.7x that of Paraguay (3.6K m vs 43 m).

Bolivia's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 18.5x that of Paraguay (481.29 gCO2/kWh vs 24.7 gCO2/kWh).

Bolivia's Air Passengers is 12.7x that of Paraguay (5.60M vs 407.9K).

Bolivia's Highest Elevation is 6.8x that of Paraguay (6.5K m vs 842 m).

Key Comparisons

Railway LengthBolivia leads

Bolivia

4.0K km

Paraguay

30 km

Capital ElevationBolivia leads

Bolivia

3.6K m

Paraguay

43 m

Electricity Carbon IntensityBolivia leads

Bolivia

481.29 gCO2/kWh

Paraguay

24.7 gCO2/kWh

Air PassengersBolivia leads

Bolivia

5.60M

Paraguay

407.9K

Highest ElevationBolivia leads

Bolivia

6.5K m

Paraguay

842 m

UNESCO World Heritage SitesBolivia leads

Bolivia

8.0 sites

Paraguay

2.0 sites

All Metrics

Railway Length

Bolivia

4.0K km

Paraguay

30 km

13100% higher

Capital Elevation

Bolivia

3.6K m

Paraguay

43 m

8365% higher

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Bolivia

481.29 gCO2/kWh

Paraguay

24.7 gCO2/kWh

1849% higher

Air Passengers

Bolivia

5.60M

Paraguay

407.9K

1273% higher

Highest Elevation

Bolivia

6.5K m

Paraguay

842 m

677% higher

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Bolivia

8.0 sites

Paraguay

2.0 sites

300% higher

Total CO2 Emissions

Bolivia

28.44 Mt CO2e

Paraguay

8.0 Mt CO2e

254% higher

Forest Area

Bolivia

502.1K km²

Paraguay

152.6K km²

229% higher

Land Area

Bolivia

1.08M km²

Paraguay

396.0K km²

174% higher

Government Debt (% GDP)

Bolivia

49% of GDP

Paraguay

18.9% of GDP

159% higher

Armed Forces Personnel

Bolivia

71.0K

Paraguay

29.0K

145% higher

Education Spending (% GDP)

Bolivia

8.3% of GDP

Paraguay

3.4% of GDP

144% higher

Airports

Bolivia

202

Paraguay

138% higher

Tourism Revenue

Bolivia

$243,000,000

Paraguay

$104,000,000

134% higher

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Bolivia

22.88 µg/m³

Paraguay

10.09 µg/m³

127% higher

Irrigated Land

Bolivia

3.0K km²

Paraguay

1.4K km²

118% higher

Protected Land (%)

