Piles of salt on the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Who needs a visa for Bolivia?

Latin America and the Caribbean · Sucre

Photo: Luca Galuzzi (Lucag), edit by Trialsanderrors / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5

Of 198 nationalities, 60 enter Bolivia with no paperwork at all. The rest: 138 must be approved before they travel.

We have not found a Bolivia government portal we can link to with confidence, so we link to none — a lookalike is worse than nothing. Apply through Bolivia's own immigration service or its embassy.

What do you need?

Who needs what

Visa free 60

Nothing to apply for and nothing to pay before you travel.

eVisa (electronic visa) 138

A real visa application, made online instead of at an embassy. It is assessed, it takes days rather than minutes, and it can be refused.

About Bolivia

Region
South America
Capital
Sucre
Population
12,581,843 2025 · 78th of 197
Size
1,098,581 km² 27th largest of 199
Density
11 per km²
Languages
Aymara, Guaraní, Quechua, Spanish
Currency
Bolivian boliviano BOB
Borders
Argentina Brazil Chile Paraguay Peru

Capital, area, languages and currency from the open country dataset, pulled 21 September 2026. Population from the World Bank, series updated 13 July 2026. Density is calculated from the two figures above.