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Peru

Headline economic indicators for Peru, with the most recent official readings.

Prices

Prices — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Inflation rate · 1.5% -0.48 (-23.7%)
Consumer price index · 165.5 +2.50 (+1.5%)
House price index (quarterly) · 190.5 +4.27 (+2.3%)
House price inflation, year on year (quarterly) · 7.9% +1.82 (+29.8%)
Real house price index (quarterly) · 114.3 +0.82 (+0.7%)
Real house price growth, year on year (quarterly) · 5.2% +0.58 (+12.6%)
GDP deflator inflation · 5.4% +0.01 (+0.1%)

GDP

GDP — Peru
Indicator Value Change
GDP growth rate · 3.4% -0.08 (-2.4%)
GDP per capita · 9,684.41 +1,158 (+13.6%)
GDP per capita, long-run history · 12,763 +212.51 (+1.7%)
GDP · 334,854,659,181.89 +43,103,136,163 (+14.8%)
GDP, PPP · 650,598,143,710 +38,719,082,569 (+6.3%)
GDP per capita, PPP · 18,816 +934.24 (+5.2%)
GDP per capita growth · 2.4% -0.03 (-1.3%)
GNI per capita · 8,430 +900.00 (+12.0%)
Agriculture to GDP · 7.5% +0.25 (+3.4%)
Industry to GDP · 34.3% +0.11 (+0.3%)
Manufacturing to GDP · 12.2% -0.46 (-3.6%)
Services to GDP · 50.9% -0.15 (-0.3%)
Household consumption to GDP · 58.5% -2.35 (-3.9%)
Gross capital formation to GDP · 20.3% +0.61 (+3.1%)
Gross savings to GDP · 24.0% +1.42 (+6.3%)

Labour

Labour — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Unemployment rate · 5.1% -0.08 (-1.6%)
Labour force participation rate · 72.9% +0.05 (+0.1%)
Female labour force participation rate · 65.0% +0.11 (+0.2%)
Youth unemployment rate · 9.5% -0.25 (-2.6%)
Employment to population ratio · 69.1% +0.10 (+0.2%)
Employment in agriculture · 23.1% -0.28 (-1.2%)
Employment in industry · 16.8% +0.00 (+0.0%)
Employment in services · 60.1% +0.28 (+0.5%)

Money

Money — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Real interest rate · 7.7% +6.89 (+814.5%)
Central bank policy rate · 4.3% -0.25 (-5.6%)
Real effective exchange rate (monthly) · 111.0 -0.82 (-0.7%)
Nominal effective exchange rate (monthly) · 111.7 -0.44 (-0.4%)
Broad money to GDP · 61.6% +1.04 (+1.7%)
Private sector credit to GDP · 39.6% -3.33 (-7.8%)
Lending rate · 12.6% +1.62 (+14.7%)
Bank deposit rate · 4.8% +4.12 (+592.1%)
Stock market capitalization to GDP · 31.4% +3.23 (+11.5%)
Bank nonperforming loans · 4.0% -0.49 (-10.9%)
Official exchange rate · 3.57 -0.19 (-4.9%)

Trade

Trade — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Current account to GDP · 3.6% +1.20 (+50.1%)
Exports to GDP · 30.0% +1.09 (+3.8%)
Imports to GDP · 21.8% -0.95 (-4.2%)
Trade to GDP · 51.8% +0.13 (+0.3%)
Exports of goods and services · 100,355,362,281.14 +16,086,045,068 (+19.1%)
Imports of goods and services · 73,151,196,614.36 +6,639,977,461 (+10.0%)
Trade balance, goods and services (annual) · 27,202,147,491.53 +10,979,617,182 (+67.7%)
Current account balance (annual) · 12,004,522,693.59 +5,035,768,315 (+72.3%)
Foreign direct investment to GDP · 3.1% +0.79 (+34.6%)
Remittances received to GDP · 1.6% -0.11 (-6.4%)
Total reserves, including gold · 90,393,720,332.23 +11,147,677,624 (+14.1%)
Reserves in months of imports · 10.4 -0.10 (-0.9%)
External debt to GNI · 34.2% -2.97 (-8.0%)

Government

Government — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Government debt to GDP · 35.2% +0.47 (+1.4%)
Government revenue to GDP · 20.7% +2.62 (+14.5%)
Government expense to GDP · 22.8% -4.07 (-15.1%)
Tax revenue to GDP · 15.9% +2.70 (+20.4%)
Government budget balance to GDP · -3.2% +6.42 (+66.5%)
Government consumption to GDP · 13.1% -0.30 (-2.2%)
Education spending to GDP · 4.4% +0.11 (+2.6%)
Health spending to GDP · 5.6% -0.46 (-7.5%)

Demography

Demography — Peru
Indicator Value Change
Population · 34,576,665 +358,817 (+1.0%)
Population, long-run history · 26,771 +262.70 (+1.0%)
Population growth · 1.0% -0.05 (-4.6%)
Life expectancy · 77.9 +0.20 (+0.3%)
Fertility rate · 1.97 -0.01 (-0.8%)
Birth rate · 15.8 -0.19 (-1.2%)
Death rate · 5.6 +0.10 (+1.9%)
Urban population share · 85.6% +0.41 (+0.5%)
Population aged 65 and over · 9.5% +0.24 (+2.6%)
Under-five mortality rate · 12.9 -0.40 (-3.0%)
Population density · 26.7 +0.29 (+1.1%)
Net migration · 11,931 -6,475 (-35.2%)
Gini index · 40.1 -0.60 (-1.5%)

Source: Bank for International Settlements (BIS). Translated titles are not official BIS translations.

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

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