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Population in Mauritius compared to Peru: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mauritius was 1,259,509 in 2024 vs 34,217,848 people in Peru in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mauritius' population is 1,256,649 people compared to 34,854,181 in Peru.

Population statistics:

  • Peru's population is 27.7 times bigger than Mauritius'.
  • Mauritius is ranked the 157th most populous country in the world, while Peru is the 48th.
  • The countries together account for 0.44% of the world: 0.02% for Mauritius vs 0.42% for Peru.
  • For the last 10 years, Mauritius has had an average growth rate of +0.004% per year vs +1.26% in Peru.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mauritius has increased from 1.23M people to 1.26M (2.31% growth), while Peru has grown from 28.1M to 34.9M (24% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people, while Mauritius' population already peaked in 2021 at 1.27M people and is projected to decrease to 576K people by 2100.

Mauritius vs Peru: live population counter

Mauritius Peru
Current population
1256649
34854181
Population rank 157/197 48/197
Percent of world population 0.02% 0.42%
One net population change
5.72 hours
1.41 minutes
One birth every
40.9 minutes
58.4 seconds
One death every
44.3 minutes
2.83 minutes
One migration net change every
3.14 hours
28.6 minutes
Annual migration change -2,787 +18,406
Daily growth/decline -4 +1,020
Annual growth/decline -1,532 +372,231
Annual growth/decline rate -0.12% +1.1%
Population growth rate rank 172/197 97/197

Mauritius and Peru: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mauritius
Population

Growth rate
Peru
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mauritius Peru Mauritius Peru
1960 680,331 10,174,127 - -
1961 680,757 10,475,123 0.06% 2.96%
1962 700,349 10,784,612 2.88% 2.95%
1963 718,861 11,102,099 2.64% 2.94%
1964 736,381 11,427,978 2.44% 2.94%
1965 753,000 11,761,085 2.26% 2.91%
1966 768,813 12,101,297 2.1% 2.89%
1967 783,917 12,448,814 1.96% 2.87%
1968 798,413 12,803,993 1.85% 2.85%
1969 812,405 13,166,767 1.75% 2.83%
1970 826,000 13,501,237 1.67% 2.54%
1971 839,230 13,838,067 1.6% 2.49%
1972 852,053 14,210,147 1.53% 2.69%
1973 864,819 14,582,867 1.5% 2.62%
1974 878,042 14,956,552 1.53% 2.56%
1975 892,000 15,333,957 1.59% 2.52%
1976 906,507 15,716,809 1.63% 2.5%
1977 921,379 16,109,806 1.64% 2.5%
1978 933,499 16,516,059 1.32% 2.52%
1979 949,888 16,933,139 1.76% 2.53%
1980 966,039 17,360,949 1.7% 2.53%
1981 980,462 17,798,805 1.49% 2.52%
1982 992,521 18,246,503 1.23% 2.52%
1983 1,001,691 18,705,957 0.92% 2.52%
1984 1,012,221 19,174,716 1.05% 2.51%
1985 1,020,528 19,648,204 0.82% 2.47%
1986 1,028,360 20,117,122 0.77% 2.39%
1987 1,036,082 20,582,320 0.75% 2.31%
1988 1,043,239 21,054,702 0.69% 2.3%
1989 1,051,260 21,532,589 0.77% 2.27%
1990 1,058,775 22,014,771 0.71% 2.24%
1991 1,070,266 22,483,775 1.09% 2.13%
1992 1,084,441 22,946,340 1.32% 2.06%
1993 1,097,374 23,413,783 1.19% 2.04%
1994 1,112,846 23,881,493 1.41% 2%
1995 1,122,457 24,348,919 0.86% 1.96%
1996 1,133,996 24,811,171 1.03% 1.9%
1997 1,148,284 25,274,147 1.26% 1.87%
1998 1,160,421 25,738,095 1.06% 1.84%
1999 1,175,267 26,186,504 1.28% 1.74%
2000 1,186,873 26,598,331 0.99% 1.57%
2001 1,196,287 26,964,601 0.79% 1.38%
2002 1,204,621 27,288,217 0.7% 1.2%
2003 1,213,370 27,580,490 0.73% 1.07%
2004 1,221,003 27,852,190 0.63% 0.99%
2005 1,228,254 28,101,180 0.59% 0.89%
2006 1,233,996 28,324,491 0.47% 0.79%
2007 1,239,630 28,530,699 0.46% 0.73%
2008 1,244,121 28,719,041 0.36% 0.66%
2009 1,247,429 28,896,811 0.27% 0.62%
2010 1,250,400 29,086,019 0.24% 0.65%
2011 1,252,404 29,304,086 0.16% 0.75%
2012 1,255,882 29,550,366 0.28% 0.84%
2013 1,258,927 29,817,919 0.24% 0.91%
2014 1,261,208 30,115,826 0.18% 1%
2015 1,262,879 30,457,600 0.13% 1.13%
2016 1,263,747 30,866,494 0.07% 1.34%
2017 1,264,887 31,324,637 0.09% 1.48%
2018 1,265,577 31,897,584 0.05% 1.83%
2019 1,265,985 32,449,303 0.03% 1.73%
2020 1,266,014 32,838,579 0.002% 1.2%
2021 1,266,334 33,155,882 0.03% 0.97%
2022 1,262,523 33,475,438 -0.3% 0.96%
2023 1,261,041 33,845,617 -0.12% 1.11%
2024 1,259,509 34,217,848 -0.12% 1.1%
2025 1,256,649 34,576,670 -0.23% 1.05%
2026 1,253,457 34,922,144 -0.25% 1%
2027 1,250,062 35,255,683 -0.27% 0.96%
2028 1,246,502 35,578,281 -0.28% 0.92%
2029 1,242,774 35,890,705 -0.3% 0.88%
2030 1,238,963 36,193,882 -0.31% 0.84%
2031 1,234,965 36,488,437 -0.32% 0.81%
2032 1,230,623 36,774,937 -0.35% 0.79%
2033 1,225,970 37,054,380 -0.38% 0.76%
2034 1,220,995 37,326,798 -0.41% 0.74%
2035 1,215,701 37,591,420 -0.43% 0.71%
2036 1,210,085 37,848,147 -0.46% 0.68%
2037 1,204,158 38,096,898 -0.49% 0.66%
2038 1,197,926 38,337,328 -0.52% 0.63%
2039 1,191,299 38,569,891 -0.55% 0.61%
2040 1,184,262 38,794,647 -0.59% 0.58%
2041 1,176,870 39,011,537 -0.62% 0.56%
2042 1,169,165 39,220,371 -0.65% 0.54%
2043 1,161,119 39,420,647 -0.69% 0.51%
2044 1,152,733 39,612,847 -0.72% 0.49%
2045 1,144,071 39,796,723 -0.75% 0.46%
2046 1,135,101 39,971,719 -0.78% 0.44%
2047 1,125,881 40,137,869 -0.81% 0.42%
2048 1,116,431 40,294,857 -0.84% 0.39%
2049 1,106,794 40,443,273 -0.86% 0.37%
2050 1,097,042 40,583,875 -0.88% 0.35%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mauritius increased by 34,625 people (a 2.82% growth), while Peru gained 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mauritius lost -6,230 (a 0.49% decline), while Peru's population increased by 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth).

Mauritius was ranked 151st most populous country in 2005 and is 157th in 2025. Peru was ranked 39th in 2005 and ranked 48th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Mauritius' population will shrink by 12.7% to 1,097,042 people with a rank change from 157th to 160th. The population of Peru will increase by 16.4% to 40,583,875 people and rank change from 48th to 51st.

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