Bolivians

Bolivians
Bolivianos

Bolivians in World map
Total population
c. 13.2 million Diaspora 1.4 million
Regions with significant populations
Bolivia 11 million
Argentina	~1,000,000–2,000,000[1]
Brazil	350,000-600,000[2]
Spain	179,571–239,000[3][4] (not including the naturalized, nor their descendants).[5]
Chile	148,059 (2022)[6]
United States	99,296[7]
France	25,000[8]
Italy	12,924[9]
Japan	7,103[10]
Australia	956[11]
Languages
Primarily Spanish Quechua, Aymara, Guarani and other languages of Bolivia
Religion
Predominantly Roman Catholic[12] (syncretism with traditional beliefs is widely practiced) Protestant and Mormon minorities[13]

Bolivians (Spanish: Bolivianos) are people identified with the country of Bolivia. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Bolivians, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being Bolivian.

Bolivia is, as its neighboring countries, a multiethnic and multilingual society, home to people of various ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of indigenous and Old World immigrants and their descendants. As a result, Bolivians do not equate their nationality with ethnicity, but with citizenship and allegiance to Bolivia. Aside from the indigenous populations, Bolivians trace their ancestry to the Old World, primarily Europe and Africa, ever since the Spanish conquest of South America and founding of first Spanish settlements in the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata.

Modern Bolivian population, estimated at 11 million is formally broken down into Amerindians (primarily Quechua and Aymara, Guaraní peoples), Mestizos, Europeans and Afro-Bolivians. The group's sole common language is Spanish (Bolivian Spanish), although the Guarani, Aymara and Quechua languages are also widely spoken in their communities and to some degree by others, and all three, as well as 34 other indigenous languages, are official languages of the country. The mutual influence and interaction of cultures of Bolivia have resulted in modern Bolivian society becoming one of prime examples of a melting pot according to some anthropologists.