Population: Nationality: Ethnic groups: Languages: Religions: Demographic profile: Age structure: Dependency ratios: Median age: Population growth rate: Birth rate: Death rate: Net migration rate: Population distribution: Urbanization: Major urban areas - population: Sex ratio: Mother's mean age at first birth: Maternal mortality ratio: Infant mortality rate: Life expectancy at birth: Total fertility rate: Contraceptive prevalence rate: Health expenditures: Physicians density: Hospital bed density: Drinking water source: Sanitation facility access: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: HIV/AIDS - deaths: Major infectious diseases: Obesity - adult prevalence rate: Children under the age of 5 years underweight: Education expenditures: Literacy: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): Unemployment, youth ages 15-24
NOTE: 1) The information regarding Peru on this page is re-published from the 2018 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Peru People 2018 information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Peru People 2018 should be addressed to the CIA.
31,036,656 (July 2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 43
[see also: Population country ranks ]
noun: Peruvian(s)
adjective: Peruvian
Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
Spanish (official) 84.1%, Quechua (official) 13%, Aymara (official) 1.7%, Ashaninka 0.3%, other native languages (includes a large number of minor Amazonian languages) 0.7%, other (includes foreign languages and sign language) 0.2% (2007 est.)
Roman Catholic 81.3%, Evangelical 12.5%, other 3.3%, none 2.9% (2007 est.)
Peru's urban and coastal communities have benefited much more from recent economic growth than rural, Afro-Peruvian, indigenous, and poor populations of the Amazon and mountain regions. The poverty rate has dropped substantially during the last decade but remains stubbornly high at about 30% (more than 55% in rural areas). After remaining almost static for about a decade, Peru's malnutrition rate began falling in 2005, when the government introduced a coordinated strategy focusing on hygiene, sanitation, and clean water. School enrollment has improved, but achievement scores reflect ongoing problems with educational quality. Many poor children temporarily or permanently drop out of school to help support their families. About a quarter to a third of Peruvian children aged 6 to 14 work, often putting in long hours at hazardous mining or construction sites.
Peru was a country of immigration in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but has become a country of emigration in the last few decades. Beginning in the 19th century, Peru brought in Asian contract laborers mainly to work on coastal plantations. Populations of Chinese and Japanese descent - among the largest in Latin America - are economically and culturally influential in Peru today. Peruvian emigration began rising in the 1980s due to an economic crisis and a violent internal conflict, but outflows have stabilized in the last few years as economic conditions have improved. Nonetheless, more than 2 million Peruvians have emigrated in the last decade, principally to the US, Spain, and Argentina.
0-14 years: 26.31% (male 4,155,672/female 4,009,888)
[see also: Age structure - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 18.31% (male 2,847,460/female 2,835,727)
[see also: Age structure - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 40.19% (male 5,985,354/female 6,487,232)
[see also: Age structure - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 7.78% (male 1,168,533/female 1,247,299)
[see also: Age structure - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 7.41% (male 1,086,790/female 1,212,701) (2017 est.)
A population pyramid illustrates the age and sex structure of a country's population and may provide insights about political and social stability, as well as economic development. The population is distributed along the horizontal axis, with males shown on the left and females on the right. The male and female populations are broken down into 5-year age groups represented as horizontal bars along the vertical axis, with the youngest age groups at the bottom and the oldest at the top. The shape of the population pyramid gradually evolves over time based on fertility, mortality, and international migration trends.
For additional information, please see the entry for Population pyramid on the Definitions and Notes page under the References tab.
total dependency ratio: 53.2
[see also: Dependency ratios - total dependency ratio country ranks ]
youth dependency ratio: 42.7
[see also: Dependency ratios - youth dependency ratio country ranks ]
elderly dependency ratio: 10.5
[see also: Dependency ratios - elderly dependency ratio country ranks ]
potential support ratio: 9.6 (2015 est.)
