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Chile vs Peru

123 shared metrics.

ChileLeads in 86

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PeruLeads in 37

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Country briefing

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Chile

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Chile.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Chile stretches for thousands of kilometres north to south, giving it extreme climate variety.

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Peru

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Identity

Formal name: Republic of Peru.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Machu Picchu sits above 2,400 m, so Peru's famous Inca site is also a mountain clue.

UNESCO

Analysis

Chile leads in 86 of 123 shared metrics, while Peru leads in 37.

Chile's Coal Electricity Share is 887.0x that of Peru (17.76% vs 0.02%).

Chile's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 52.4x that of Peru (1.1 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Chile's Solar Electricity Share is 7.3x that of Peru (25.06% vs 3.0%).

Chile's McDonald's Outlets per Million People is 6.7x that of Peru (6.3 per 1M people vs 0.82 per 1M people).

Chile's Suicide Rate is 4.0x that of Peru (7.7 per 100k vs 1.5 per 100k).

Key Comparisons

Coal Electricity ShareChile leads

Chile

17.76%

Peru

0.02%

EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)Chile leads

Chile

1.1 per 100k people

Peru

0.02 per 100k people

Solar Electricity ShareChile leads

Chile

25.06%

Peru

3.0%

McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)Chile leads

Chile

6.3 per 1M people

Peru

0.82 per 1M people

Suicide RateChile leads

Chile

7.7 per 100k

Peru

25.06%

Peru

3.0%

727% higher

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Chile

6.3 per 1M people

Peru

0.82 per 1M people

669% higher

Source: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)

