PER · Latin America & Caribbean

Peru

34,576,665

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change+358.82K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+30.0%from 26.6M
Life expectancy77.9 years2024
Fertility rate1.97births per woman · 2024
Urban population85.6%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean Upper middle income

A country at every age

How Peru is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1423.6%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6466.9%Working-age population
Ages 65+9.5%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate15.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate5.6deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance+10.2births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration+11.93Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Peru look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 40.58M in 2050—18.6% larger than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 202434.22M
  2. 205040.58M
  3. 210038.16M
Median age in 205039.1years
Births in 2050455.11Kduring the year
Deaths in 2050313.82Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 196010.17M
  2. 197013.5M
  3. 198017.36M
  4. 199022.01M
  5. 200026.6M
  6. 201029.09M
  7. 202032.84M
  8. 202534.58M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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