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Population in Peru compared to the United Kingdom: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Peru was 34,217,848 in 2024 vs 69,226,000 people in the United Kingdom in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Peru's population is 34,854,181 people compared to 69,945,462 in the United Kingdom.

Population statistics:

  • The United Kingdom's population is 2.01 times bigger than Peru's.
  • Peru is ranked the 48th most populous country in the world, while the United Kingdom is the 22nd.
  • The countries together account for 1.27% of the world: 0.42% for Peru vs 0.85% for the United Kingdom.
  • For the last 10 years, Peru has had an average growth rate of +1.26% per year vs +0.7% in the United Kingdom.
  • Since 2005, the population of Peru has increased from 28.1M people to 34.9M (24% growth), while the United Kingdom has grown from 60.4M to 69.9M (15.8% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people compared to the peak of 76.2M people in 2072 for the United Kingdom.

Peru vs United Kingdom: live population counter

Peru United Kingdom
Current population
34854181
69945462
Population rank 48/197 22/197
Percent of world population 0.42% 0.85%
One net population change
1.41 minutes
43 seconds
One birth every
58.4 seconds
45.9 seconds
One death every
2.83 minutes
48.4 seconds
One migration net change every
28.6 minutes
1.26 minutes
Annual migration change +18,406 +417,114
Daily growth/decline +1,020 +2,011
Annual growth/decline +372,231 +734,000
Annual growth/decline rate +1.1% +1.07%
Population growth rate rank 97/197 99/197

