Australia’s coastline is 11 times as long as Peru’s

Australia: 25,760 km (2026 edition) · Peru: 2,414 km (2026 edition)

Peru’s highest peak towers 4,518 m above Australia’s

Australia: 2,228 m (2026 edition) · Peru: 6,746 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 47% of Australia, versus 19% of Peru

Australia: 47.3% (2024) · Peru: 19% (2024)

Peru has 25% more people than Australia

Australia: 27.6 million (2025) · Peru: 34.6 million (2025)

Peru is 7.5 times as densely populated as Australia

Australia: 4 per km² (2025) · Peru: 27 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Australia is 8.3 years older than in Peru

Australia: 37.8 years (2023) · Peru: 29.5 years (2023)

Women in Peru have 0.5 more children on average than in Australia

Australia: 1.48 children per woman (2024) · Peru: 1.97 children per woman (2024)

18% of people in Australia are 65 or older, versus 9.5% in Peru

Australia: 18.1% (2025) · Peru: 9.5% (2025)

Australia hosts 6.2 times as many refugees per resident as Peru

Australia: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Peru: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Australia has produced 3.6 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Peru 0.3

Australia: 3.6 (2026) · Peru: 0.3 (2026)

Peru has 3 official languages, Australia 1

Australia: 1 (2026) · Peru: 3 (2026)

Australia’s economy is 5.4 times the size of Peru’s

Australia: $1.8 trillion (2025) · Peru: $335 billion (2025)

Australia produces 3.8 times as much per person as Peru

Australia: Int$71,934 (2025) · Peru: Int$18,816 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Peru than in Australia (Gini 6.3 points higher)

Australia: 33.8 (2020) · Peru: 40.1 (2024)

5.1% of people in Peru live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Australia

Australia: 0.9% (2020) · Peru: 5.1% (2024)

Unemployment is 5.1% in Peru, versus 4.1% in Australia

Australia: 4.1% (2025) · Peru: 5.1% (2025)

Australia spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Peru 0.8%

Australia: 1.9% (2025) · Peru: 0.8% (2025)

Australia’s central government collects 24% of GDP in tax, Peru’s 16%

Australia: 23.6% (2022) · Peru: 15.9% (2021)

Australia’s price level (US = 100) is 1.8× Peru’s

Australia: 91% (2025) · Peru: 51% (2025)

Australia spends 16 times as much on health per person as Peru

Australia: $6,980 (2023) · Peru: $446 (2023)

A baby in Peru is 3.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Australia

Australia: 3.1 per 1,000 (2024) · Peru: 11 per 1,000 (2024)

Australia has 2.4 times as many doctors per person as Peru

Australia: 4.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Peru: 1.7 per 1,000 (2023)

Australia has 2.4 times as many hospital beds per person as Peru

Australia: 3.8 per 1,000 (2016) · Peru: 1.6 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Australia is 4.3 times that in Peru

Australia: 12.6 per 100k (2023) · Peru: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

32% of adults in Australia are obese, versus 29% in Peru

Australia: 32.4% (2024) · Peru: 29.1% (2024)

12% of adults in Peru smoke, versus 12% in Australia

Australia: 11.6% (2024) · Peru: 12.4% (2024)

People in Australia rate their lives 0.94 points higher than in Peru

Australia: 6.92 (2025) · Peru: 5.97 (2025)

Adults in Australia drink 2.2 times as much alcohol as in Peru

Australia: 10.5 litres (2023) · Peru: 4.8 litres (2023)

Australia has 2.1 times as much meat per person as Peru

Australia: 116.8 kg (2023) · Peru: 55.4 kg (2023)

Australia has 751 kcal more food per person per day than Peru

Australia: 3,562 kcal (2023) · Peru: 2,811 kcal (2023)

Workers in Peru put in 532 more hours a year than in Australia

Australia: 1,611 hours (2023) · Peru: 2,143 hours (2023)

Adults in Australia went to school 2.7 years longer than in Peru

Australia: 12.9 years (2023) · Peru: 10.2 years (2023)

Australia: no data · Peru: 0.06 (2022)

Australia has 8 more World Heritage sites than Peru (21 against 13)

Australia: 21 (2026) · Peru: 13 (2026)

Australia has won 619 Olympic medals, Peru 5

Australia: 619 (2026 edition) · Peru: 5 (2026 edition)

96% of people in Australia are online, versus 82% in Peru

Australia: 96% (2024) · Peru: 82% (2024)

Home internet in Peru is 13% faster than in Australia

Australia: 261 Mbps (2026) · Peru: 294 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Australia have electricity, versus 97% in Peru

Australia: 100% (2024) · Peru: 96.5% (2024)

88% of people in Australia live in cities, versus 86% in Peru

Australia: 88% (2025) · Peru: 86% (2025)

Peru has 125 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Australia 113

Australia: 113 (2024) · Peru: 125 (2024)

Australia’s railway network is 18 times as long as Peru’s

Australia: 32,606 km (2022) · Peru: 1,854 km (2017)

Airlines from Australia fly 4.9 times as many passengers per resident as those from Peru

Australia: 2.5 (2023) · Peru: 0.51 (2023)

Forest covers 53% of Peru, but only 17% of Australia

Australia: 17.4% (2024) · Peru: 52.7% (2024)

The average person in Australia emits 7.1 times as much CO₂ as someone in Peru

Australia: 14.5 t (2024) · Peru: 2.1 t (2024)

64% of Peru’s electricity is renewable, versus 39% in Australia

Australia: 38.6% (2025) · Peru: 63.6% (2025)

The air in Peru carries 5.1 times as much fine dust as in Australia

Australia: 5.4 µg/m³ (2024) · Peru: 27.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 10 times as likely to be murdered in Peru as in Australia

Australia: 0.9 per 100k (2023) · Peru: 8.6 per 100k (2021)

Roads in Peru are 2.2 times as deadly as in Australia

Australia: 7.5 per 100k (2023) · Peru: 16.7 per 100k (2023)

Australia is on average 3.3 °C warmer than Peru

Australia: 22.5°C (2016–2025 avg) · Peru: 19.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

Peru gets 4.8 times as much rain as Australia

Australia: 447 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Peru: 2,164 mm (2016–2025 avg)