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Honduras vs Peru
How Honduras and Peru compare on 38 measures, from 1820 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Peru was higher: 77.7 years against 72.9 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Peru was higher: $6,891 against $2,628
- Population · In 2023, Peru was higher: 33.9 million people against 10.6 million people
- Military spending · In 2025, Honduras was higher: 1.46% of GDP against 0.81% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Peru was higher: 2.02 tonnes against 1.14 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyHonduras: 72.9 years in 2023Peru: 77.7 years in 2023
- Child mortalityHonduras: 1.5 per 100 live births in 2024Peru: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityHonduras: 13 per 1,000 live births in 2023Peru: 11.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- Safe drinking waterHonduras: 65.2% in 2022Peru: 52% in 2022
- DepressionHonduras: 2.75% in 2017Peru: 2.28% in 2017
- Suicide rateHonduras: 4.4 per 100,000 people in 2017Peru: 3.1 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationHonduras: 10.6 million people in 2023Peru: 33.9 million people in 2023
- Population growthHonduras: 1.7% a year in 2023Peru: 1.12% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateHonduras: 2.5 births per woman in 2023Peru: 1.98 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationHonduras: 59.3% in 2025Peru: 85.6% in 2025
- Median ageHonduras: 23.6 years in 2023Peru: 29.5 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overHonduras: 4.3% in 2023Peru: 9% in 2023
- Net migration rateHonduras: -0.5 per 1,000 people in 2023Peru: 0.7 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingHonduras: 1.46% of GDP in 2025Peru: 0.81% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsHonduras: $582M in 2025Peru: $2.43B in 2025
- Military spending per personHonduras: $53 in 2025Peru: $75 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingHonduras: 5.7% of government spending in 2025Peru: 3.7% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelHonduras: 23,000 people in 2020Peru: 158,000 people in 2020
- National powerHonduras: 0.06% of world capability in 2022Peru: 0.28% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersHonduras: 0.56% of the labour force in 2020Peru: 0.94% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsHonduras: 7 million TIV in 2024Peru: 90 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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