Bolivia

30.9%

Paraguay

14.9%

107% higher

CO2 Per Capita

Bolivia

2.3 t/person/yr

Paraguay

1.1 t/person/yr

102% higher

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Bolivia

12% of adults

Paraguay

6.0% of adults

100% higher

Official Languages Count

Bolivia

4.0

Paraguay

2.0

100% higher

Comparison of Bolivia and Paraguay across 120 metrics
				Winner
Railway Length	4.0K km	30 km	13100% higher	Bolivia
Capital Elevation	3.6K m	43 m	8365% higher	Bolivia
Electricity Carbon Intensity	481.29 gCO2/kWh	24.7 gCO2/kWh	1849% higher	Bolivia
Air Passengers	5.60M	407.9K	1273% higher	Bolivia
Highest Elevation	6.5K m	842 m	677% higher	Bolivia
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	8.0 sites	2.0 sites	300% higher	Bolivia
Total CO2 Emissions	28.44 Mt CO2e	8.0 Mt CO2e	254% higher	Bolivia
Forest Area	502.1K km²	152.6K km²	229% higher	Bolivia
Land Area	1.08M km²	396.0K km²	174% higher	Bolivia
Government Debt (% GDP)	49% of GDP	18.9% of GDP	159% higher	Bolivia
Armed Forces Personnel	71.0K	29.0K	145% higher	Bolivia
Education Spending (% GDP)	8.3% of GDP	3.4% of GDP	144% higher	Bolivia
Airports	202	85	138% higher	Bolivia
Tourism Revenue	$243,000,000	$104,000,000	134% higher	Bolivia
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	22.88 µg/m³	10.09 µg/m³	127% higher	Bolivia
Irrigated Land	3.0K km²	1.4K km²	118% higher	Bolivia
Protected Land (%)	30.9%	14.9%	107% higher	Bolivia
CO2 Per Capita	2.3 t/person/yr	1.1 t/person/yr	102% higher	Bolivia
Tobacco Use Prevalence	12% of adults	6.0% of adults	100% higher	Bolivia
Official Languages Count	4.0	2.0	100% higher	Bolivia
Lowest Elevation	90 m	46 m	96% higher	Bolivia
Water Stress (%)	0.12%	2.1%	94% lower	Paraguay
Women in Parliament (%)	46.15%	23.75%	94% higher	Bolivia
Water Withdrawal	0.36 B m³	2.4 B m³	85% lower	Paraguay
Firms Making Informal Payments	22.45% of firms	12.54% of firms	79% higher	Bolivia
Renewable Energy (%)	12.8%	58.8%	78% lower	Paraguay
Spirits Consumption	0.46 L/person/yr	1.8 L/person/yr	75% lower	Paraguay
Electricity Generation	12.35 TWh	44.24 TWh	72% lower	Paraguay
Tourist Arrivals	323.3K	1.08M	70% lower	Paraguay
Doctors (per 1,000)	1.3 per 1k	3.9 per 1k	67% lower	Paraguay
Border Neighbors	5.0	3.0	67% higher	Bolivia
Population	12.44M	7.60M	64% higher	Bolivia
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	859.31 kWh/person	2.4K kWh/person	64% lower	Paraguay
Firms with Female Top Manager	31.1% of firms	19.06% of firms	63% higher	Bolivia
Youth Unemployment Rate	5.0% of youth labor force	11.69% of youth labor force	57% lower	Paraguay
Firms Hit by Power Outages	32.43% of firms	75.65% of firms	57% lower	Paraguay
Land Border Length	7.3K km	4.7K km	56% higher	Bolivia
Merchant Fleet Size	50	108	54% lower	Paraguay
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.10 per 100k people	0.21 per 100k people	54% lower	Paraguay
Researchers	63.06 per 1M	133.2 per 1M	53% lower	Paraguay
Hypertension Prevalence	27.9% of adults	56.6% of adults	51% lower	Paraguay
Electric Generating Capacity	4.38M kW	8.93M kW	51% lower	Paraguay
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	15 days/yr	10 days/yr	50% higher	Bolivia
Domestic Patents	5.0	10	50% lower	Paraguay
Unemployment Rate	3.1%	6.1%	49% lower	Paraguay
Vehicles per 1,000 People	153.04 per 1k people	299.55 per 1k people	49% lower	Paraguay
Military Spending	1.4% of GDP	0.93% of GDP	47% higher	Bolivia
Mobile Money Accounts	19.98% of adults	35.95% of adults	44% lower	Paraguay
Exports (% GDP)	21.44% of GDP	37.2% of GDP	42% lower	Paraguay
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	0.53% of GDP	0.90% of GDP	41% lower	Paraguay
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.4 per 1k	1.0 per 1k	40% higher	Bolivia
Milk Consumption per Person	46.04 kg/person/yr	75.72 kg/person/yr	39% lower	Paraguay
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	40.13 per 100k	28.78 per 100k	39% higher	Bolivia
Insufficient Physical Activity	21.86% of adults	35.96% of adults	39% lower	Paraguay
Seafood Consumption per Person	2.7 kg/person/yr	4.3 kg/person/yr	37% lower	Paraguay
Foreign Patents	227	354	36% lower	Paraguay
