Poverty Headcount / Peru
Peru Poverty Headcount
Peru poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 25.70%.
COUNTRY: Peru
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-10-10 08:45:17
GM ECONOMY RATING
Peru · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
A
78 / 100
Strong stability
Fiscal stability
13.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
17.0 / 20
External stability
15.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
12.0 / 15
Future capacity
8.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
4.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Peru · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
25.70%
Previous
27.60%
Range avg.
24.89%
Rank
20
Countries by poverty headcount
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CountryPeru
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
25.70%2025 · Rank 20
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Peru recorded 25.70% for Poverty Headcount in 2025, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2024, the indicator decreased by 1.90 percentage points, from 27.60% to 25.70%.
The latest observation is above the average of the last 10 available observations (24.89%).
Across the five latest available observations (2021–2025), the pattern is lower overall, but uneven.
Within the last 10 available observations, the low was 20.20% in 2019 and the high was 30.10% in 2020.
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