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Population in Peru compared to the Vatican: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Peru was 34,217,848 in 2024 vs 1,000 people in the Vatican in 2019. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Peru's population is 34,854,181 people compared to 949 in the Vatican.

Population statistics:

  • Peru's population is 36,727 times bigger than the Vatican's.
  • Peru is ranked the 48th most populous country in the world, while the Vatican is the 197th.
  • The countries together account for 0.42% of the world: 0.42% for Peru vs 0.00001% for the Vatican.
  • For the last 10 years, Peru has had an average growth rate of +1.26% per year vs +1.9% in the Vatican.
  • Since 2005, the population of Peru has increased from 28.1M people to 34.9M (24% growth), while the Vatican has grown from 921 to 949 (3.04% growth).
  • Peru is projected to reach its peak in 2066 at 41.7M people compared to the peak of 2.51K people in 2100 for the Vatican.

Peru vs Vatican: live population counter

Peru Vatican
Current population
34854181
949
Population rank 48/197 197/197
Percent of world population 0.42% 0.00001%
One net population change
1.41 minutes
1 month
One birth every
58.4 seconds
n/a
One death every
2.83 minutes
n/a
One migration net change every
28.6 minutes
n/a
Annual migration change +18,406 n/a
Daily growth/decline +1,020 +0
Annual growth/decline +372,231 +0
Annual growth/decline rate +1.1% +0%
Population growth rate rank 97/197 165/197

Peru and the Vatican: population history and growth rate by year chart

Peru
Population

Growth rate
Vatican
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Peru Vatican Peru Vatican
1960 10,174,127 - - -
1961 10,475,123 - 2.96% -
1962 10,784,612 - 2.95% -
1963 11,102,099 - 2.94% -
1964 11,427,978 - 2.94% -
1965 11,761,085 - 2.91% -
1966 12,101,297 - 2.89% -
1967 12,448,814 - 2.87% -
1968 12,803,993 - 2.85% -
1969 13,166,767 - 2.83% -
1970 13,501,237 - 2.54% -
1971 13,838,067 - 2.49% -
1972 14,210,147 - 2.69% -
1973 14,582,867 - 2.62% -
1974 14,956,552 - 2.56% -
1975 15,333,957 - 2.52% -
1976 15,716,809 - 2.5% -
1977 16,109,806 - 2.5% -
1978 16,516,059 - 2.52% -
1979 16,933,139 - 2.53% -
1980 17,360,949 - 2.53% -
1981 17,798,805 - 2.52% -
1982 18,246,503 - 2.52% -
1983 18,705,957 - 2.52% -
1984 19,174,716 - 2.51% -
1985 19,648,204 - 2.47% -
1986 20,117,122 - 2.39% -
1987 20,582,320 - 2.31% -
1988 21,054,702 - 2.3% -
1989 21,532,589 - 2.27% -
1990 22,014,771 - 2.24% -
1991 22,483,775 - 2.13% -
1992 22,946,340 - 2.06% -
1993 23,413,783 - 2.04% -
1994 23,881,493 - 2% -
1995 24,348,919 - 1.96% -
1996 24,811,171 - 1.9% -
1997 25,274,147 - 1.87% -
1998 25,738,095 - 1.84% -
1999 26,186,504 - 1.74% -
2000 26,598,331 880 1.57% -
2001 26,964,601 890 1.38% 1.14%
2002 27,288,217 900 1.2% 1.12%
2003 27,580,490 911 1.07% 1.22%
2004 27,852,190 921 0.99% 1.1%
2005 28,101,180 921 0.89% 0%
2006 28,324,491 932 0.79% 1.19%
2007 28,530,699 821 0.73% -11.9%
2008 28,719,041 824 0.66% 0.37%
2009 28,896,811 826 0.62% 0.24%
2010 29,086,019 829 0.65% 0.36%
2011 29,304,086 832 0.75% 0.36%
2012 29,550,366 836 0.84% 0.48%
2013 29,817,919 839 0.91% 0.36%
2014 30,115,826 842 1% 0.36%
2015 30,457,600 1,000 1.13% 18.8%
2016 30,866,494 - 1.34% 0%
2017 31,324,637 1,000 1.48% 0%
2018 31,897,584 - 1.83% 0%
2019 32,449,303 1,000 1.73% 0%
2020 32,838,579 987 1.2% -1.29%
2021 33,155,882 970 0.97% -1.68%
2022 33,475,438 944 0.96% -2.66%
2023 33,845,617 922 1.11% -2.34%
2024 34,217,848 933 1.1% 1.2%
2025 34,576,670 939 1.05% 0.59%
2026 34,922,144 952 1% 1.37%
2027 35,255,683 974 0.96% 2.32%
2028 35,578,281 985 0.92% 1.13%
2029 35,890,705 983 0.88% -0.19%
2030 36,193,882 976 0.84% -0.75%
2031 36,488,437 968 0.81% -0.75%
2032 36,774,937 968 0.79% 0%
2033 37,054,380 988 0.76% 2.09%
2034 37,326,798 992 0.74% 0.37%
2035 37,591,420 1,000 0.71% 0.74%
2036 37,848,147 998 0.68% -0.18%
2037 38,096,898 1,003 0.66% 0.55%
2038 38,337,328 1,022 0.63% 1.83%
2039 38,569,891 1,060 0.61% 3.78%
2040 38,794,647 1,095 0.58% 3.3%
2041 39,011,537 1,127 0.56% 2.86%
2042 39,220,371 1,149 0.54% 1.96%
2043 39,420,647 1,169 0.51% 1.76%
2044 39,612,847 1,186 0.49% 1.42%
2045 39,796,723 1,209 0.46% 2.02%
2046 39,971,719 1,224 0.44% 1.22%
2047 40,137,869 1,248 0.42% 1.95%
2048 40,294,857 1,272 0.39% 1.92%
2049 40,443,273 1,296 0.37% 1.88%
2050 40,583,875 1,325 0.35% 2.27%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Peru increased by 2,356,420 people (a 8.39% growth), while the Vatican gained 79 people (a 8.58% growth).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Peru gained 4,396,581 (a 14.4% growth), while the Vatican's population decreased by -51 (a 5.1% decline).

Peru was ranked 39th most populous country in 2005 and is 48th in 2025. The Vatican was ranked 197th in 2005 and still ranked 197th 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 Vatican will increase by 39.6% to 1,325 people and will still be ranked 197th.

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