Child Mortality	23.1 per 1k births	17 per 1k births	36% higher	Bolivia
Imports (% GDP)	25.54% of GDP	39.63% of GDP	36% lower	Paraguay
Alcohol Consumption	3.6 L/adult/yr	5.6 L/adult/yr	36% lower	Paraguay
Health Spending Per Capita	$307.14	$480.19	36% lower	Paraguay
Population Density	11.3 /km²	17.28 /km²	35% lower	Paraguay
Homicide Rate	4.4 per 100k	6.8 per 100k	35% lower	Paraguay
Agricultural Land (%)	35.83%	54.11%	34% lower	Paraguay
Inflation Rate	5.1%	3.8%	34% higher	Bolivia
GNI Per Capita	$4,160	$6,300	34% lower	Paraguay
Suicide Rate	4.2 per 100k	6.4 per 100k	34% lower	Paraguay
Beer Consumption	1.9 L/person/yr	2.8 L/person/yr	32% lower	Paraguay
Meat Consumption per Person	71.4 kg/person/yr	54.07 kg/person/yr	32% higher	Bolivia
Infant Mortality	20 per 1k births	15.1 per 1k births	32% higher	Bolivia
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$12,877.64	$18,523.68	30% lower	Paraguay
Informal Employment Share	83.88% of employed people	64.46% of employed people	30% higher	Bolivia
Women's Political Empowerment	0.84	0.67	26% higher	Bolivia
Sanitation Access (%)	71.58%	95.93%	25% lower	Paraguay
Energy Use (Per Capita)	798.29 kg oil eq/person	1.0K kg oil eq/person	24% lower	Paraguay
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	98 per 100 people	127 per 100 people	23% lower	Paraguay
GDP (Nominal)	$54,881,327,452.97	$44,458,118,397.44	23% higher	Bolivia
Death Rate	6.0 per 1k	5.0 per 1k	21% higher	Bolivia
Digital Payments Used	43.64% of adults	55.47% of adults	21% lower	Paraguay
Forest Coverage (%)	46.35%	38.54%	20% higher	Bolivia
Corruption Perceptions Index	28 pts	24 pts	17% higher	Bolivia
Smoking Rate	12.4%	10.7%	16% higher	Bolivia
High-Tech Exports (%)	8.8%	10.5%	16% lower	Paraguay
Road Traffic Death Rate	17.6 per 100k	21 per 100k	16% lower	Paraguay
Broadband Access (%)	11 per 100 people	13 per 100 people	15% lower	Paraguay
Internet Users (%)	70%	81.58%	14% lower	Paraguay
Elderly Population (%)	5.6%	6.5%	14% lower	Paraguay
Credit Card Ownership	11.32% of adults	9.9% of adults	14% higher	Bolivia
Obesity Rate	27.8%	32.08%	13% lower	Paraguay
Fertility Rate	2.1 children/woman	1.9 children/woman	13% higher	Bolivia
Can Raise Emergency Money	89.54% of adults	80.26% of adults	12% higher	Bolivia
Average Weekly Work Hours	37.52 hrs/week	41.79 hrs/week	10% lower	Paraguay
Scientific Publications	188.02	208.68	10% lower	Paraguay
Birth Rate	17.02 per 1k	15.66 per 1k	9% higher	Bolivia
Firms Asked for Bribes	14.56% of firms	16.08% of firms	9% lower	Paraguay
Health Spending (% GDP)	8.4% of GDP	7.7% of GDP	9% higher	Bolivia
Freedom of Expression Index	0.68	0.75	9% lower	Paraguay
Teen Birth Rate	64.85 per 1k	70.33 per 1k	8% lower	Paraguay
Life Expectancy	68.6 years	73.8 years	7% lower	Paraguay
Liberal Democracy Index	0.35	0.38	6% lower	Paraguay
Median Age	24.7 years	26.3 years	6% lower	Paraguay
Life Evaluation Score	5.8 pts	6.2 pts	6% lower	Paraguay
Political Corruption Index	0.76	0.80	5% lower	Paraguay
Inequality (Gini)	42.1	44.2	5% lower	Paraguay
Electoral Democracy Index	0.60	0.58	4% higher	Bolivia
Youth Population (%)	29.79%	28.59%	4% higher	Bolivia
Food Waste per Person	151.19 kg/person/yr	157.87 kg/person/yr	4% lower	Paraguay
Human Development Index	0.73	0.76	3% lower	Paraguay
Urban Population (%)	71.24%	69.86%	2% higher	Bolivia
Dependency Ratio	54.87% of working-age pop.	54.14% of working-age pop.	1% higher	Bolivia
Adult Literacy Rate	95.55%	94.86%	1% higher	Bolivia
Time Zones Count	3.0 time zones	3.0 time zones	equal	Bolivia
Coastline Length	0 km	0 km	ranked higher	Bolivia
Coal Electricity Share	0%	0%	ranked higher	Bolivia
Wind Electricity Share	2.0%	0%	ranked higher	Bolivia
Solar Electricity Share	2.9%	0%	ranked higher	Bolivia
Electricity Access (%)	99.8%	99.8%	equal	Bolivia
GDP Growth Rate	-1.12%	4.3%	ranked lower	Paraguay
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0 per 1M people	ranked higher	Bolivia
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-1.9% of GDP	-3.5% of GDP	ranked higher	Bolivia
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	2.0 per 1M people	ranked lower	Paraguay