Peru and the United Kingdom: population history and growth rate by year chart

Peru
Population

Growth rate
United Kingdom
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Peru United Kingdom Peru United Kingdom
1960 10,174,127 52,400,000 - -
1961 10,475,123 52,800,000 2.96% 0.76%
1962 10,784,612 53,250,000 2.95% 0.85%
1963 11,102,099 53,650,000 2.94% 0.75%
1964 11,427,978 54,000,000 2.94% 0.65%
1965 11,761,085 54,348,050 2.91% 0.64%
1966 12,101,297 54,648,500 2.89% 0.55%
1967 12,448,814 54,943,600 2.87% 0.54%
1968 12,803,993 55,211,700 2.85% 0.49%
1969 13,166,767 55,441,750 2.83% 0.42%
1970 13,501,237 55,663,250 2.54% 0.4%
1971 13,838,067 55,896,223 2.49% 0.42%
1972 14,210,147 56,086,065 2.69% 0.34%
1973 14,582,867 56,194,527 2.62% 0.19%
1974 14,956,552 56,229,974 2.56% 0.06%
1975 15,333,957 56,225,800 2.52% -0.007%
1976 15,716,809 56,211,968 2.5% -0.02%
1977 16,109,806 56,193,492 2.5% -0.03%
1978 16,516,059 56,196,504 2.52% 0.005%
1979 16,933,139 56,246,951 2.53% 0.09%
1980 17,360,949 56,314,216 2.53% 0.12%
1981 17,798,805 56,333,829 2.52% 0.03%
1982 18,246,503 56,313,641 2.52% -0.04%
1983 18,705,957 56,332,848 2.52% 0.03%
1984 19,174,716 56,422,072 2.51% 0.16%
1985 19,648,204 56,550,268 2.47% 0.23%
1986 20,117,122 56,681,396 2.39% 0.23%
1987 20,582,320 56,802,050 2.31% 0.21%
1988 21,054,702 56,928,327 2.3% 0.22%
1989 21,532,589 57,076,711 2.27% 0.26%
1990 22,014,771 57,247,586 2.24% 0.3%
1991 22,483,775 57,424,897 2.13% 0.31%
1992 22,946,340 57,580,402 2.06% 0.27%
1993 23,413,783 57,718,614 2.04% 0.24%
1994 23,881,493 57,865,745 2% 0.25%
1995 24,348,919 58,019,030 1.96% 0.26%
1996 24,811,171 58,166,950 1.9% 0.25%
1997 25,274,147 58,316,954 1.87% 0.26%
1998 25,738,095 58,487,141 1.84% 0.29%
1999 26,186,504 58,682,466 1.74% 0.33%
2000 26,598,331 58,892,514 1.57% 0.36%
2001 26,964,601 59,119,673 1.38% 0.39%
2002 27,288,217 59,370,479 1.2% 0.42%
2003 27,580,490 59,647,577 1.07% 0.47%
2004 27,852,190 59,987,905 0.99% 0.57%
2005 28,101,180 60,401,206 0.89% 0.69%
2006 28,324,491 60,846,820 0.79% 0.74%
2007 28,530,699 61,322,463 0.73% 0.78%
2008 28,719,041 61,806,995 0.66% 0.79%
2009 28,896,811 62,276,270 0.62% 0.76%
2010 29,086,019 62,766,365 0.65% 0.79%
2011 29,304,086 63,258,810 0.75% 0.78%
2012 29,550,366 63,711,000 0.84% 0.71%
2013 29,817,919 64,139,000 0.91% 0.67%
2014 30,115,826 64,620,000 1% 0.75%
2015 30,457,600 65,088,000 1.13% 0.72%
2016 30,866,494 65,607,000 1.34% 0.8%
2017 31,324,637 65,966,000 1.48% 0.55%
2018 31,897,584 66,289,000 1.83% 0.49%
2019 32,449,303 66,631,000 1.73% 0.52%
2020 32,838,579 66,744,000 1.2% 0.17%
2021 33,155,882 66,984,000 0.97% 0.36%
2022 33,475,438 67,604,000 0.96% 0.93%
2023 33,845,617 68,492,000 1.11% 1.31%
2024 34,217,848 69,226,000 1.1% 1.07%
2025 34,576,670 69,639,673 1.05% 0.6%
2026 34,922,144 70,020,350 1% 0.55%
2027 35,255,683 70,382,853 0.96% 0.52%
2028 35,578,281 70,732,699 0.92% 0.5%
2029 35,890,705 71,061,482 0.88% 0.46%
2030 36,193,882 71,377,535 0.84% 0.44%
2031 36,488,437 71,678,351 0.81% 0.42%
2032 36,774,937 71,959,934 0.79% 0.39%
2033 37,054,380 72,234,509 0.76% 0.38%
2034 37,326,798 72,497,650 0.74% 0.36%
2035 37,591,420 72,749,096 0.71% 0.35%
2036 37,848,147 72,990,847 0.68% 0.33%
2037 38,096,898 73,218,850 0.66% 0.31%
2038 38,337,328 73,441,349 0.63% 0.3%
2039 38,569,891 73,658,392 0.61% 0.3%
2040 38,794,647 73,868,334 0.58% 0.29%
2041 39,011,537 74,074,316 0.56% 0.28%
2042 39,220,371 74,275,779 0.54% 0.27%
2043 39,420,647 74,475,035 0.51% 0.27%
2044 39,612,847 74,667,284 0.49% 0.26%
2045 39,796,723 74,848,605 0.46% 0.24%
2046 39,971,719 75,020,949 0.44% 0.23%
2047 40,137,869 75,184,478 0.42% 0.22%
2048 40,294,857 75,337,543 0.39% 0.2%
2049 40,443,273 75,476,141 0.37% 0.18%
2050 40,583,875 75,600,588 0.35% 0.16%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Peru increased by 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth), while the United Kingdom gained 4,686,794 people (a 7.76% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Peru gained 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth), while the United Kingdom's population increased by 4,857,462 (a 7.46% growth).

Peru was ranked 39th most populous country in 2005 and is 48th in 2025. The United Kingdom was ranked 21st in 2005 and ranked 22nd 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 the United Kingdom will increase by 8.09% to 75,600,588 people and rank change from 22nd to 26th.

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