Quality of life comparison

compared to

If you lived in California instead of Peru, you would:

Economy

be 54.5% less likely to live below the poverty line

In Peru, 25.7% live below the poverty line as of 2025. In California, however, that number is 11.7% as of 2023.

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make 8.7 times more money

Peru has a GDP per capita of $9,684 as of 2025, while in California, the GDP per capita is $84,028 as of 2024.

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Basic Needs

be 13.0% more likely to have internet access

In Peru, approximately 82.0% of the population has internet access as of 2024. In California, about 92.6% do as of 2023.

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Sources: World Bank (2024–2025), US Census Bureau (American Community Survey) (2023), Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024). How we calculate this

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