Peru’s coastline is 36 times as long as Belgium’s

Belgium: 67 km (2026 edition) · Peru: 2,414 km (2026 edition)

Peru’s highest peak towers 6,052 m above Belgium’s

Belgium: 694 m (2026 edition) · Peru: 6,746 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 44% of Belgium, versus 19% of Peru

Belgium: 44.4% (2024) · Peru: 19% (2024)

Peru has 2.9 times as many people as Belgium

Belgium: 11.9 million (2025) · Peru: 34.6 million (2025)

Belgium is 14 times as densely populated as Peru

Belgium: 392 per km² (2025) · Peru: 27 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Belgium is 12 years older than in Peru

Belgium: 41.4 years (2023) · Peru: 29.5 years (2023)

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

Belgium: 1.44 children per woman (2024) · Peru: 1.97 children per woman (2024)

21% of people in Belgium are 65 or older, versus 9.5% in Peru

Belgium: 21% (2025) · Peru: 9.5% (2025)

Belgium hosts 80 times as many refugees per resident as Peru

Belgium: 15.6 per 1,000 (2025) · Peru: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Belgium has produced 8.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Peru 0.3

Belgium: 8.4 (2026) · Peru: 0.3 (2026)

Belgium and Peru are practically level

Belgium: 3 (2026) · Peru: 3 (2026)

Belgium’s economy is 2.2 times the size of Peru’s

Belgium: $725 billion (2025) · Peru: $335 billion (2025)

Belgium produces 4 times as much per person as Peru

Belgium: Int$74,676 (2025) · Peru: Int$18,816 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Peru than in Belgium (Gini 13.3 points higher)

Belgium: 26.8 (2023) · Peru: 40.1 (2024)

5.1% of people in Peru live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.1% in Belgium

Belgium: 0.1% (2023) · Peru: 5.1% (2024)

Unemployment is 5.9% in Belgium, versus 5.1% in Peru

Belgium: 5.9% (2025) · Peru: 5.1% (2025)

Belgium spends 2.0% of its GDP on the military, Peru 0.8%

Belgium: 2% (2025) · Peru: 0.8% (2025)

Belgium’s central government collects 23% of GDP in tax, Peru’s 16%

Belgium: 23% (2024) · Peru: 15.9% (2021)

Belgium’s price level (US = 100) is 1.6× Peru’s

Belgium: 81% (2025) · Peru: 51% (2025)

Belgium spends 13 times as much on health per person as Peru

Belgium: $5,931 (2023) · Peru: $446 (2023)

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

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

Belgium has 2.1 times as many doctors per person as Peru

Belgium: 3.6 per 1,000 (2022) · Peru: 1.7 per 1,000 (2023)

Belgium has 3.5 times as many hospital beds per person as Peru

Belgium: 5.4 per 1,000 (2023) · Peru: 1.6 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Belgium is 5.2 times that in Peru

Belgium: 15.1 per 100k (2023) · Peru: 2.9 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Peru are obese, versus 23% in Belgium

Belgium: 22.9% (2024) · Peru: 29.1% (2024)

24% of adults in Belgium smoke, versus 12% in Peru

Belgium: 23.5% (2024) · Peru: 12.4% (2024)

People in Belgium rate their lives 0.95 points higher than in Peru

Belgium: 6.93 (2025) · Peru: 5.97 (2025)

Adults in Belgium drink 2 times as much alcohol as in Peru

Belgium: 9.5 litres (2023) · Peru: 4.8 litres (2023)

Belgium has 8% more meat per person than Peru

Belgium: 60 kg (2023) · Peru: 55.4 kg (2023)

Belgium has 1,111 kcal more food per person per day than Peru

Belgium: 3,921 kcal (2023) · Peru: 2,811 kcal (2023)

Workers in Peru put in 550 more hours a year than in Belgium

Belgium: 1,593 hours (2023) · Peru: 2,143 hours (2023)

Adults in Belgium went to school 2.5 years longer than in Peru

Belgium: 12.7 years (2023) · Peru: 10.2 years (2023)

Belgium welcomed 14 times as many tourists per resident as Peru (2019)

Belgium: 0.81 (2024) · Peru: 0.06 (2022)

Belgium has 3 more World Heritage sites than Peru (16 against 13)

Belgium: 16 (2026) · Peru: 13 (2026)

Belgium has won 177 Olympic medals, Peru 5

Belgium: 177 (2026 edition) · Peru: 5 (2026 edition)

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

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

Home internet in Peru is 16% faster than in Belgium

Belgium: 254 Mbps (2026) · Peru: 294 Mbps (2026)

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

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

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

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

Peru has 125 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Belgium 104

Belgium: 104 (2024) · Peru: 125 (2024)

Belgium’s railway network is 95% longer than Peru’s

Belgium: 3,612 km (2021) · Peru: 1,854 km (2017)

Airlines from Belgium fly 86% more passengers per resident than those from Peru

Belgium: 0.95 (2023) · Peru: 0.51 (2023)

Forest covers 53% of Peru, but only 22% of Belgium

Belgium: 22% (2024) · Peru: 52.7% (2024)

The average person in Belgium emits 3.5 times as much CO₂ as someone in Peru

Belgium: 7.3 t (2024) · Peru: 2.1 t (2024)

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

Belgium: 38.9% (2025) · Peru: 63.6% (2025)

The air in Peru carries 3 times as much fine dust as in Belgium

Belgium: 9.3 µg/m³ (2024) · Peru: 27.6 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 8 times as likely to be murdered in Peru as in Belgium

Belgium: 1.1 per 100k (2021) · Peru: 8.6 per 100k (2021)

Roads in Peru are 2.5 times as deadly as in Belgium

Belgium: 6.8 per 100k (2023) · Peru: 16.7 per 100k (2023)

Peru is on average 8.2 °C warmer than Belgium

Belgium: 11°C (2016–2025 avg) · Peru: 19.2°C (2016–2025 avg)

Peru gets 2.3 times as much rain as Belgium

Belgium: 928 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Peru: 2,164 mm (2016–2025 avg)