Bolivia ranks in the top ten producers of 10 commodities: quinoa (#2, 30% of world output in 2024), antimony (#4, 4.5% of world output in 2025), silver (#4, 5.8% of world output in 2025), bismuth (#6, 0.3% of world output in 2025), tin (#6, 5.2% of world output in 2025), tungsten (#6, 2% of world output in 2025) and more. It is a top-ten exporter of tungsten (#1, 15% of world export value in 2024), quinoa (#2, 29% of world export value in 2024), tin (#3, 11% of world export value in 2024), antimony (#4, 9.4% of world export value in 2024), lithium (#9, 0.4% of world export value in 2024).
Share of world production, 2024. Countries with no reported production are unshaded.
Bolivia's largest commodity exports by value. Each bar's share is that commodity's share of world trade in it, not its share of Bolivia's own exports — the two are unrelated and shown so a bar near 100% marks a commodity Bolivia dominates globally rather than one it merely exports a lot of.
Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Bolivia's own $1.7 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Tin alone is 42% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Bolivia compares with other countries.
Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.
Bolivia commodity by commodity
One page for each commodity where Bolivia is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.
What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Bolivia, computed from the same data as this page.
What Bolivia uses
Bolivia had about 12 million people and a food supply of 2,374 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:
Largest domestic supplies of tracked commodities in Bolivia, 2023
FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.
How long Bolivia's own reserves would last
Silver: Bolivia's reserves are about 15 years of its own output at the current rate (5.8% of world output, 3.6% of world reserves), against 23 years for the world.
Tin: Bolivia's reserves are about 27 years of its own output at the current rate (5.2% of world output, 6.7% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.
Antimony: Bolivia's reserves are about 62 years of its own output at the current rate (4.5% of world output, 13% of world reserves), against 22 years for the world.
Lead: Bolivia's reserves are about 16 years of its own output at the current rate (2.2% of world output, 1.7% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.
USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.
Downloads and citation
This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Bolivia produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/BOL/ (CC BY 4.0).
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