Bolivia Energy - 2023

GEOGRAPHICAL NAMES 

Electricity access

electrification - total population: 98.5% (2021)

electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)

electrification - rural areas: 95.1% (2021)

Electricity

installed generating capacity: 3.834 million kW (2020 est.)

consumption: 8,756,690,000 kWh (2019 est.)

exports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

imports: 0 kWh (2019 est.)

transmission/distribution losses: 1.227 billion kWh (2019 est.)

comparison rankings: installed generating capacity 98; consumption 105; exports 106; imports 126; transmission/distribution losses 105

Electricity generation sources

fossil fuels: 64.4% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

nuclear: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

solar: 2.6% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

wind: 0.7% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

hydroelectricity: 30.5% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

tide and wave: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

geothermal: 0% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

biomass and waste: 1.8% of total installed capacity (2020 est.)

Coal

production: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

consumption: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

exports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

imports: 0 metric tons (2020 est.)

proven reserves: 1 million metric tons (2019 est.)

Petroleum

total petroleum production: 65,400 bbl/day (2021 est.)

refined petroleum consumption: 87,800 bbl/day (2019 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate exports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil and lease condensate imports: 0 bbl/day (2018 est.)

crude oil estimated reserves: 240.9 million barrels (2021 est.)

Refined petroleum products - production

65,960 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - exports

9,686 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Refined petroleum products - imports

20,620 bbl/day (2015 est.)

Natural gas

production: 15,328,422,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

consumption: 2,918,839,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

exports: 11,818,215,000 cubic meters (2019 est.)

imports: 0 cubic meters (2021 est.)

proven reserves: 302.99 billion cubic meters (2021 est.)

Carbon dioxide emissions

17.786 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from coal and metallurgical coke: 0 metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from petroleum and other liquids: 12.071 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

from consumed natural gas: 5.715 million metric tonnes of CO2 (2019 est.)

Energy consumption per capita

27.094 million Btu/person (2019 est.)

NOTE: The information regarding Bolivia on this page is re-published from the 2023 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency and other sources. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Bolivia 2023 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Bolivia 2023 should be addressed to the CIA or the source cited on each page.