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Population in Peru compared to South Korea: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Peru was 34,217,848 in 2024 vs 51,751,065 people in South Korea in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Peru's population is 34,854,181 people compared to 51,700,480 in South Korea.

Population statistics:

  • South Korea's population is 1.48 times bigger than Peru's.
  • Peru is ranked the 48th most populous country in the world, while South Korea is the 31st.
  • The countries together account for 1.05% of the world: 0.42% for Peru vs 0.63% for South Korea.
  • For the last 10 years, Peru has had an average growth rate of +1.26% per year vs +0.24% in South Korea.
  • Since 2005, the population of Peru has increased from 28.1M people to 34.9M (24% growth), while South Korea has grown from 48.2M to 51.7M (7.3% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people, while South Korea's population already peaked in 2020 at 51.8M people and is projected to decrease to 21.9M people by 2100.

Peru vs South Korea: live population counter

Peru South Korea
Current population
34854181
51700480
Population rank 48/197 31/197
Percent of world population 0.42% 0.63%
One net population change
1.41 minutes
13.7 minutes
One birth every
58.4 seconds
2.26 minutes
One death every
2.83 minutes
1.69 minutes
One migration net change every
28.6 minutes
6.92 minutes
Annual migration change +18,406 +75,963
Daily growth/decline +1,020 +105
Annual growth/decline +372,231 +38,446
Annual growth/decline rate +1.1% +0.07%
Population growth rate rank 97/197 159/197

