Peru 
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.
Statistics: C.I.A. World Factbook. Updated: July 20, 2007.
Press
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Business
(Monthly magazine), Lima
(Liberal newsmagazine), Lima
http://www.caretas.com.pe
(Independent newsmagazine), Lima
http://www.connuestroperu.com/
(Independent, conservative), Lima
http://www.correoperu.com.pe
(Centrist, largest circulation), Lima
http://www.elcomercioperu.com.pe/
(Independent), Cuzco
http://www.diariodelcusco.com
(Official), Lima
http://www.editoraperu.com.pe/
Peru in the News
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At best, Peruvian press commentators warned, Toledo will emerge from the latest confrontation with a negotiated truce that further exposes the administration’s indecision and political vulnerability. At worst, he could face the prospect of prolonging military intervention in response to a fresh wave of strikes and street violence.
The battleground for Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) is no longer the Andean highlands or the streets of Lima, but rather the nation’s highest court—and this time, the Marxist guerrillas appear to be gaining ground. Robert Taylor reviews the Peruvian press.
'Ironically, with the arrival of elected governments, we have witnessed the aggressive, disproportionate growth of corruption, to the degree that it has become the main obstacle to governability,' writes Nicaraguan novelist and essayist Sergio Ramírez for Mexico City's La Jornada.
Lima's Latinamerica Press looks takes the protests President Toledo met when he tried to privatize Peru's electric companies as a case-study in the difficulties Latin America's new leaders will face.
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