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 n.Chr.	1776 n.Chr.
Capital:	Lima	Washington, D.C.

Population

	Peru	United States
Population:	32,510,000	328,240,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.3	33.4
Life expectancy males:	Ø 74 years	Ø 76 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 79 years	Ø 81 years
Average age:	Ø 26.5 years	Ø 37.4 years
Birthrate:	17.95 ‰	11.60 ‰
Deathrate:	5.50 ‰	8.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-1.76 ‰	3.03 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Peru	United States
Political stability:	59	73
Civil rights:	47	83
Health:	54	74
Climate:	66	64
Cost of Living:	66	13
Popularity:	31	86

Economy

	Peru	United States
Currency:	Nuevo Sol (1 PEN = 100 Céntimos)	US Dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	6.2 %	8.3 %
Inflation rate:	2.14 %	1.81 %
Cost of Living:	66.64 %	118.33 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	36.80 %	36.60 %
Average income:	6,740 US$	65,850 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	67 (moderate)

	PER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	226,848 M US$	6.98 M US$	21,433,226 M US$	65.30 M US$
Gross national product:	219,157 M US$	6.74 M US$	21,615,818 M US$	65.85 M US$
Exported goods:	54,882 M US$	1.69 M US$	2,528,267 M US$	7.70 M US$
Imported goods:	51,383 M US$	1.58 M US$	3,105,132 M US$	9.46 M US$

Infrastructure

	PER: total	per 1000 inh.	USA: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	140,672 km	4.33 km	6,586,610 km	20.07 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	3,673	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	1.37 m kWh	3,902.00 bn kWh	11.89 m kWh
Energy production:	50.13 bn kWh	1.54 m kWh	4,095.00 bn kWh	12.48 m kWh
Energy export:	55.00 m kWh	1,691.76 kWh	9.70 bn kWh	29,536.36 kWh
Energy imports:	22.00 m kWh	676.71 kWh	72.72 bn kWh	221,545.53 kWh
CO2 emissions:	57.41 m t	1,766.02 t	5.01 bn t	15,251.98 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	95	107,281,000	327
Mobile phones:	38,915,400	1197	404,577,000	1233
Internet server:	234,102	7	505,000,000	1539
Internet users:	19,490,179	600	286,441,830	873

Healthcare system

	Peru	United States
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	1.60	2.90
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	1.27	2.59
Diabetes:	6.6 %	10.8 %
HIV:	0.18 %	0.22 %
Tuberculosis:	1.2 %	0.0 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	83.0 %	79.0 %
Smokers:	9.6 %	25.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Peru and United States

	Peru	United States
Daytime temperatures:	26.1 °C	18.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	15.9 °C	7.3 °C
Rel. humidity:	72 %	67 %
Rain days:	4.8	7.1
Sunshine hours per day:	5.3	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 %
Italian:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	n/a	0.6 %
Tagalog:	n/a	0.4 %
Ashaninka:	0.3 %	n/a
Korean:	n/a	0.3 %
Polish:	n/a	0.3 %
Japanese:	n/a	0.2 %
Portuguese:	n/a	0.2 %
Russian:	n/a	0.2 %
Vietnamese:	n/a	0.2 %
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 %