Unemployment rate:
7.6% in metropolitan Lima; widespread underemployment (2005 est.)
Population below poverty line:
54% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 0.8% highest 10%: 37.2% (2000)
Distribution of family income - Gini index:
49.8 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices):
1.6% (2005 est.)
Investment (gross fixed):
18.9% of GDP (2005 est.)
Budget:
revenues: $21.87 billion
expenditures: $22.47 billion; including capital expenditures of $1.8
billion for general government, but excluding private enterprises
(2005 est.)
Public debt:
38% of GDP (2005 est.)
Agriculture - products:
coffee, cotton, sugarcane, rice, potatoes, corn, plantains, grapes,
oranges, coca; poultry, beef, dairy products; fish
Industries:
mining and refining of minerals; steel, metal fabrication;
petroleum extraction and refining, natural gas; fishing and fish
processing, textiles, clothing, food processing