Side by side

Bolivia and Peru compared

Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.

🇧🇴Bolivia

6 August 1825Bolivia declares its independence from Spain

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🇵🇪Peru

28 July 1821San Martín proclaims Peruvian independence in the Plaza Mayor

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Shared indicators
41
Domains
9
Crossed events
5
Data through
2026-08-10

The figures, side by side

Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.

Entangled histories

5 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

  1. 1538-1559

    Spanish conquest of Charcas

    Spanish forces subdue the highlands of Upper Peru, organising them as the Audiencia of Charcas within the Viceroyalty of Peru.

    Colonisation · from the Bolivia chronicle · Conquest, the Silver of Potosi, and Charcas · Bolivia: Early period, Bolivia: A Country Study

  2. 1809 CE

    Uprisings at Chuquisaca and La Paz

    Revolts in Upper Peru in 1809, sparked by the Spanish crisis under Napoleon, are remembered among the first independence movements in the Americas.

    Independence · from the Bolivia chronicle · The Revolt of Tupac Katari and Independence · Bolivia: Early period, Bolivia: A Country Study

  3. 6 Aug 1825

    Republic of Bolivia proclaimed

    A congress at Chuquisaca declares the independence of Upper Peru as a republic named Bolivia in honour of Simon Bolivar, with Sucre soon its first president.

    Independence · from the Bolivia chronicle · The Revolt of Tupac Katari and Independence · Simon Bolivar: Bolivia, Antonio Jose de Sucre

  4. 1879-1883

    War of the Pacific

    Chile defeats Bolivia and its ally Peru and annexes Bolivia's coast; Bolivia loses its Pacific province of Antofagasta and becomes landlocked.

    War & Rupture · from the Bolivia chronicle · Lost Wars, the Sea, and the Tin Republic · War of the Pacific, Bolivia: A Country Study

  5. 1879-1883

    War of the Pacific

    Allied with Bolivia, Peru fights Chile over the nitrate-rich Atacama; Chilean forces occupy Lima in 1881 and Peru is defeated.

    War & Rupture · from the Peru chronicle · The Young Republic and the War of the Pacific · War of the Pacific, Peru: History