Perovskite oxides are of great interest as cost-effective replacements for noble metals and oxides employed in bifunctional electrocatalysts including the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this work, a series of Bi/Nb co-doped BaCoO 3-δ -based perovskite oxides BaBi 0.05 Co 0.95-2) were synthesized and evaluated as oxygen electrocatalysts for ORR and OER. It is interesting to note that Nb-doping amount is related to the contents of surface oxygen vacancies and oxidation states of cobalt, subsequently inducing performance differences among BBC 0.95-x N x . Results show that BBC 0.95-x N x have bifunctional electrocatalytic activities toward both ORR and OER in alkaline media. Compared with the BBC 0.85 N 0.1 and BBC 0.8 N 0.15 , BBC 0.75 N 0.2 with the highest Nb-doping rate delivered a lowest total overpotential between the ORR and the OER. Moreover, the BBC 0.95-x N x catalysts deliver outstanding durability and methanol tolerance for ORR, better than Pt/C. BBC 0.95-x N x holding promising application as nonprecious bifunctional catalysts.