Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Bolivia, Plurinational State of Bolivia, Plurinational State of GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
39 381 3 496 -2.5 875 25.0
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
95 71 129 103
Imports
109 84 107 81
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f.
Annual percentage change
2020 7 015 7 080
2010-2020 1 2
2020 0.04
Share in world total imports (%)
Share in world total exports (%)
2019 -2 -2
2020 -20 -28 2020 0.04
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 14.8
Fuels and mining products: 60.7
Agricultural products: 8.2
Fuels and mining products: 17.7
Manufactures: 4.7
Other: 19.8
Manufactures: 73.8
Other: 0.3
By main destination, % (2020)
By main origin, % (2020)
Brazil: 15.9
Argentina: 14.6
India: 10.2
European Union: 9.1
Japan: 7.5
Other: 42.6
China: 22.3 Argentina: 10.1 United States of America: 8
Brazil: 16.9 European Union: 9.4 Other: 33.3
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS2304 HS1507 HS0801 HS1008 HS1512
2020 . 491 260 127 93 71
Solid residues from soya-bean oil Soya-bean oil and its fractions Coconuts, Brazil nuts, cashew nuts Buckwheat, millet and canary seed Sunflower-seed,or cotton oil
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS1101 HS2106 HS2309 HS1901 HS1001
2020
Wheat or meslin flour Other food preparations Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding Malt extract Wheat and meslin
127 98 52 42 26
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS2304
HS1101
HS1507
HS2106
HS0801
HS2309
HS1008
HS1901
HS1512
HS1001
10%
20%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 1 491 779
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 3 6
2019 -10 -3
2020 13 3
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS2711 HS7108 HS2608 HS2616 HS8001
2020
Petroleum gases Gold Zinc ores and concentrates Precious metal ores and concentrate Unwrought tin
2 017 1 230 820 487 177
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS2710 HS8703 HS3808 HS3004 HS7214
2020
Petroleum oils, other than crude Motor cars for transport of persons Insecticides, rodenticides Medicaments in measured doses Other iron bar not further worked
912 273 222 170 152
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
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20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS2711
HS2710
HS7108
HS8703
HS2608
HS3808
HS2616
HS3004
HS8001
HS7214
10%
20%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 5 541 6 333
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 -1 2
2019 -1 -2
2020 -27 -30
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Bolivia, Plurinational State of TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
603 1 743 2020 0.01
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
-1 -6
-58 -39
-1 4
2020 0.04
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 51.6 Other commercial services: 13.5
Travel: 32.7 Goods-related services: 2.1
Transport: 29.9 Other commercial services: 43.3
By main destination
Travel: 14.8 Goods-related services: 12
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Bolivia
800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0
2010
2013
World
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
2020 311 520
Exports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
Value 0 56 253
2010-2020 16 1
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2019 2 4
Imports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
0.0 17.8 81.3
2020 -31 -34
Value
Share (%)
208 90 216
40.0 17.3 41.6
Travel Bolivia
300
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
200 100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 197 259
2010-2020 -4 -2
Annual percentage change 2019 3 8
2020 -76 -72
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2020) 7.9
ICTs 8.8
17.4
65.8
Other business services Intellectual property
Value
Other commercial services Exports Imports Goods-related services Exports Imports a
Other
2020
2010-2020
82 755
Annual percentage change
-6 8
2019
2020
-19 -10
-30 -9
2020
2010-2020
2019
2020
13 209
-22 na
-60 -41
8 -30
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2017 Residents
59
Non-residents
277
Trademark applications, 2017 Total
336
Residents
3 491
Non-residents
4 713
Industrial design applications, 2017 Total
8 204
Residents
16
Non-residents
43
Total
59
a Break in series: 2014.
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