Saudi Arabia’s coastline is 9% longer than Peru’s

Peru: 2,414 km (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 2,640 km (2026 edition)

Peru’s highest peak towers 3,746 m above Saudi Arabia’s

Peru: 6,746 m (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 3,000 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 82% of Saudi Arabia, versus 19% of Peru

Peru: 19% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 81.7% (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 7% more people than Peru

Peru: 34.6 million (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 37 million (2025)

Peru is 57% more densely populated than Saudi Arabia

Peru: 27 per km² (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 17 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Peru is 0.2 years older than in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 29.5 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 29.2 years (2023)

Women in Saudi Arabia have 0.3 more children on average than in Peru

Peru: 1.97 children per woman (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 2.31 children per woman (2024)

9.5% of people in Peru are 65 or older, versus 3.1% in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 9.5% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3.1% (2025)

Peru hosts 16 times as many refugees per resident as Saudi Arabia

Peru: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 0.012 per 1,000 (2025)

Peru has produced 0.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Saudi Arabia none

Peru: 0.3 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 0 (2026)

Peru has 3 official languages, Saudi Arabia 1

Peru: 3 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 1 (2026)

Saudi Arabia’s economy is 3.8 times the size of Peru’s

Peru: $335 billion (2025) · Saudi Arabia: $1.28 trillion (2025)

Saudi Arabia produces 3.9 times as much per person as Peru

Peru: Int$18,816 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: Int$73,784 (2025)

Peru: 40.1 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Peru: 5.1% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Unemployment is 5.1% in Peru, versus 3.0% in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 5.1% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 3% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 6.5% of its GDP on the military, Peru 0.8%

Peru: 0.8% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.5% (2025)

Peru’s central government collects 16% of GDP in tax, Saudi Arabia’s 8.1%

Peru: 15.9% (2021) · Saudi Arabia: 8.1% (2024)

Peru’s price level (US = 100) is 1.1× Saudi Arabia’s

Peru: 51% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 47% (2025)

Saudi Arabia spends 4.1 times as much on health per person as Peru

Peru: $446 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: $1,825 (2023)

A baby in Peru is 2.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 11 per 1,000 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 4.7 per 1,000 (2024)

Saudi Arabia has 2 times as many doctors per person as Peru

Peru: 1.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3.4 per 1,000 (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 54% more hospital beds per person than Peru

Peru: 1.6 per 1,000 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.4 per 1,000 (2023)

The suicide rate in Peru is 32% higher than in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 2.9 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2 per 100k (2023)

39% of adults in Saudi Arabia are obese, versus 29% in Peru

Peru: 29.1% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 39.2% (2024)

15% of adults in Saudi Arabia smoke, versus 12% in Peru

Peru: 12.4% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 14.7% (2024)

People in Saudi Arabia rate their lives 0.84 points higher than in Peru

Peru: 5.97 (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 6.82 (2025)

Peru: 4.8 litres (2023) · Saudi Arabia: no data

Saudi Arabia has 5% more meat per person than Peru

Peru: 55.4 kg (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 58.1 kg (2023)

Saudi Arabia has 849 kcal more food per person per day than Peru

Peru: 2,811 kcal (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 3,660 kcal (2023)

Workers in Peru put in 18 more hours a year than in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 2,143 hours (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 2,125 hours (2023)

Adults in Saudi Arabia went to school 1.5 years longer than in Peru

Peru: 10.2 years (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 11.6 years (2023)

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

Peru: 0.06 (2022) · Saudi Arabia: 0.84 (2024)

Peru has 5 more World Heritage sites than Saudi Arabia (13 against 8)

Peru: 13 (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 8 (2026)

Peru has won 5 Olympic medals, Saudi Arabia 4

Peru: 5 (2026 edition) · Saudi Arabia: 4 (2026 edition)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia are online, versus 82% in Peru

Peru: 82% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

Home internet in Peru is 50% faster than in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 294 Mbps (2026) · Saudi Arabia: 196 Mbps (2026)

100% of people in Saudi Arabia have electricity, versus 97% in Peru

Peru: 96.5% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 100% (2024)

86% of people in Peru live in cities, versus 85% in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 86% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 85% (2025)

Saudi Arabia has 160 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Peru 125

Peru: 125 (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 160 (2024)

Saudi Arabia’s railway network is 58% longer than Peru’s

Peru: 1,854 km (2017) · Saudi Arabia: 2,939 km (2018)

Airlines from Saudi Arabia fly 2.5 times as many passengers per resident as those from Peru

Peru: 0.51 (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3 (2023)

Forest covers 53% of Peru, but only 1.3% of Saudi Arabia

Peru: 52.7% (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 1.3% (2024)

The average person in Saudi Arabia emits 9.9 times as much CO₂ as someone in Peru

Peru: 2.1 t (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 20.4 t (2024)

64% of Peru’s electricity is renewable, versus 2.2% in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 63.6% (2025) · Saudi Arabia: 2.2% (2024)

The air in Saudi Arabia carries 83% more fine dust than in Peru

Peru: 27.6 µg/m³ (2024) · Saudi Arabia: 50.4 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 9.2 times as likely to be murdered in Peru as in Saudi Arabia

Peru: 8.6 per 100k (2021) · Saudi Arabia: 0.9 per 100k (2019)

Roads in Saudi Arabia are 28% deadlier than in Peru

Peru: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Saudi Arabia: 21.4 per 100k (2023)

Saudi Arabia is on average 7.6 °C warmer than Peru

Peru: 19.2°C (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 26.8°C (2016–2025 avg)

Peru gets 35 times as much rain as Saudi Arabia

Peru: 2,164 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Saudi Arabia: 61 mm (2016–2025 avg)