Peru
Republic of Peru is a country in South America, covered by the Atlas as part of Latin America & the Caribbean. It is home to about 32.5 m people. Its Human Development Index of 0.794 ranks it 79 of 193 countries (2023). Its political system is classified as electoral democracy.
- Political regime
- Electoral democracy
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V-Dem (Regimes of the World), via Our World in Data
Regional profile
Latin America & the Caribbean
Peru is part of Latin America & the Caribbean. Our editors write about the region as a whole — its story, topics and sources below cover all its countries.
View the whole region →The most urbanised region of the global south and among the most unequal. Latin America swings between electoral cycles with unusual speed, carries some of the world's highest homicide rates, and holds resources — lithium, copper, soy, the Amazon — that the energy transition has made strategic.
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