Bolivia: Bolivia People Profile 2011

The Bolivian population topped 10 million for the first time in 2010, having doubled in size in the past 34 years. In 2030, the population will reach 13.0 million, this growth will be driven by huge increases in the population aged 40+. Bolivia is undergoing a fast process of urbanisation, but nevertheless has one of the lowest population densities in Latin America.
 

More than 50 per cent of the people are Indians; about 30 per cent are a mixture of Indian and Spanish, called cholos or mestizos; about 15 per cent are white. The Indians are mostly farmers or laborers. Many cholos have joined the whites in commercial and professional work. Spanish, Quechua and Aymará are the primary languages in Bolivia.

Due a continuing migration of the rural poor to the major cities of Bolivia, less than half of the people live in rural areas.

There is freedom of religion. Nearly all of the people are Roman Catholic.