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

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Peru was 34,217,848 in 2024 vs 48,807,137 people in Spain in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Peru's population is 34,854,181 people compared to 48,786,181 in Spain.

Population statistics:

  • Spain's population is 1.4 times bigger than Peru's.
  • Peru is ranked the 48th most populous country in the world, while Spain is the 32nd.
  • The countries together account for 1.01% of the world: 0.42% for Peru vs 0.59% for Spain.
  • For the last 10 years, Peru has had an average growth rate of +1.26% per year vs +0.42% in Spain.
  • Since 2005, the population of Peru has increased from 28.1M people to 34.9M (24% growth), while Spain has grown from 43.7M to 48.8M (11.8% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people, while Spain's population already peaked in 2024 at 48.8M people and is projected to decrease to 33.7M people by 2100.

Peru vs Spain: live population counter

Peru Spain
Current population
34854181
48786181
Population rank 48/197 32/197
Percent of world population 0.42% 0.59%
One net population change
1.41 minutes
1.14 minutes
One birth every
58.4 seconds
1.62 minutes
One death every
2.83 minutes
1.21 minutes
One migration net change every
28.6 minutes
4.71 minutes
Annual migration change +18,406 +111,674
Daily growth/decline +1,020 +1,258
Annual growth/decline +372,231 +459,227
Annual growth/decline rate +1.1% +0.95%
Population growth rate rank 97/197 108/197

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

Peru
Population

Growth rate
Spain
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Peru Spain Peru Spain
1960 10,174,127 30,455,000 - -
1961 10,475,123 30,739,250 2.96% 0.93%
1962 10,784,612 31,023,366 2.95% 0.92%
1963 11,102,099 31,296,651 2.94% 0.88%
1964 11,427,978 31,609,195 2.94% 1%
1965 11,761,085 31,954,292 2.91% 1.09%
1966 12,101,297 32,283,194 2.89% 1.03%
1967 12,448,814 32,682,947 2.87% 1.24%
1968 12,803,993 33,113,134 2.85% 1.32%
1969 13,166,767 33,441,054 2.83% 0.99%
1970 13,501,237 33,814,531 2.54% 1.12%
1971 13,838,067 34,224,490 2.49% 1.21%
1972 14,210,147 34,604,469 2.69% 1.11%
1973 14,582,867 34,988,947 2.62% 1.11%
1974 14,956,552 35,373,335 2.56% 1.1%
1975 15,333,957 35,757,900 2.52% 1.09%
1976 15,716,809 36,137,812 2.5% 1.06%
1977 16,109,806 36,511,638 2.5% 1.03%
1978 16,516,059 36,864,898 2.52% 0.97%
1979 16,933,139 37,191,330 2.53% 0.89%
1980 17,360,949 37,491,165 2.53% 0.81%
1981 17,798,805 37,758,631 2.52% 0.71%
1982 18,246,503 37,986,012 2.52% 0.6%
1983 18,705,957 38,171,525 2.52% 0.49%
1984 19,174,716 38,330,364 2.51% 0.42%
1985 19,648,204 38,469,512 2.47% 0.36%
1986 20,117,122 38,584,624 2.39% 0.3%
1987 20,582,320 38,684,815 2.31% 0.26%
1988 21,054,702 38,766,939 2.3% 0.21%
1989 21,532,589 38,827,764 2.27% 0.16%
1990 22,014,771 38,867,322 2.24% 0.1%
1991 22,483,775 38,966,376 2.13% 0.25%
1992 22,946,340 39,157,685 2.06% 0.49%
1993 23,413,783 39,361,262 2.04% 0.52%
1994 23,881,493 39,549,108 2% 0.48%
1995 24,348,919 39,724,050 1.96% 0.44%
1996 24,811,171 39,889,852 1.9% 0.42%
1997 25,274,147 40,057,389 1.87% 0.42%
1998 25,738,095 40,223,509 1.84% 0.41%
1999 26,186,504 40,386,875 1.74% 0.41%
2000 26,598,331 40,567,864 1.57% 0.45%
2001 26,964,601 40,850,412 1.38% 0.7%
2002 27,288,217 41,431,558 1.2% 1.42%
2003 27,580,490 42,187,645 1.07% 1.82%
2004 27,852,190 42,921,895 0.99% 1.74%
2005 28,101,180 43,653,155 0.89% 1.7%
2006 28,324,491 44,397,319 0.79% 1.7%
2007 28,530,699 45,226,803 0.73% 1.87%
2008 28,719,041 45,954,106 0.66% 1.61%
2009 28,896,811 46,362,946 0.62% 0.89%
2010 29,086,019 46,576,897 0.65% 0.46%
2011 29,304,086 46,742,697 0.75% 0.36%
2012 29,550,366 46,773,055 0.84% 0.06%
2013 29,817,919 46,604,197 0.91% -0.36%
2014 30,115,826 46,460,733 1% -0.31%
2015 30,457,600 46,422,303 1.13% -0.08%
2016 30,866,494 46,458,139 1.34% 0.08%
2017 31,324,637 46,571,232 1.48% 0.24%
2018 31,897,584 46,782,011 1.83% 0.45%
2019 32,449,303 47,118,501 1.73% 0.72%
2020 32,838,579 47,359,424 1.2% 0.51%
2021 33,155,882 47,443,821 0.97% 0.18%
2022 33,475,438 47,786,102 0.96% 0.72%
2023 33,845,617 48,347,910 1.11% 1.18%
2024 34,217,848 48,807,137 1.1% 0.95%
2025 34,576,670 48,786,181 1.05% -0.04%
2026 34,922,144 48,746,279 1% -0.08%
2027 35,255,683 48,696,847 0.96% -0.1%
2028 35,578,281 48,642,132 0.92% -0.11%
2029 35,890,705 48,578,166 0.88% -0.13%
2030 36,193,882 48,501,513 0.84% -0.16%
2031 36,488,437 48,412,854 0.81% -0.18%
2032 36,774,937 48,321,195 0.79% -0.19%
2033 37,054,380 48,230,054 0.76% -0.19%
2034 37,326,798 48,136,421 0.74% -0.19%
2035 37,591,420 48,036,650 0.71% -0.21%
2036 37,848,147 47,929,957 0.68% -0.22%
2037 38,096,898 47,819,257 0.66% -0.23%
2038 38,337,328 47,706,580 0.63% -0.24%
2039 38,569,891 47,588,878 0.61% -0.25%
2040 38,794,647 47,463,597 0.58% -0.26%
2041 39,011,537 47,332,618 0.56% -0.28%
2042 39,220,371 47,194,588 0.54% -0.29%
2043 39,420,647 47,052,293 0.51% -0.3%
2044 39,612,847 46,902,636 0.49% -0.32%
2045 39,796,723 46,738,565 0.46% -0.35%
2046 39,971,719 46,564,383 0.44% -0.37%
2047 40,137,869 46,381,681 0.42% -0.39%
2048 40,294,857 46,190,642 0.39% -0.41%
2049 40,443,273 45,985,428 0.37% -0.44%
2050 40,583,875 45,769,362 0.35% -0.47%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Peru increased by 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth), while Spain gained 2,769,148 people (a 6.34% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Peru gained 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth), while Spain's population increased by 2,363,878 (a 5.09% growth).

Peru was ranked 39th most populous country in 2005 and is 48th in 2025. Spain was ranked 28th in 2005 and ranked 32nd 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 Spain will decrease by 6.18% to 45,769,362 people and rank change from 32nd to 47th.

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