Suicide Rate

Chile

7.7 per 100k

Peru

1.5 per 100k

399% higher

Chile

2.0K kg oil eq/person

Peru

826.71 kg oil eq/person

147% higher

Comparison of Chile and Peru across 123 metrics
				Winner
Coal Electricity Share	17.76%	0.02%	88700% higher	Chile
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	1.1 per 100k people	0.02 per 100k people	5238% higher	Chile
Solar Electricity Share	25.06%	3.0%	727% higher	Chile
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	6.3 per 1M people	0.82 per 1M people	669% higher	Chile
Suicide Rate	7.7 per 100k	1.5 per 100k	399% higher	Chile
Domestic Patents	402	94	328% higher	Chile
Smoking Rate	28.7%	7.1%	304% higher	Chile
Time Zones Count	4.0 time zones	1.0 time zones	300% higher	Chile
Railway Length	7.3K km	1.9K km	293% higher	Chile
Health Spending Per Capita	$1,714.89	$445.86	285% higher	Chile
Wind Electricity Share	13.08%	3.5%	275% higher	Chile
Capital Elevation	575 m	154 m	273% higher	Chile
Meat Consumption per Person	83.17 kg/person/yr	24.41 kg/person/yr	241% higher	Chile
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0.10 per 1M people	0.03 per 1M people	239% higher	Chile
All-Time Olympic Gold Medals	3.0 gold medals	1.0 gold medals	200% higher	Chile
All-Time Olympic Medals	15 medals	5.0 medals	200% higher	Chile
Electricity Use (Per Capita)	4.3K kWh/person	1.6K kWh/person	172% higher	Chile
Coastline Length	6.4K km	2.4K km	167% higher	Chile
Water Stress (%)	4.0%	1.6%	153% higher	Chile
Energy Use (Per Capita)	2.0K kg oil eq/person	826.71 kg oil eq/person	147% higher	Chile
Electric Generating Capacity	39.24M kW	16.16M kW	143% higher	Chile
Foreign Patents	2.7K	1.1K	135% higher	Chile
Broadband Access (%)	23 per 100 people	10 per 100 people	130% higher	Chile
Tobacco Use Prevalence	27.3% of adults	11.9% of adults	129% higher	Chile
Youth Unemployment Rate	21.64% of youth labor force	9.5% of youth labor force	129% higher	Chile
Merchant Fleet Size	249	111	124% higher	Chile
R&D Spending (% GDP)	0.36% of GDP	0.16% of GDP	123% higher	Chile
Airports	380	175	117% higher	Chile
Inflation Rate	4.3%	2.0%	115% higher	Chile
Corruption Perceptions Index	63 pts	30 pts	110% higher	Chile
GNI Per Capita	$15,750	$7,500	110% higher	Chile
Scientific Publications	9.1K	4.6K	98% higher	Chile
Safe Drinking Water (%)	97.82%	49.43%	98% higher	Chile
Doctors (per 1,000)	3.3 per 1k	1.7 per 1k	97% higher	Chile
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$34,637.12	$17,802.42	95% higher	Chile
CO2 Per Capita	4.0 t/person/yr	2.1 t/person/yr	94% higher	Chile
Credit Card Ownership	24.28% of adults	12.65% of adults	92% higher	Chile
Political Corruption Index	0.07	0.63	88% lower	Peru
Unemployment Rate	9.1%	4.8%	88% higher	Chile
Milk Consumption per Person	116.11 kg/person/yr	62.15 kg/person/yr	87% higher	Chile
Nurses & Midwives	5.0 per 1k	2.7 per 1k	87% higher	Chile
Teen Birth Rate	6.5 per 1k	43.56 per 1k	85% lower	Peru
Hypertension Prevalence	36.4% of adults	19.8% of adults	84% higher	Chile
Forest Area	185.8K km²	718.1K km²	74% lower	Peru
Military Spending	1.6% of GDP	0.91% of GDP	74% higher	Chile
Official Languages Count	1.0	3.0	67% lower	Peru
Health Spending (% GDP)	10.1% of GDP	6.1% of GDP	66% higher	Chile
Irrigated Land	9.1K km²	25.8K km²	65% lower	Peru
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	47.62 per 100k	128.12 per 100k	63% lower	Peru
Digital Payments Used	84.29% of adults	51.71% of adults	63% higher	Chile
Informal Employment Share	26.37% of employed people	70.46% of employed people	63% lower	Peru
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	3.8% of GDP	2.4% of GDP	61% higher	Chile
High-Tech Exports (%)	8.3%	5.2%	60% higher	Chile
Mobile Money Accounts	18.67% of adults	42.5% of adults	56% lower	Peru
Forest Coverage (%)	25.01%	56.1%	55% lower	Peru
Child Mortality	7.2 per 1k births	15.8 per 1k births	54% lower	Peru
Liberal Democracy Index	0.78	0.51	54% higher	Chile
Infant Mortality	6.2 per 1k births	13.5 per 1k births	54% lower	Peru
