Togo and Peru Comparison - Examine Similarities and Differences

Country
	Peru
Leader
President: Faure Gnassingbe Eyadema	President : Ollanta Humala
Population
6,961,049	29,549,517
Life Expectancy
63.170 years	72.730 years
Capital City
	Lima
Largest city
Lome (population: 749,700)	Lima (population: 7,737,000)
Human Development Index
0.479	0.788
GDP per capita
	$10,200 US
Literacy Rate
60.9%	87.7%
Corruption Perception Index
2.7	3.6
Percentage of Women in Parliament
11.1%	29.2%
Wealthiest Citizens

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

Political System
republic under transition to multiparty democratic rule	constitutional republic
Independence date
	28 July 1821 (from Spain)
Religions
Christian 29%, Muslim 20%, indigenous beliefs 51%	Roman Catholic 81%, Seventh Day Adventist 1.4%, other Christian 0.7%, other 0.6%, unspecified or none 16.3% (2003 est.)
Languages
French (official and the language of commerce), Ewe and Mina (the two major African languages in the south), Kabye (sometimes spelled Kabiye) and Dagomba (the two major African languages in the north)	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
1	0
Location
Western Africa, bordering the Bight of Benin, between Benin and Ghana	Western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador
Area
56,785 km sq	1,285,216 km sq
Coastline
56 km	2,414 km
Climate
tropical; hot, humid in south; semiarid in north	varies from tropical in east to dry desert in west; temperate to frigid in Andes

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