Bolivia

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Basic Country Information

Region: Latin America & Caribbean
Income Group: Lower Middle Income
Population: 12.41 million
GNI per Capita: 4001 USD
Urban population: 72% of total
Life expectancy at birth: 69 years
Human Development Index (HDI): 0.73

How does Bolivia control corruption?

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

	Integrity	Transparency
Country’s Score	4.06/10	10/20
World Rank	103/119	97/143
Regional Rank	18/23	17/23
Income group Rank	27/36	20/36

Index of Public Integrity

IPI Score: 4.06 / 10

The IPI score is the mean of the six components scores, which result from the standardization and normalization of original source data to range between 1 and 10 using a min-max-transformation, with higher values representing better performance.

Components	Component Score (max=10)	World Rank	Income Group Rank	Regional Rank
Opportunities for Corruption
Administrative Burden	0	/119	/36	/23
Trade Openness	0	/119	/36	/23
Administrative Transparency	5.5	67/119	10/36	12/23
Online Services	5.81	79/119	11/36	14/23
Budget Transparency	1.64	108/119	31/36	18/23
Constraints on Corruption
Judicial Independence	1	119/119	33/36	19/23
Freedom of the Press	5.26	67/119	9/36	10/23
E-Citizenship	5.14	77/119	9/36	14/23

Opportunities are permanent enabling circumstances for corruption. Empirical evidence exists that administrative discretion (lack of administrative transparency and poor regulation) combined with unaccountable resources (non-transparent public finance, both from domestic sources and international aid) create opportunities for corruption.

Constraints are permanent disabling circumstances of corruption. They encompass the legal response of authorities as well as the response by society (a free press and digitally enabled citizens organized as civil society or as individual voters).

Societies manage to control corruption if they find the right balance between opportunities and constraints.

Transparency in Bolivia

T-Index Score: 10 / 20 (20 = 100%)

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The total fulfillment of items on De Jure and De Facto adds up to 100%
on the basis of which we calculate the individual performance of a country

De Facto Transparency: 6 / 14

De Facto Components ↓ Live, online, and freely accessible sources of public data. These data sources were assessed as complete and freely available (1 point), partial and/or paid access (0.5 point), or missing (0 points).
Past expenditures (last fiscal year)	Partial
Current expenditures (budget tracker)	No
Public Procurement Portal	Partial
Land cadaster	No
Register of commerce	Partial
Auditor General's report	Yes
Supreme Court's hearings schedule	No
Supreme Court's rulings	Yes
Financial disclosures for public officials	Partial
Conflict of interest disclosures	No
Official Development Assistance (ODA)	Yes
Mining concessions	No
Building permits in the capital city	No
Official gazette	Yes

De Jure Transparency: 4 / 6

De Jure Components ↓ Formal transparency commitments by governments. Formal agreements that met category criteria (see Methodology) were assessed as existing (1 point) or not (0 points).
Freedom of Information Acts (FOIA)	Yes
Open Government Partnership (OGP)	No
United Nations Conventions Against Corruption (UNCAC)	Yes
Financial Action Task Force Against Money Laundering (or equivalent)	Yes
Plurinational transparency agreement (EITI, OECD, WTO GPA, or CPTPP)	No
Beneficial Ownership	Yes

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Bolivia's Corruption Forecast

Forecasted trend:

Stationary

Bolivia has been regressing over the past decade, especially on judicial independence. With a score of 4 (in a 1–10 scale) in the Index of Public Integrity, Bolivia has one of the largest gaps in the world between demand for good governance, as proxied by the growing number of educated, digitally literate people, and the quality of governance actually delivered. It ranks 104th in the world in IPI 2025. The government needs to publish online all of its concessions, public contracts, building permits, land cadaster, and conflicts of interest of its officials. But most importantly, it needs to stop using the judiciary against political opponents.

Components	2015	2025	Trendline
Budget Transparency	0	1.18		0
Judicial Independence	4.44	1		-1
Press Freedom	7	5.56		-1
E-Citizenship	2.76	5.15		1
Online Services	4.99	5.81		0

positive change; negative change; change not statically significant.

For Budget Transparency, period considered is 2008-2019. For Judicial Independence, last value available is for 2019. For Press Freedom, period considered is 2007-2017. Due to insufficient data on Facebook users, E-citizenship was computed as the mean of the remaining two sub-indicators (fixed broadband subscriptions and Internet users).