Country comparison: Colombia / Peru

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

General information

	Colombia	Peru
Region:	South America	South America
Area:	1,141,749 km²	1,285,220 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish, Quechua, Aymara
Government form:	Presidential republic	Presidential republic
Independent since:	1810 AD	1821 AD
Capital:	Bogota	Lima

Population

Details for Colombia and Peru

	Colombia	Peru
Population:	51,517,000	33,715,000
Inhabitants/km²:	45.1	26.2
Life expectancy males:	Ø 72 years	Ø 71 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 78 years	Ø 77 years
Average age:	Ø 31.2 years	Ø 29.1 years
Birth rate:	14.44 ‰	17.83 ‰
Death rate:	6.61 ‰	7.33 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.85 ‰	-0.89 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Colombia	Peru
Political stability:	43	55
Civil rights:	44	42
Health:	57	48
Climate:	55	60
Cost of Living:	45	47
Popularity:	27	34

Economy

Details for Colombia and Peru

	Colombia	Peru
Currency:	Colombian peso (1 COP = 100 Centavos)	Nuevo sol (1 PEN =100 Céntimos)
Unemployment rate:	10.7 %	3.7 %
Inflation rate:	10.18 %	8.33 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	37.00 %	49.67 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	71.20 %	36.80 %
Average income:	6,190 US$	6,460 US$
Corruption index:	61 (bad)	64 (bad)

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	314,464 M US$	6.10 M US$	223,249 M US$	6.62 M US$
Gross national product:	318,932 M US$	6.19 M US$	217,752 M US$	6.46 M US$
Exported goods:	72,497 M US$	1.41 M US$	70,775 M US$	2.10 M US$
Imported goods:	89,076 M US$	1.73 M US$	69,504 M US$	2.06 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Colombia and Peru

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	205,379 km	3.99 km	140,672 km	4.17 km
Railways:	2,141 km	0.04 km	1,854 km	0.05 km
Waterways:	24,725 km	0.48 km	8,808 km	0.26 km
Harbours:	122	0.0024	98	0.0029
Passenger airports:	51	0.0010	23	0.0007

Energy balance

Details for Colombia and Peru

	COL: total	per 1000 inh.	PER: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	173.18 bn kWh	3.36 m kWh	134.38 bn kWh	3.99 m kWh
Energy consumption:	69.86 bn kWh	1.36 m kWh	49.12 bn kWh	1.46 m kWh
Energy production:	74.53 bn kWh	1.45 m kWh	55.47 bn kWh	1.65 m kWh
Energy export:	251.00 m kWh	4,872.22 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	1.30 bn kWh	25,273.43 kWh	60.00 m kWh	1,779.60 kWh
CO2 emissions:	81.04 m t	1,573.09 t	56.75 m t	1,683.20 t

Telecommunication

Details for Colombia and Peru

	Colombia	Peru
International dialing:	+57	+51
Internet domain:	.co	.pe

	COL total	COL per 1000 inh.	PER total	PER per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,567,395	147	2,266,025	67
Mobile cellulars:	75,056,111	1457	43,129,394	1279
Internet server:	4,410,000	86	234,102	7
Internet users:	35,953,409	698	23,974,339	711
Broadband Internet:	8,434,168	164	3,013,195	89

Healthcare system

Details for Colombia and Peru

	Colombia	Peru
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	1.71	1.59
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.08	1.27
Diabetes:	7.4 %	6.6 %
Malaria:	8.5 %	4.7 %
HIV:	0.30 %	0.29 %
Tuberculosis:	0.41 ‰	1.30 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	85.0 %
Smokers:	8.5 %	8.1 %

Climate

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

	Colombia	Peru
Daytime temperatures:	30.3 °C	24.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	22.0 °C	16.2 °C
Water temperature:	27.1 °C	18.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	76 %	75 %
Rain days:	12.1	3.0
Sunshine hours per day:	5.4	5.1

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
Colombia
Peru

Native languages

	Colombia	Peru
Spanish:	99.0 %	84.1 %
Quechua:	0.1 %	13.0 %
Aymara:	n/a	1.7 %
Chibcha:	0.4 %	n/a
Ashaninka:	n/a	0.3 %
Arawakan:	0.1 %	n/a
Creole-English:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	0.3 %	0.9 %

Religions

	Colombia	Peru
Christianity:	90.0 %	93.8 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	2.9 %
other:	10.0 %	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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