Peru

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Facts

Population: 28,674,757 (July 2007 est.).

Age structure: 0-14 years: 30.3% (male 4,427,080/female 4,271,390) 15-64 years: 64.2% (male 9,267,642/female 9,150,816) 65 years and over: 5.4% (male 734,533/female 823,296) (2007 est.).

Population growth rate: 1.289% (2007 est.).

Birth rate: 20.09 births/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Death rate: 6.21 deaths/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Net migration rate: -0.99 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2007 est.).

Sex ratio: at birth: 1.05 male(s)/female under 15 years: 1.036 male(s)/female 15-64 years: 1.013 male(s)/female 65 years and over: 0.892 male(s)/female total population: 1.013 male(s)/female (2007 est.).

Infant mortality rate: total: 29.96 deaths/1,000 live births male: 32.47 deaths/1,000 live births female: 27.34 deaths/1,000 live births (2007 est.).

Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.14 years male: 68.33 years female: 72.04 years (2007 est.).

Total fertility rate: 2.46 children born/woman (2007 est.).

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: 0.5% (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: 82,000 (2003 est.).

HIV/AIDS - deaths: 4,200 (2003 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 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3% (2003 est.).

Languages: Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages.

Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write total population: 87.7% male: 93.5% female: 82.1% (2004 est.).

GDP (purchasing power parity): $186.6 billion (2006 est.).

GDP - real growth rate: 8% (2006 est.).

GDP - per capita (PPP): $6,600 (2006 est.).

GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 8.5% industry: 26.4% services: 65% (2006 est.).

Labor force: 9.21 million (2006 est.).

Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 9% industry: 18% services: 73% (2001).

Population below poverty line: 54% (2003 est.).

Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.8% highest 10%: 37.2% (2000).

Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.1% (2006 est.).

Unemployment rate: 7.2% in metropolitan Lima; widespread underemployment (2006 est.).

Budget: revenues: $25.5 billion expenditures: $25.18 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.8 billion for general government, but excluding private enterprises (2006 est.).

Agriculture - products: asparagus, coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, potatoes, corn, plantains, grapes, oranges, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products; fish, guinea pigs.

Industries: mining and refining of minerals; steel, metal fabrication; petroleum extraction and refining, natural gas; fishing and fish processing, textiles, clothing, food processing.

Industrial production growth rate: 7% (2006 est.).

Electricity - production: 23.99 billion kWh (2004 est.).

Electricity - consumption: 22.31 billion kWh (2004).

Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (2004).

Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (2004).

Exports: $22.69 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Exports - commodities: copper, gold, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products, coffee, potatoes, asparagus, textiles, guinea pigs.

Exports - partners: US 31.1%, China 10.8%, Chile 6.6%, Canada 5.9%, Switzerland 4.6% (2005).

Imports: $15.38 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.).

Imports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, plastics, machinery, vehicles, iron and steel, wheat, paper.

Imports - partners: US 18.2%, China 8.5%, Brazil 8%, Ecuador 7.4%, Colombia 6.1%, Argentina 5.1%, Chile 5.1%, Venezuela 4.1% (2005).

Debt - external: $27.93 billion (30 June 2006 est.).

Economic aid - recipient: $491 million (2002).

Currency (code): nuevo sol (PEN).

Exchange rates: nuevo sol per US dollar - 3.2742 (2006), 3.2958 (2005), 3.4132 (2004), 3.4785 (2003), 3.5165 (2002).

Fiscal year: calendar year.