Bolivia is a multi-ethnic nation, home to people of different races, ethnicity, and national backgrounds.  

68% of the people identified themselves as Mestizo (mixed race people of Amerindian and European descent, typically from Spanish colonists). Amerindians or Ingenious people account for 20% of the current population. Cholo at 2%, black at 1%, other at 1%, while 3% were unspecified; 

Indigenous peoples, also called “originarios” (“native” or “original”) and less frequently, Amerindians, could be categorized by geographic area, such as Andean, like the Aymaras and Quechuas (who formed the ancient Inca Empire)

The White Ecuadorians (White Latin American) are a minority accounting for 5% of the population of Ecuador. The ancestry of whites and the white ancestry of mestizos lies within Europe and the Middle East, most notably Spain, Italy, Germany, Croatia, Lebanon and Syria. here are small numbers of European citizens from Germany, France, Italy and Portugal, as well as from other countries of the Americas, as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States, Paraguay, Peru, Mexico and Venezuela, among others.

The Afro-Bolivians are a minority population (1%) in Ecuador, descendants of African slaves who arrived in the time of the Spanish Empire

There are also important communities of Japanese (14,000) and Lebanese (12,900). There are around 140,000 Mennonites in Bolivia of Friesian, Flemish and German ethnic origins

The racial composition is as follows

Source: 2018 estimate