Country comparison Peru : United States

General information

	Peru	United States
Region:	South America	North America
Area:	1,285,220 km²	9,831,510 km²
Official language:	Spanish	English
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1821 AD	1776 AD
Capital:	Lima	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Peru	United States
Population:	32,972,000	329,484,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.7	33.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 75 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 80 years
Average age:	Ø 29.1 years	Ø 38.5 years
Birthrate:	17.76 ‰	11.40 ‰
Deathrate:	5.58 ‰	8.70 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.76 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Peru	United States
Political stability:	55	63
Civil rights:	46	81
Health:	54	71
Climate:	70	66
Cost of Living:	50	38
Popularity:	32	67

Economy

	Peru	United States
Currency:	Nuevo Sol (1 PEN = 100 Céntimos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	4.8 %	5.5 %
Inflation rate:	4.27 %	4.70 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	48.74 %	100.00 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	6,030 US$	64,140 US$
Corruption index:	36 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	202,014 M US$	6.13 M US$	20,953,030 M US$	63.59 M US$
Gross national product:	198,693 M US$	6.03 M US$	21,261,523 M US$	64.53 M US$
Exported goods:	45,660 M US$	1.38 M US$	2,134,445 M US$	6.48 M US$
Imported goods:	41,766 M US$	1.27 M US$	2,811,124 M US$	8.53 M US$

Infrastructure

	PER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	140,672 km	4.27 km	6,586,610 km	19.99 km
Railways:	1,854 km	0.06 km	293,564 km	0.89 km
Waterways:	8,808 km	0.27 km	41,009 km	0.12 km
Harbours:	98	0.003	3,627	0.011
Airports:	191	0.006	13,513	0.041

Energy balance

	PER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	44.61 bn kWh	1.35 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.84 m kWh
Energy production:	50.13 bn kWh	1.52 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.43 m kWh
Energy export:	55.00 m kWh	1,668.09 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,424.79 kWh
Energy imports:	22.00 m kWh	667.24 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	220,708.66 kWh
CO2 emissions:	54.28 m t	1,646.25 t	4.98 bn t	15,118.48 t

Telecommunication

	Peru	United States
International dialing:	+51	+1
Internet domain:	.pe	.us

	PER total	PER per 1000 inh.	USA total	USA per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	3,082,040	93	103,052,000	313
Mobile cellulars:	38,915,400	1180	442,457,000	1343
Internet server:	234,102	7	505,000,000	1533
Internet users:	21,514,723	653	294,658,590	894
Broadband Internet:	3,044,000	92	121,176,000	368

Healthcare system

	Peru	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.59	2.87
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.27	2.59
Diabetes:	6.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.22 %	0.20 %
Tuberculosis:	1.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	75.0 %
Smokers:	8.7 %	23.4 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Peru and United States

	Peru	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.1 °C	18.7 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.0 °C	7.2 °C
Water temperature:	18.1 °C	17.7 °C
Rel. humidity:	73 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.5	7.2

Native languages

	Peru	United States
Spanish:	84.1 %	10.7 %
English:	n/a	82.1 %
Quechua:	13.0 %	n/a
Aymara:	1.7 %	n/a
Chinese:	n/a	0.9 %
French:	n/a	0.7 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Ashaninka:	0.3 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Eskimo:	n/a	0.0 %
other:	0.9 %	2.6 %

Religions

	Peru	United States
Christianity:	93.8 %	78.5 %
Nondenominational:	2.9 %	n/a
Jewry:	n/a	1.8 %
Sikhism:	n/a	1.6 %
Islam:	n/a	1.1 %
Hinduism:	n/a	1.0 %
Buddhism:	n/a	0.7 %
other:	3.3 %	15.3 %