Migration trends in Peru
Latin America
1.8M people from around the world have made Peru their home. That's 5.3% of the country population, arriving from 52 different countries
34.2M
Population
1.8M
Immigrants
1.7M
Emigrants
+132.5K
Inflow
1 in every 19 people in Peru was born abroad
The #38 largest immigrant destination worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Peru
Where people come from
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
36.6K immigrants · 302K emigrants
1995
- An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 58%
2000
- The diaspora abroad passed 500K people
2005
- Argentina overtook United States as the largest source of new arrivals
- An accelerating exodus — the diaspora abroad grew by 44%
2010
- The diaspora abroad passed 1M people
2015
- Venezuela overtook Argentina as the largest source of new arrivals
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 49%
2020
- Surge of immigrants from Venezuela — 990.2K new arrivals
- The foreign-born population passed 1M residents
- The gap between arrivals and departures was cut in half
Today
- The country became a destination — more people arriving than leaving
- Rose into the 3 biggest immigrant destinations in Latin America
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 55%
- Roughly 1 in 20 residents was now foreign-born
- Since 1990: 1.8M more foreign-born residents and 1.4M more citizens living abroad