Environment - international agreements: party to: Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Tropical Timber 94, Wetlands, Whaling signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
Geography - note:
shares control of Lago Titicaca, world's highest navigable lake,
with Bolivia; a remote slope of Nevado Mismi, a 5,316 m peak, is the
ultimate source of the Amazon River
People Peru
Population:
28,302,603 (July 2006 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 30.9% (male 4,456,195/female 4,300,233)
15-64 years: 63.7% (male 9,078,123/female 8,961,981)
65 years and over: 5.3% (male 709,763/female 796,308) (2006 est.)
Median age:
total: 25.3 years
male: 25 years
female: 25.5 years (2006 est.)
Population growth rate:
1.32% (2006 est.)
Birth rate:
20.48 births/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Death rate:
6.23 deaths/1,000 population (2006 est.)
Net migration rate:
-1.01 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2006 est.)