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GDP
2025: GDP size forecast - $318 billion
2023: US remittances account for 0.5% of GDP
2022: GDP size - $0.24 trillion
National debt
2023: State debt - 31% of GDP
2017: State debt - 23% of GDP
Inflation
2022: Inflation in November - 8.3%
Key rate
2021: Rate increase to 0.5%
In August 2021, the Central Bank of Peru raised the interest rate (to 0.5%) for the first time in five years after inflation accelerated faster than expected and political instability brought down the currency.
Peru is grappling with domestic market volatility, joining a growing list of CBAs tightening ultra-low monetary policy.
Power
2020: Very low energy consumption per capita
andEnergy consumption per capita, including electricity, transport heating in 2019-2020
Minerals
Oil production
Copper mining
Silver mining
2023: World's 3rd largest silver miner
2018
Foreign trade
2024: 18th in the world in terms of gold trade
2023:61% of exports come from copper
Countries in which the mining sector is the basis of exports, as of 2024:
- Botswana - 92% of exports: diamonds
- Guinea - 87% exports: gold
- Mali - 85% of exports: gold
- Burkina Faso - 84% exports: gold
- Suriname - 83% of exports: gold
- Zambia - 79% Exports: Copper
- DR Congo - 77% exports: copper
- Mauritania - 66% of exports: gold
- Guyana - 64% exports: gold
- Kyrgyzstan - 62% of exports: gold
- Namibia - 61% Exports: Diamonds
- Peru - 61% of exports: copper
2022
China is the largest export destination
LNG exports
2020: Main export item - copper
2019: Exports of 0.23 million tonnes of coffee beans - 8th in the world
2018: Clothing exports - $977 million
Unemployment
2020: Unemployment rate - 12.5%
Incomes of the population
2023: Minimum wage - $233
2022: Share of citizens with a budget of less than $5.5 per day - 26%
Сравнение data for 2012 and 2022
Industry
Metallurgy
2024: 8th in the world in terms of gold production - 100 tons
Agriculture
2021: Share of farmland - 19%
2019: Low use of pesticides in agriculture
Tourism
Real estate
2020: 10.3% rise in property prices
Alcohol market
2018: Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages - 18 years
R&D
2020: R&D expenses - $406 million
Consumption
2023: Poultry meat is the most consumed type of meat
The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.
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