World population/Peru
South America
Population of Peru
34,922,145
Growing by 0.01 people every second
#48
world rank
0.42%
of world population
+0.96%
yearly change
+333,540
people this year
532,846
births a year
200,301
deaths a year
How the figure for Peru is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Peru at 34,922,145 on 1 July 2026, and projects 35,255,685 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.01 people added every second.
That places Peru at number 48 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.42 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 532,846 births and 200,301 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.