The Peru 2005 Census was a detailed count of the Peruvian population and found that Peru's population was now 26,152,265.
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Información en español (Nota de prensa del INEI)

Population (estimated for 2001)
Population

Health
% of GDP spending on health 1998
(Average for Latin America is 2.6%)
Average of social spending (1980-93)
(Average for Latin America is 42.7%)
Life expectancy at birth (1996)
Infant mortality (of 1,000) (1996)

26,152,265 million

~1%

19%

68.6
47.9

Children with chronic or acute malnutrition (1997)

24.5%

No access to public health services
Maternal mortality (of every 100,000)
(in rural areas: 408 & in UK: 8)
Average number of children born per woman
(1990-95)

Education

30%
261

3.4

Illiteracy rate in pop. over 15 years (2000)


Rural areas: sierra

Rural areas: jungle

Total: 7.2%
Male: 3.3%
Female: 10.8%
Male: 8%
Female: 25.5%
Male: 9.2%
Female: 21.3%

14.8%
39.3%
54.1%
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Annual growth rate 1998

0.7% (estimated 1999 at 2.5%)

Inflation 1998
Total Foreign Debt 1998
Public Foreign Debt (medium and long term)
Debt Servicing 1998

Population earning below 1 dollar a day
(World Development Indicators from 1997)
East Asia/Pacific
Middle East/North Africa
Europe and Central Asia
Latin America/Caribbean
Sub-Saharan Africa
Peru

6.1%
US dollars 30 billion
US dollars 19.5 billion
US dollars 1.89 billion

26%
4.1%
3.5%
23.5%
39.1%
49.4%