Burundi and Peru Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Peru
Leader
President: Pierre Nkurunziza	President : Ollanta Humala
Population
10,557,259	29,549,517
Life Expectancy
59.240 years	72.730 years
Capital City
	Lima
Largest city
Bujumbura (population: 331,700)	Lima (population: 7,737,000)
Human Development Index
0.382	0.788
GDP per capita
	$10,200 US
Literacy Rate
59.3%	87.7%
Corruption Perception Index
1.9	3.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
31.7%	29.2%
Wealthiest Citizens

Unemployment Rate
	7.900%
Death Penalty
Abolished	Abolished except for special circumstances

Political System
republic	constitutional republic
Independence date
	28 July 1821 (from Spain)
Religions
Christian 67% (Roman Catholic 62%, Protestant 5%), indigenous beliefs 23%, Muslim 10%	Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3% (2003 est.)
Languages
Kirundi (official), French (official), Swahili (along Lake Tanganyika and in the Bujumbura area)	Spanish (official), Quechua (official), Aymara, and a large number of minor Amazonian languages
Exports
	copper, gold, zinc, crude petroleum and petroleum products, coffee, potatoes, asparagus, textiles, fishmeal
External Debt
	$36,980,000,000 US
Exchange Rate
	nuevo sol (PEN) per US dollar - 2.9322 (2008 est.), 3.1731 (2007), 3.2742 (2006), 3.2958 (2005), 3.4132 (2004)
Military Budget as percentage of GDP
	1.500%
Beijing Olympics Medal Count

Location
Central Africa, east of Democratic Republic of the Congo	Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador
Area
27,830 km sq	1,285,216 km sq
Coastline
0 km	2,414 km
Climate
equatorial; high plateau with considerable altitude variation (772 m to 2,670 m above sea level); average annual temperature varies with altitude from 23 to 17 degrees centigrade but is generally moderate as the average altitude is about 1,700 m; average annual rainfall is about 150 cm; two wet seasons (February to May and September to November), and two dry seasons (June to August and December to January)	varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes

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