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Analysis

Bolivia and Paraguay are closely matched, each leading in 60 metrics.

Bolivia's Railway Length is 131.0x that of Paraguay (4.0K km vs 30 km).

Bolivia's Capital Elevation is 83.7x that of Paraguay (3.6K m vs 43 m).

Bolivia's Electricity Carbon Intensity is 18.5x that of Paraguay (481.29 gCO2/kWh vs 24.7 gCO2/kWh).

Bolivia's Air Passengers is 12.7x that of Paraguay (5.60M vs 407.9K).

Bolivia's Highest Elevation is 6.8x that of Paraguay (6.5K m vs 842 m).

Key Comparisons

Railway LengthBolivia leads

Bolivia

4.0K km

Paraguay

30 km

Capital ElevationBolivia leads

Bolivia

3.6K m

Paraguay

43 m

Electricity Carbon IntensityBolivia leads

Bolivia

481.29 gCO2/kWh

Paraguay

24.7 gCO2/kWh

Air PassengersBolivia leads

Bolivia

5.60M

Paraguay

407.9K

Highest ElevationBolivia leads

Bolivia

6.5K m

Paraguay

842 m

UNESCO World Heritage SitesBolivia leads

Bolivia

8.0 sites

Paraguay

2.0 sites

Railway Length

4.0K km

30 km

Capital Elevation

3.6K m

43 m

Electricity Carbon Intensity

481.29 gCO2/kWh

24.7 gCO2/kWh

Air Passengers

5.60M

407.9K

Highest Elevation

6.5K m

842 m

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

8.0 sites

2.0 sites

Total CO2 Emissions

28.44 Mt CO2e

8.0 Mt CO2e

Forest Area

502.1K km²

152.6K km²

Land Area

1.08M km²

396.0K km²

Government Debt (% GDP)

49% of GDP

18.9% of GDP

Armed Forces Personnel

71.0K

29.0K

Education Spending (% GDP)

8.3% of GDP

3.4% of GDP

Airports

202

Tourism Revenue

$243,000,000

$104,000,000

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

22.88 µg/m³

10.09 µg/m³

Irrigated Land

3.0K km²

1.4K km²

Protected Land (%)

30.9%

14.9%

CO2 Per Capita

2.3 t/person/yr

1.1 t/person/yr

Tobacco Use Prevalence

12% of adults

6.0% of adults

Official Languages Count

4.0

2.0

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Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Railway Length

Capital Elevation

Electricity Carbon Intensity

Air Passengers

Highest Elevation

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Total CO2 Emissions

Forest Area

Land Area

Government Debt (% GDP)

Armed Forces Personnel

Education Spending (% GDP)

Airports

Tourism Revenue

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Irrigated Land

Protected Land (%)

CO2 Per Capita

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Official Languages Count

Lowest Elevation

Water Stress (%)

Women in Parliament (%)

Water Withdrawal

Firms Making Informal Payments

Renewable Energy (%)

Spirits Consumption

Electricity Generation

Tourist Arrivals

Doctors (per 1,000)

Border Neighbors

Population

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Firms with Female Top Manager

Youth Unemployment Rate

Firms Hit by Power Outages

Land Border Length

Merchant Fleet Size

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Researchers

Hypertension Prevalence

Electric Generating Capacity

Minimum Paid Vacation Days

Domestic Patents

Unemployment Rate

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Military Spending

Mobile Money Accounts

Exports (% GDP)

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Hospital Beds (per 1,000)

Milk Consumption per Person

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Insufficient Physical Activity

Seafood Consumption per Person

Foreign Patents

Child Mortality

Imports (% GDP)

Alcohol Consumption

Health Spending Per Capita

Population Density

Homicide Rate

Agricultural Land (%)

Inflation Rate

GNI Per Capita

Suicide Rate

Beer Consumption

Meat Consumption per Person

Infant Mortality

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Informal Employment Share

Women's Political Empowerment