Country comparison: Chile / Peru

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Chile and Peru. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Chile	Peru
Region:	South America	South America
Area:	756,700 km²	1,285,220 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1810 AD	1821 AD
Capital:	Santiago	Lima

Population

Details for Chile and Peru

	Chile	Peru
Population:	19,493,000	33,715,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.8	26.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 77 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 82 years	Ø 77 years
Average age:	Ø 35.5 years	Ø 29.1 years
Birth rate:	11.83 ‰	17.83 ‰
Death rate:	7.22 ‰	7.33 ‰
Migrationrate:	0.33 ‰	-0.75 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Chile	Peru
Political stability:	66	55
Civil rights:	77	42
Health:	66	48
Climate:	47	59
Cost of Living:	53	50
Popularity:	33	34

Economy

Details for Chile and Peru

	Chile	Peru
Currency:	Chilean peso (1 CLP = 100 Centavos)	Nuevo sol (1 PEN =100 Céntimos)
Unemployment rate:	9.1 %	4.8 %
Inflation rate:	4.52 %	4.27 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	62.93 %	48.74 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	34.00 %	36.80 %
Average income:	14,780 US$	6,460 US$
Corruption index:	33 (moderate)	64 (bad)

	CHL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	317,059 M US$	16.27 M US$	223,249 M US$	6.62 M US$
Gross national product:	288,125 M US$	14.78 M US$	217,752 M US$	6.46 M US$
Exported goods:	100,634 M US$	5.16 M US$	66,098 M US$	1.96 M US$
Imported goods:	102,086 M US$	5.24 M US$	58,611 M US$	1.74 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Chile and Peru

	CHL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	77,801 km	3.99 km	140,672 km	4.17 km
Railways:	7,282 km	0.37 km	1,854 km	0.05 km
Harbours:	231	0.0119	98	0.0029
Passenger airports:	17	0.0009	23	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Chile and Peru

	CHL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	73.22 bn kWh	3.76 m kWh	44.61 bn kWh	1.32 m kWh
Energy production:	76.09 bn kWh	3.90 m kWh	50.13 bn kWh	1.49 m kWh
Energy export:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	55.00 m kWh	1,631.30 kWh
Energy imports:	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh	22.00 m kWh	652.52 kWh
CO2 emissions:	91.37 m t	4,687.28 t	56.75 m t	1,683.20 t

Telecommunication

Details for Chile and Peru

	Chile	Peru
International dialing:	+56	+51
Internet domain:	.cl	.pe

	CHL total	CHL per 1000 inh.	PER total	PER per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	2,567,938	132	2,470,000	73
Mobile cellulars:	25,068,249	1286	44,000,000	1305
Internet server:	2,152,000	110	234,102	7
Internet users:	16,964,516	870	21,767,019	646
Broadband Internet:	4,280,463	220	3,063,286	91

Healthcare system

Details for Chile and Peru

	Chile	Peru
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.06	1.59
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.08	1.27
Diabetes:	8.6 %	6.6 %
HIV:	0.37 %	0.29 %
Tuberculosis:	0.16 ‰	1.30 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	77.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	29.2 %	8.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Chile and Peru

	Chile	Peru
Daytime temperatures:	18.4 °C	24.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	8.7 °C	16.2 °C
Water temperature:	14.9 °C	18.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	80 %	75 %
Rain days:	4.8	3.0
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	5.1

Native languages

	Chile	Peru
Spanish:	89.7 %	84.1 %
Quechua:	0.8 %	13.0 %
English:	5.2 %	n/a
Aymara:	0.8 %	1.7 %
Mapudungun:	0.6 %	n/a
Ashaninka:	n/a	0.3 %
Rapa Nui:	0.2 %	n/a
other:	2.7 %	0.9 %

Religions

	Chile	Peru
Christianity:	84.1 %	93.8 %
Nondenominational:	11.5 %	2.9 %
Jewry:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	4.3 %	3.3 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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