Agri-Food Trade Service

Fact Sheets

Peru - At a Glance

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Basic Information
Land area: 1.3 million km² *
Population: 29.4 million (2010)*
Total GDP: US$ 153.5 billion (2010)*
GDP/capita: US$ 5,221 (2010)*
GDP growth rate: 8.7% (2010)*
Capital city: Lima
President: Alan Garcia Perez
Minister of Agriculture: Jorge Villasante
Canadian Ambassador: Richard Lecoq
Canada-Peru Agri-Food Trade** (CDN$ million)
  2008 2009 2010
Total Agri-Food Exports: 156.307 238.832 239.976
Total Agri-Food Imports: 108.904 101.132 130.761
Agri-Food Trade Balance: 47.403 137.700 109.215
Canadian Top 5 Agri-Food Exports (CDN$ million)
  2008 2009 2010
Total Agri-Food Exports: 156.307 238.832 239.976
Non-durum wheat 103.778 169.995 177.078
Durum wheat 23.487 28.947 19.671
Lentils, dried, shelled 11.318 15.972 18.696
Barley 3.721 7.156 7.034
Peas, dried, shelled 4.671 6.441 5.758
Canadian Top 5 Agri-Food Imports (CDN$ million)
  2008 2009 2010
Total Agri-Food Imports: 108.904 101.132 130.761
Coffee, not roasted, not decaffeinated 26.750 21.125 39.701
Asparagus, fresh or chilled 30.032 32.792 33.976
Fish meal 28.486 12.951 18.836
Grapes, fresh 4.035 4.530 9.074
Mandarins, fresh or dried 5.842 5.253 6.662
Canadian Top 5 Seafood Exports (CDN$ million)
  2008 2009 2010
Total Seafood Exports: 0.278 0.000 0.063
Cod, dried, not smoked 0.000 0.000 0.033
Sardines, frozen 0.145 0.000 0.021
Pollock fillets, frozen 0.000 0.000 0.009
Flounder, frozen 0.008 0.000 0.000
Ocean perch, frozen 0.009 0.000 0.000
Peru Agri-Food and Seafood Imports - 2010*** (US$ million)
  World Canada Canada's Share
Agri-Food and Seafood Imports 3,355 246 7.3%
Corn 439 0 0.0%
Soybean meal 377 0 0.0%
Non-durum wheat 352 155 44.2%
Soybean oil, crude 315 0 0.0%
Cotton 140 0 0.0%

GDP at market prices
Date modified: 2011-06-01
Source: Euromonitor*, Statistics Canada**, Global Trade Atlas***