Sweden’s coastline is 33% longer than Peru’s

Peru: 2,414 km (2026 edition) · Sweden: 3,218 km (2026 edition)

Peru’s highest peak towers 4,646 m above Sweden’s

Peru: 6,746 m (2026 edition) · Sweden: 2,100 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 19% of Peru, versus 7.3% of Sweden

Peru: 19% (2024) · Sweden: 7.3% (2024)

Peru has 3.3 times as many people as Sweden

Peru: 34.6 million (2025) · Sweden: 10.6 million (2025)

Peru is 4% more densely populated than Sweden

Peru: 27 per km² (2025) · Sweden: 26 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Sweden is 10 years older than in Peru

Peru: 29.5 years (2023) · Sweden: 39.9 years (2023)

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

Peru: 1.97 children per woman (2024) · Sweden: 1.43 children per woman (2024)

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

Peru: 9.5% (2025) · Sweden: 20.9% (2025)

Sweden hosts 69 times as many refugees per resident as Peru

Peru: 0.2 per 1,000 (2025) · Sweden: 13.6 per 1,000 (2025)

Sweden has produced 28.3 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Peru 0.3

Peru: 0.3 (2026) · Sweden: 28.3 (2026)

Peru has 3 official languages, Sweden 1

Peru: 3 (2026) · Sweden: 1 (2026)

Sweden’s economy is 2 times the size of Peru’s

Peru: $335 billion (2025) · Sweden: $669 billion (2025)

Sweden produces 3.9 times as much per person as Peru

Peru: Int$18,816 (2025) · Sweden: Int$72,529 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Peru than in Sweden (Gini 10.8 points higher)

Peru: 40.1 (2024) · Sweden: 29.3 (2023)

5.1% of people in Peru live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.8% in Sweden

Peru: 5.1% (2024) · Sweden: 0.8% (2023)

Unemployment is 8.7% in Sweden, versus 5.1% in Peru

Peru: 5.1% (2025) · Sweden: 8.7% (2025)

Sweden spends 2.5% of its GDP on the military, Peru 0.8%

Peru: 0.8% (2025) · Sweden: 2.5% (2025)

Sweden’s central government collects 27% of GDP in tax, Peru’s 16%

Peru: 15.9% (2021) · Sweden: 27.2% (2024)

Sweden’s price level (US = 100) is 1.7× Peru’s

Peru: 51% (2025) · Sweden: 87% (2025)

Sweden spends 15 times as much on health per person as Peru

Peru: $446 (2023) · Sweden: $6,485 (2024)

A baby in Peru is 5.5 times as likely to die before turning one as in Sweden

Peru: 11 per 1,000 (2024) · Sweden: 2 per 1,000 (2024)

Sweden has 2.6 times as many doctors per person as Peru

Peru: 1.7 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 4.4 per 1,000 (2021)

Sweden has 22% more hospital beds per person than Peru

Peru: 1.6 per 1,000 (2023) · Sweden: 1.9 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Sweden is 4.4 times that in Peru

Peru: 2.9 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 12.7 per 100k (2023)

29% of adults in Peru are obese, versus 19% in Sweden

Peru: 29.1% (2024) · Sweden: 18.7% (2024)

20% of adults in Sweden smoke, versus 12% in Peru

Peru: 12.4% (2024) · Sweden: 20.3% (2024)

People in Sweden rate their lives 1.28 points higher than in Peru

Peru: 5.97 (2025) · Sweden: 7.26 (2025)

Adults in Sweden drink 82% more alcohol than in Peru

Peru: 4.8 litres (2023) · Sweden: 8.7 litres (2023)

Sweden has 23% more meat per person than Peru

Peru: 55.4 kg (2023) · Sweden: 68.4 kg (2023)

Sweden has 556 kcal more food per person per day than Peru

Peru: 2,811 kcal (2023) · Sweden: 3,367 kcal (2023)

Workers in Peru put in 711 more hours a year than in Sweden

Peru: 2,143 hours (2023) · Sweden: 1,432 hours (2023)

Adults in Sweden went to school 2.6 years longer than in Peru

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

Sweden welcomed 11 times as many tourists per resident as Peru (2019)

Peru: 0.06 (2022) · Sweden: 0.63 (2022)

Sweden has 2 more World Heritage sites than Peru (15 against 13)

Peru: 13 (2026) · Sweden: 15 (2026)

Sweden has won 709 Olympic medals, Peru 5

Peru: 5 (2026 edition) · Sweden: 709 (2026 edition)

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

Peru: 82% (2024) · Sweden: 96% (2025)

Home internet in Peru is 18% faster than in Sweden

Peru: 294 Mbps (2026) · Sweden: 248 Mbps (2026)

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

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

89% of people in Sweden live in cities, versus 86% in Peru

Peru: 86% (2025) · Sweden: 89% (2025)

Sweden has 141 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Peru 125

Peru: 125 (2024) · Sweden: 141 (2024)

Sweden’s railway network is 5.2 times as long as Peru’s

Peru: 1,854 km (2017) · Sweden: 9,714 km (2021)

Airlines from Sweden fly 3.6 times as many passengers per resident as those from Peru

Peru: 0.51 (2023) · Sweden: 1.85 (2023)

Forest covers 69% of Sweden, but only 53% of Peru

Peru: 52.7% (2024) · Sweden: 68.6% (2024)

The average person in Sweden emits 75% more CO₂ than someone in Peru

Peru: 2.1 t (2024) · Sweden: 3.6 t (2024)

71% of Sweden’s electricity is renewable, versus 64% in Peru

Peru: 63.6% (2025) · Sweden: 71.2% (2025)

The air in Peru carries 4.8 times as much fine dust as in Sweden

Peru: 27.6 µg/m³ (2024) · Sweden: 5.7 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 7.5 times as likely to be murdered in Peru as in Sweden

Peru: 8.6 per 100k (2021) · Sweden: 1.1 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Peru are 4.9 times as deadly as in Sweden

Peru: 16.7 per 100k (2023) · Sweden: 3.4 per 100k (2023)

Peru is on average 14.9 °C warmer than Sweden

Peru: 19.2°C (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 4.3°C (2016–2025 avg)

Peru gets 2.7 times as much rain as Sweden

Peru: 2,164 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Sweden: 801 mm (2016–2025 avg)