GDP: purchasing power parity - $116 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 2.4% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $4,400 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
13%
industry:
42%
services:
45% (1998)
Population below poverty line: 54% (1991 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.9%
highest 10%:
34.3% (1994)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 5.5% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 7.6 million (1996 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture, mining and quarrying, manufacturing, construction, transport, services
Unemployment rate: 7.7%; extensive underemployment (1997)
Budget:
revenues:
$8.5 billion
expenditures:
$9.3 billion, including capital expenditures of $2 billion (1996 est.)
Industries: mining of metals, petroleum, fishing, textiles, clothing, food processing, cement, auto assembly, steel, shipbuilding, metal fabrication
Industrial production growth rate: 1.2% (1996)
Electricity - production: 18.28 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
24.53%
hydro:
74.79%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0.68% (1998)
Electricity - consumption: 17.002 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 2 million kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, wheat, potatoes, plantains, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products, wool; fish
Exports: $5.9 billion (f.o.b., 1999 est.)
Exports - commodities: fish and fish products, copper, zinc, gold, crude petroleum and byproducts, lead, coffee, sugar, cotton
Exports - partners: US 25%, China 8%, Japan 7%, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Brazil (1997)
Imports: $8.4 billion (c.i.f., 1999 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, transport equipment, foodstuffs, petroleum, iron and steel, chemicals, pharmaceuticals
Imports - partners: US 19%, Colombia 6%, Venezuela 5%, Chile 4%, Brazil 4% (1997)
Debt - external: $31 billion (1998 est.)
Economic aid - recipient: $895.1 million (1995)
Currency: 1 nuevo sol (S/.) = 100 centimos
Exchange rates: nuevo sol (S/.) per US$1 - 3.500 (January 2000), 3.383 (1999), 2.930 (1998), 2.664 (1997), 2.453 (1996), 2.253 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year