GeoDevelopment Observatory of Bolivia / Indicators
Population
Two decades of gridded population estimates and population density for every municipality: the denominator for per-capita indicators and population-weighted averages.
Annual population estimates for Bolivia’s 339 municipalities from 2001 to 2020, computed by summing WorldPop’s 1 km gridded population over each municipality, and the population density (people per km²) of each municipality. Population sums up the hierarchy, so it gives provincial, departmental and national totals directly, and it is the weight for population-weighted averages of rates such as poverty. These are gridded estimates, not INE’s official projections.
Variables of pop
pop: Population. Estimated number of people living in the municipality: the sum over its polygon of the WorldPop unconstrained global population mosaic at 1 km (aggregated from 100 m random-forest dasymetric estimates; not UN-adjusted), extracted with AidData GeoQuery. Gridded estimates, not INE's official projections.pop_density: Population density (people per km²). Population (pop) divided by the municipality's area in km², measured on its geoBoundaries boundary (geo/boundaries/) in the project's equal-area projection (an Albers projection fitted to Bolivia). The salt flats and lakes that lie outside every municipality (Uyuni, Coipasa, Poopó, Uru Uru) are not counted.
Sources
- WorldPop & CIESIN (2018). Global High Resolution Population Denominators Project (1 km aggregated, 2000–2020). University of Southampton and Columbia University. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1134076). https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/WP00647
- Goodman, S., BenYishay, A., Lv, Z., & Runfola, D. (2019). GeoQuery: Integrating HPC systems and public web-based geospatial data tools. Computers & Geosciences, 122, 103–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2018.10.009
- Runfola, D., Anderson, A., Baier, H., et al. (2020). geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE, 15(4), e0231866. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
- Runfola, D., et al. (2020). geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries. PLoS ONE 15(4): e0231866. Bolivia ADM3 (gbOpen, commit 9469f09), from GeoBolivia. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231866
- Mendez, C., Gonzales, E., Leoni, P., Andersen, L., & Peralta, H. (2026). DS4Bolivia: A Data Science Repository to Study GeoSpatial Development in Bolivia [Data set]. GitHub. https://github.com/quarcs-lab/ds4bolivia