Elderly Population (%)	14.14%	9.2%	53% higher	Chile
Vehicles per 1,000 People	271.58 per 1k people	181.58 per 1k people	50% higher	Chile
Birth Rate	8.8 per 1k	16.43 per 1k	46% lower	Peru
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	7.0 sites	13 sites	46% lower	Peru
Obesity Rate	39.52%	27.18%	45% higher	Chile
Seafood Consumption per Person	14.63 kg/person/yr	26.83 kg/person/yr	45% lower	Peru
Shipping Traffic	4.16M	2.87M	45% higher	Chile
Population	19.09M	32.77M	42% lower	Peru
Land Area	742.8K km²	1.28M km²	42% lower	Peru
Fertility Rate	1.3 children/woman	2.1 children/woman	41% lower	Peru
Government Debt (% GDP)	21% of GDP	35.2% of GDP	40% lower	Peru
Electricity Generation	89.26 TWh	63.85 TWh	40% higher	Chile
Border Neighbors	3.0	5.0	40% lower	Peru
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	15 days/yr	11 days/yr	36% higher	Chile
Water Withdrawal	35.37 B m³	25.92 B m³	36% higher	Chile
Beer Consumption	3.3 L/person/yr	2.5 L/person/yr	34% higher	Chile
Imports (% GDP)	30.14% of GDP	22.94% of GDP	31% higher	Chile
Death Rate	6.8 per 1k	9.8 per 1k	31% lower	Peru
Youth Population (%)	16.97%	23.97%	29% lower	Peru
Armed Forces Personnel	114.0K	158.0K	28% lower	Peru
Sanitation Access (%)	100%	78.77%	27% higher	Chile
Homicide Rate	6.3 per 100k	8.6 per 100k	26% lower	Peru
Electoral Democracy Index	0.84	0.67	26% higher	Chile
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	2.0 per 1k	1.6 per 1k	25% higher	Chile
Agricultural Land (%)	14.4%	19.05%	24% lower	Peru
Median Age	36.0 years	29.5 years	22% higher	Chile
Electricity Carbon Intensity	289.49 gCO2/kWh	238.25 gCO2/kWh	22% higher	Chile
Renewable Energy (%)	24.2%	30.6%	21% lower	Peru
Renewable Energy (%)	32.25%	26.66%	21% higher	Chile
Freedom of Expression Index	0.93	0.76	21% higher	Chile
Air Passengers	21.32M	17.72M	20% higher	Chile
GDP Growth Rate	2.6%	3.3%	20% lower	Peru
Road Traffic Death Rate	10.3 per 100k	12.7 per 100k	19% lower	Peru
Women's Political Empowerment	0.91	0.78	18% higher	Chile
Exports (% GDP)	33.72% of GDP	28.54% of GDP	18% higher	Chile
Alcohol Consumption	7.6 L/adult/yr	6.5 L/adult/yr	17% higher	Chile
Internet Users (%)	95%	81.96%	16% higher	Chile
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.9% of GDP	4.2% of GDP	16% higher	Chile
Insufficient Physical Activity	38.21% of adults	32.85% of adults	16% higher	Chile
GDP (Nominal)	$330,267,137,371.59	$289,221,969,062.94	14% higher	Chile
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	23.28 µg/m³	27.04 µg/m³	14% lower	Peru
Total CO2 Emissions	77.82 Mt CO2e	69.27 Mt CO2e	12% higher	Chile
Human Development Index	0.88	0.79	11% higher	Chile
Tax Revenue (% GDP)	17.72% of GDP	15.92% of GDP	11% higher	Chile
Land Border Length	7.8K km	7.1K km	10% higher	Chile
Spirits Consumption	1.6 L/person/yr	1.8 L/person/yr	9% lower	Peru
Dependency Ratio	45.14% of working-age pop.	49.7% of working-age pop.	9% lower	Peru
Big Mac Price	$5.42	$5.03	8% higher	Chile
Women in Parliament (%)	35.48%	38.46%	8% lower	Peru
Inequality (Gini)	43	40.1	7% higher	Chile
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	133 per 100 people	125 per 100 people	6% higher	Chile
Can Raise Emergency Money	85.24% of adults	90.2% of adults	6% lower	Peru
Food Waste per Person	145.54 kg/person/yr	154.18 kg/person/yr	6% lower	Peru
Life Evaluation Score	6.3 pts	6.0 pts	5% higher	Chile
Electricity Access (%)	100%	96.2%	4% higher	Chile
Protected Land (%)	21.6%	22.5%	4% lower	Peru
Life Expectancy	81.2 years	77.7 years	4% higher	Chile
Women in Senior Management	31.6% of managers	32.91% of managers	4% lower	Peru
Urban Population (%)	89%	85.19%	4% higher	Chile
Tourism Revenue	$1,034,000,000	$1,002,000,000	3% higher	Chile
Average Weekly Work Hours	38.94 hrs/week	39.67 hrs/week	2% lower	Peru
Highest Elevation	6.9K m	6.7K m	2% higher	Chile
Population Density	26.46 /km²	26.44 /km²	equal	Chile
Lowest Elevation	0 m	0 m	ranked higher	Chile
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-2.3% of GDP	3.1% of GDP	ranked lower	Peru