[see also: Dependency ratios - potential support ratio country ranks ]
total: 28 years
[see also: Median age - total country ranks ]
male: 27.2 years
[see also: Median age - male country ranks ]
female: 28.8 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Median age - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 138
0.95% (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 118
[see also: Population growth rate country ranks ]
17.8 births/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 103
[see also: Birth rate country ranks ]
6.1 deaths/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 157
[see also: Death rate country ranks ]
-2.2 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 166
[see also: Net migration rate country ranks ]
approximately one-third of the population resides along the desert coastal belt in the west, with a strong focus on the capital city of Lima; the Andean highlands, or sierra, which is strongly identified with the country's Amerindian population, contains roughly half of the overall population; the eastern slopes of the Andes, and adjoining rainforest, are sparsely populated
urban population: 79.2% of total population (2017)
[see also: Urbanization - urban population country ranks ]
rate of urbanization: 1.57% annual rate of change (2015-20 est.)
[see also: Urbanization - rate of urbanization country ranks ]
LIMA (capital) 9.897 million; Arequipa 850,000; Trujillo 798,000 (2015)
at birth: 1.04 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - at birth country ranks ]
0-14 years: 1.04 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 0-14 years country ranks ]
15-24 years: 1 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 15-24 years country ranks ]
25-54 years: 0.92 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 25-54 years country ranks ]
55-64 years: 0.94 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 55-64 years country ranks ]
65 years and over: 0.9 male(s)/female
[see also: Sex ratio - 65 years and over country ranks ]
total population: 0.97 male(s)/female (2017 est.)
[see also: Sex ratio - total population country ranks ]
22.2 years
note: median age at first birth among women 25-29 (2013 est.)
68 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
country comparison to the world: 83
[see also: Maternal mortality ratio country ranks ]
total: 18.4 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - total country ranks ]
male: 20.5 deaths/1,000 live births
[see also: Infant mortality rate - male country ranks ]
female: 16.2 deaths/1,000 live births (2017 est.)
[see also: Infant mortality rate - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 88
total population: 74 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - total population country ranks ]
male: 71.9 years
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - male country ranks ]
female: 76.1 years (2017 est.)
[see also: Life expectancy at birth - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 126
[See also: Healthy Life Expectancy ]
[See also: Health Performance ]
2.12 children born/woman (2017 est.)
country comparison to the world: 102
[see also: Total fertility rate country ranks ]
74.6% (2014)
[see also: Contraceptive prevalence rate country ranks ]
5.5% of GDP (2014)
country comparison to the world: 128
[see also: Health expenditures country ranks ]
1.12 physicians/1,000 population (2012)
[see also: Physicians density country ranks ]
1.5 beds/1,000 population (2012)
[see also: Hospital bed density country ranks ]
improved:
urban: 91.4% of population
rural: 69.2% of population
total: 86.7% of population
unimproved:
urban: 8.6% of population
rural: 30.8% of population
total: 13.3% of population (2015 est.)
improved:
urban: 82.5% of population
rural: 53.2% of population
total: 76.2% of population
unimproved:
urban: 17.5% of population
rural: 46.8% of population
total: 23.8% of population (2015 est.)
0.3% (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 84
[see also: HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
70,000 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 48
[see also: HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS country ranks ]
2,200 (2016 est.)
country comparison to the world: 51
[see also: HIV/AIDS - deaths country ranks ]
degree of risk: very high
food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea, hepatitis A, and typhoid fever
vectorborne disease: dengue fever, malaria, and Bartonellosis (Oroya fever)
note: active local transmission of Zika virus by Aedes species mosquitoes has been identified in this country (as of August 2016); it poses an important risk (a large number of cases possible) among US citizens if bitten by an infective mosquito; other less common ways to get Zika are through sex, via blood transfusion, or during pregnancy, in which the pregnant woman passes Zika virus to her fetus (2016)
19.7% (2016)
country comparison to the world: 109
[see also: Obesity - adult prevalence rate country ranks ]
3.1% (2014)
country comparison to the world: 103
[see also: Children under the age of 5 years underweight country ranks ]
3.9% of GDP (2015)
country comparison to the world: 145
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 94.2%
[see also: Literacy - total population country ranks ]
male: 97.2%
[see also: Literacy - male country ranks ]
female: 94.3% (2016 est.)
[see also: Literacy - female country ranks ]
total: 13 years
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - total country ranks ]
male: 13 years
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - male country ranks ]
female: 14 years (2010)
[see also: School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education) - female country ranks ]
total: 14.7%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - total country ranks ]
male: 8.6%
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - male country ranks ]
female: 8.2% (2015 est.)
[see also: Unemployment, youth ages 15-24 - female country ranks ]
country comparison to the world: 90
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