Peru and South Korea: population history and growth rate by year chart

Peru
Population

Growth rate
South Korea
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Peru South Korea Peru South Korea
1960 10,174,127 25,012,374 - -
1961 10,475,123 25,765,673 2.96% 3.01%
1962 10,784,612 26,513,030 2.95% 2.9%
1963 11,102,099 27,261,747 2.94% 2.82%
1964 11,427,978 27,984,155 2.94% 2.65%
1965 11,761,085 28,704,674 2.91% 2.57%
1966 12,101,297 29,435,571 2.89% 2.55%
1967 12,448,814 30,130,983 2.87% 2.36%
1968 12,803,993 30,838,302 2.85% 2.35%
1969 13,166,767 31,544,266 2.83% 2.29%
1970 13,501,237 32,240,827 2.54% 2.21%
1971 13,838,067 32,882,704 2.49% 1.99%
1972 14,210,147 33,505,406 2.69% 1.89%
1973 14,582,867 34,103,149 2.62% 1.78%
1974 14,956,552 34,692,266 2.56% 1.73%
1975 15,333,957 35,280,725 2.52% 1.7%
1976 15,716,809 35,848,523 2.5% 1.61%
1977 16,109,806 36,411,795 2.5% 1.57%
1978 16,516,059 36,969,185 2.52% 1.53%
1979 16,933,139 37,534,236 2.53% 1.53%
1980 17,360,949 38,123,775 2.53% 1.57%
1981 17,798,805 38,723,248 2.52% 1.57%
1982 18,246,503 39,326,352 2.52% 1.56%
1983 18,705,957 39,910,403 2.52% 1.49%
1984 19,174,716 40,405,956 2.51% 1.24%
1985 19,648,204 40,805,744 2.47% 0.99%
1986 20,117,122 41,213,674 2.39% 1%
1987 20,582,320 41,621,690 2.31% 0.99%
1988 21,054,702 42,031,247 2.3% 0.98%
1989 21,532,589 42,449,038 2.27% 0.99%
1990 22,014,771 42,869,283 2.24% 0.99%
1991 22,483,775 43,295,704 2.13% 0.99%
1992 22,946,340 43,747,962 2.06% 1.04%
1993 23,413,783 44,194,628 2.04% 1.02%
1994 23,881,493 44,641,540 2% 1.01%
1995 24,348,919 45,092,991 1.96% 1.01%
1996 24,811,171 45,524,681 1.9% 0.96%
1997 25,274,147 45,953,580 1.87% 0.94%
1998 25,738,095 46,286,503 1.84% 0.72%
1999 26,186,504 46,616,677 1.74% 0.71%
2000 26,598,331 47,008,111 1.57% 0.84%
2001 26,964,601 47,370,164 1.38% 0.77%
2002 27,288,217 47,644,736 1.2% 0.58%
2003 27,580,490 47,892,330 1.07% 0.52%
2004 27,852,190 48,082,519 0.99% 0.4%
2005 28,101,180 48,184,561 0.89% 0.21%
2006 28,324,491 48,438,292 0.79% 0.53%
2007 28,530,699 48,683,638 0.73% 0.51%
2008 28,719,041 49,054,708 0.66% 0.76%
2009 28,896,811 49,307,835 0.62% 0.52%
2010 29,086,019 49,554,112 0.65% 0.5%
2011 29,304,086 49,936,638 0.75% 0.77%
2012 29,550,366 50,199,853 0.84% 0.53%
2013 29,817,919 50,428,893 0.91% 0.46%
2014 30,115,826 50,746,659 1% 0.63%
2015 30,457,600 51,014,947 1.13% 0.53%
2016 30,866,494 51,217,803 1.34% 0.4%
2017 31,324,637 51,361,911 1.48% 0.28%
2018 31,897,584 51,585,058 1.83% 0.43%
2019 32,449,303 51,764,822 1.73% 0.35%
2020 32,838,579 51,836,239 1.2% 0.14%
2021 33,155,882 51,769,539 0.97% -0.13%
2022 33,475,438 51,672,569 0.96% -0.19%
2023 33,845,617 51,712,619 1.11% 0.08%
2024 34,217,848 51,751,065 1.1% 0.07%
2025 34,576,670 51,700,480 1.05% -0.1%
2026 34,922,144 51,633,793 1% -0.13%
2027 35,255,683 51,552,198 0.96% -0.16%
2028 35,578,281 51,456,707 0.92% -0.19%
2029 35,890,705 51,347,230 0.88% -0.21%
2030 36,193,882 51,221,713 0.84% -0.24%
2031 36,488,437 51,081,220 0.81% -0.27%
2032 36,774,937 50,924,233 0.79% -0.31%
2033 37,054,380 50,747,132 0.76% -0.35%
2034 37,326,798 50,549,508 0.74% -0.39%
2035 37,591,420 50,333,286 0.71% -0.43%
2036 37,848,147 50,098,951 0.68% -0.47%
2037 38,096,898 49,845,669 0.66% -0.51%
2038 38,337,328 49,573,234 0.63% -0.55%
2039 38,569,891 49,283,770 0.61% -0.58%
2040 38,794,647 48,980,369 0.58% -0.62%
2041 39,011,537 48,661,905 0.56% -0.65%
2042 39,220,371 48,331,004 0.54% -0.68%
2043 39,420,647 47,990,085 0.51% -0.71%
2044 39,612,847 47,634,183 0.49% -0.74%
2045 39,796,723 47,263,526 0.46% -0.78%
2046 39,971,719 46,881,228 0.44% -0.81%
2047 40,137,869 46,482,133 0.42% -0.85%
2048 40,294,857 46,063,595 0.39% -0.9%
2049 40,443,273 45,626,805 0.37% -0.95%
2050 40,583,875 45,172,356 0.35% -1%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Peru increased by 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth), while South Korea gained 2,830,386 people (a 5.87% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Peru gained 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth), while South Korea's population increased by 685,533 (a 1.34% growth).

Peru was ranked 39th most populous country in 2005 and is 48th in 2025. South Korea was ranked 25th in 2005 and ranked 31st now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Peru's population will grow by 16.4% to 40,583,875 people with a rank change from 48th to 51st. The population of South Korea will decrease by 12.6% to 45,172,356 people and rank change from 31st to 48th.

Biggest cities by population

South Korea
City Population
Seoul 9.67M
Busan 3.45M
Incheon 2.94M
Daegu 2.38M
Gwangju 1.49M
Daejeon 1.48M
Suwon 1.23M
Ulsan 1.13M
Yongin 1.08M
Goyang 1.06M

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