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Analysis

Chile leads in 86 of 123 shared metrics, while Peru leads in 37.

Chile's Coal Electricity Share is 887.0x that of Peru (17.76% vs 0.02%).

Chile's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 52.4x that of Peru (1.1 per 100k people vs 0.02 per 100k people).

Chile's Solar Electricity Share is 7.3x that of Peru (25.06% vs 3.0%).

Chile's McDonald's Outlets per Million People is 6.7x that of Peru (6.3 per 1M people vs 0.82 per 1M people).

Chile's Suicide Rate is 4.0x that of Peru (7.7 per 100k vs 1.5 per 100k).

Key Comparisons

Coal Electricity ShareChile leads

Chile

17.76%

Peru

0.02%

Chile

1.1 per 100k people

Peru

0.02 per 100k people

Solar Electricity ShareChile leads

Chile

25.06%

Peru

3.0%

Chile

6.3 per 1M people

Peru

0.82 per 1M people

Suicide RateChile leads

Chile

7.7 per 100k

Peru

1.5 per 100k

Domestic PatentsChile leads

Chile

402

Peru

Coal Electricity Share

17.76%

0.02%

1.1 per 100k people

0.02 per 100k people

Solar Electricity Share

25.06%

3.0%

6.3 per 1M people

0.82 per 1M people

Suicide Rate

7.7 per 100k

1.5 per 100k

Domestic Patents

402

Smoking Rate

28.7%

7.1%

Time Zones Count

4.0 time zones

1.0 time zones

Railway Length

7.3K km

1.9K km

Health Spending Per Capita

$1,714.89

$445.86

Wind Electricity Share

13.08%

3.5%

Capital Elevation

575 m

154 m

Meat Consumption per Person

83.17 kg/person/yr

24.41 kg/person/yr

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

0.10 per 1M people

0.03 per 1M people

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

3.0 gold medals

1.0 gold medals

All-Time Olympic Medals

15 medals

5.0 medals

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

4.3K kWh/person

1.6K kWh/person

Coastline Length

6.4K km

2.4K km

Water Stress (%)

4.0%

1.6%

Energy Use (Per Capita)

2.0K kg oil eq/person

826.71 kg oil eq/person

Chile vs Peru

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

Coal Electricity Share

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Solar Electricity Share

McDonald's Outlets per Million People

Suicide Rate

Domestic Patents

Smoking Rate

Time Zones Count

Railway Length

Health Spending Per Capita

Wind Electricity Share

Capital Elevation

Meat Consumption per Person

Nobel Laureates Born per Million People

All-Time Olympic Gold Medals

All-Time Olympic Medals

Electricity Use (Per Capita)

Coastline Length

Water Stress (%)

Energy Use (Per Capita)

Electric Generating Capacity

Foreign Patents

Broadband Access (%)

Tobacco Use Prevalence

Youth Unemployment Rate

Merchant Fleet Size

R&D Spending (% GDP)

Airports

Inflation Rate

Corruption Perceptions Index

GNI Per Capita

Scientific Publications

Safe Drinking Water (%)

Doctors (per 1,000)

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

CO2 Per Capita

Credit Card Ownership

Political Corruption Index

Unemployment Rate

Milk Consumption per Person

Nurses & Midwives

Teen Birth Rate

Hypertension Prevalence

Forest Area

Military Spending

Official Languages Count

Health Spending (% GDP)

Irrigated Land

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Digital Payments Used

Informal Employment Share

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

High-Tech Exports (%)

Mobile Money Accounts

Forest Coverage (%)

Child Mortality

Liberal Democracy Index

Infant Mortality

Elderly Population (%)

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Birth Rate

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Obesity Rate

Seafood Consumption per Person

Shipping Traffic

Population

Land Area

Fertility Rate

Government Debt (% GDP)

Electricity Generation

Border Neighbors

Minimum Paid Vacation Days