Peru
Republic of Peru
- Capital
- Lima
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 35 million
- Currency
- PEN
- Area
- 1,285,216 km²
Across Peru's 16 priced cities, one person needs about $1,280 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $668.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
57out of 100
- Purchasing power25%39
- Safety20%33
- Health care15%57
- Climate10%93
- Air quality10%80
- Connectivity10%88
- Cost10%56
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #82
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
33.8
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
13.7
New York = 100
Purchasing power
59.6
New York = 100
One person
$1,280
A month, rent included
Net salary
$668
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$773
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$9,684
2025
Growth
+3.4%
2025
Unemployment
5.1%
2025
Inflation
1.5%
2025
Life expectancy
77.9 years
2024
Internet users
82%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 30%
- SourcePwC
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 29.5%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 18%
- SourcePwC
- Capital gains, individuals
- 5%
- SourcePwC
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 33.1
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 66.9
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2021
- 8.6
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #19 worldwide
- 260
- Mobile downloadMbps, median, #76 worldwide
- 62
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +18%
Cities in Peru
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Cajamarca | 67 | 28.7 | $203 | $727 | 131.0 | 201.3K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 2Ica | 66 | 33.0 | — | — | — | 282.4K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 3Chincha Alta | 64 | — | — | — | — | 153.1K | Low confidence |
| 4Huancayo | 64 | 28.1 | $328 | — | — | 456.3K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 5Chimbote | 63 | — | — | — | — | 317K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 6San Martin | 62 | — | — | — | — | 130K | Low confidence |
| 7Piura | 61 | 31.2 | $237 | $540 | 87.5 | 630K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 8Pucallpa | 61 | 25.1 | $119 | $420 | 96.7 | 326K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 9Sullana | 61 | — | — | — | — | 160.8K | Low confidence |
| 10Huaraz | 61 | — | — | — | — | 118.8K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Juliaca | 61 | — | — | — | — | 245.7K | Low confidence |
| 12Huánuco | 61 | — | — | — | — | 196.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 13Miraflores | 61 | 31.6 | $682 | — | — | 187.4K | Medium confidence, 7 contributors |
| 14Arequipa | 61 | 26.5 | $362 | $647 | 97.2 | 1.2M | High confidence, 23 contributors |
| 15Puno | 60 | — | — | — | — | 128.6K | Low confidence |
| 16Cusco | 60 | 28.4 | $148 | $436 | 86.7 | 428.5K | Medium confidence, 6 contributors |
| 17Callao | 60 | — | — | — | — | 1.2M | Low confidence |
| 18Trujillo | 60 | 30.4 | $393 | $537 | 72.3 | 1.1M | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |
| 19Santiago de Surco | 60 | — | — | — | — | 251.6K | Low confidence |
| 20Tacna | 59 | 27.5 | — | $475 | 71.0 | 286.2K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 21Ayacucho | 59 | 25.0 | $356 | $488 | 76.3 | 140K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 22Chiclayo | 58 | 43.3 | $179 | $480 | 66.2 | 609.4K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 23Santa Anita - Los Ficus | 58 | — | — | — | — | 184.6K | Low confidence |
| 24San Francisco De Borja | 58 | — | — | — | — | 105.1K | Low confidence |
| 25Iquitos | 56 | — | $357 | $596 | — | 377.6K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 26Pisco | 55 | 30.6 | $163 | $577 | 106.0 | 61.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 27Moquegua | 52 | 28.1 | — | — | — | 69.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 28Lima | 52 | 33.8 | $773 | $668 | 59.6 | 7.7M | High confidence, 77 contributors |
| 29Cerro de Pasco | 50 | 30.0 | — | $477 | 67.9 | 58.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 30Talara | 47 | — | $445 | — | — | 99.1K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 31Huanchaco | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence |
| 32Tarapoto | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | Low confidence, 1 contributors |