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Peru

Peru's best placing is 10th of 194 for forest.

Best placing: #10Forest
Top 10 placings: 1 / 17
Population: 34.6 million
Land area: 1.3 million km²

Every ranking

Best placings first. The bar shows how far up the ranking Peru is.

Forest

#10 of 194

718,119 km² of forest

2nd in South America · World Bank · 2023

Land area

#19 of 194

1,280,000 km² of land

3rd in South America · World Bank · 2023

Forest per person

#24 of 194

0.0208 km² of forest per person

World Bank · 2023

Airports

#34 of 193

174 airports

8th in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Forest by area

#35 of 194

56.1 % of land area covered by forest

World Bank · 2023

Land area per person

#37 of 194

0.037 km² of land per person

World Bank · 2023

Rainfall

#43 of 179

1,738 mm of precipitation per year

7th in South America · World Bank · 2022

Population

#48 of 195

34,576,665 people

4th in South America · World Bank · 2025

GDP

#45 of 182

334,854,659,182 US$ (current prices)

5th in South America · World Bank · 2025

Coastline

#49 of 151

2,414 km of coastline

6th in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

GDP per person

#81 of 182

9,684 GDP per person (US$)

World Bank · 2025

Airports per person

#100 of 192

5.03 airports per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Railways

#75 of 135

1,854 km of railway

6th in South America · Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

Railways per person

#99 of 134

53.63 km of railway per million people

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

Airports by area

#146 of 191

1.36 airports per 10,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2025

Population by area

#158 of 194

27.01 people per km²

World Bank · 2025

Railways by area

#121 of 133

1.45 km of railway per 1,000 km²

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) · 2017

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