La Paz — UN urban centre
La Paz: 2,024,413 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #244 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 197; territory: Bolivia (BOL). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: -16.5164, -68.155. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 753,225 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 856,658 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 979,632 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 1,118,778 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 1,292,622 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 1,451,665 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 1,605,036 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 1,702,599 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 1,800,107 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 1,941,743 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 2,024,413 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 2,112,629 | Projection |
| 2035 | 2,182,795 | Projection |
| 2040 | 2,246,298 | Projection |
| 2045 | 2,300,775 | Projection |
| 2050 | 2,333,217 | Projection |
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