Peru

Facts

Population:  27,483,864 (July 2001 est.)
Age structure:  0-14 years:  34.41% (male 4,803,464; female 4,654,890) 15-64 years:  60.8% (male 8,408,210; female 8,302,943) 65 years and over:  4.79% (male 603,309; female 711,048) (2001 est.)
Population growth rate:  1.7% (2001 est.)
Birth rate:  23.9 births/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Death rate:  5.78 deaths/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Net migration rate:  -1.08 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2001 est.)
Sex ratio:  at birth:  1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years:  1.03 male(s)/female 15-64 years:  1.01 male(s)/female 65 years and over:  0.85 male(s)/female total population:  1.01 male(s)/female (2001 est.)
Infant mortality rate:  39.39 deaths/1,000 live births (2001 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:  total population:  70.3 years male:  67.9 years female:  72.81 years (2001 est.)
Total fertility rate:  2.96 children born/woman (2001 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:  0.35% (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:  48,000 (1999 est.)
HIV/AIDS - deaths:  4,100 (1999 est.)
Nationality:  noun:  Peruvian(s) adjective:  Peruvian
Ethnic groups:  Amerindian 45%, mestizo (mixed Amerindian and white) 37%, white 15%, black, Japanese, Chinese, and other 3%
Religions:  Roman Catholic 90%
Languages:  Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara
Literacy:  definition:  age 15 and over can read and write total population:  88.7% male:  94.5% female:  83% (1995 est.)
GDP:  purchasing power parity - $123 billion (2000 est.)
GDP - real growth rate:  3.6% (2000 est.)
GDP - per capita:  purchasing power parity - $4,550 (2000 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:  agriculture:  15% industry:  42% services:  43% (1999)
Population below poverty line:  49% (1994 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:  lowest 10%:  1.9% highest 10%:  34.3% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):  3.7% (2000 est.)
Labor force:  7.6 million (1996 est.)
Labor force - by occupation:  agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, transport, services
Unemployment rate:  7.7%; extensive underemployment (1997)
Budget:  revenues:  $8.5 billion expenditures:  $9.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $2 billion (1996 est.)
Industries:  mining of metals, petroleum, fishing, textiles, clothing, food processing, cement, auto assembly, steel, shipbuilding, metal fabrication
Industrial production growth rate:  8.5% (2000 est.)
Electricity - production:  18.886 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:  fossil fuel:  23.04% hydro:  76.43% nuclear:  0% other:  0.53% (1999)
Electricity - consumption:  17.565 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - exports:  0 kWh (1999)
Electricity - imports:  1 million kWh (1999)
Agriculture - products:  coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, wheat, potatoes, plantains, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products, wool; fish
Exports:  $7 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Exports - commodities:  fish and fish products, copper, zinc, gold, crude petroleum and byproducts, lead, coffee, sugar, cotton
Exports - partners:  US 29%, EU 25%, Andean Community 6%, Japan 4%, Mercosur 3% (1999)
Imports:  $7.4 billion (f.o.b., 2000 est.)
Imports - commodities:  machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
Imports - partners:  US 32%, EU 21%, Andean Community 6%, Mercosur 8%, Japan 5% (1999)
Debt - external:  $31 billion (2000 est.)
Economic aid - recipient:  $895.1 million (1995)
Currency:  nuevo sol (PEN)
Currency code:  PEN
Exchange rates:  nuevo sol per US dollar - 3.5230 (January 2001), 3.4900 (2000), 3.383 (1999), 2.930 (1998), 2.664 (1997), 2.453 (1996)
Fiscal year:  calendar year

Statistics: CIA World Factbook.

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