The Peru 1993 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peru

Peru

Peru , officially the Republic of Peru , is a country in western South America. It is bordered on the north by Ecuador and Colombia, on the east by Brazil, on the southeast by Bolivia, on the south by Chile, and on the west by the Pacific Ocean....

vian population made on July 11, 1993 by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática

Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática

The Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática is a semi-autonomous Peruvian government agency which coordinates, compiles, and evaluates statistical information for the country...

. Its full name in Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 is IX Censo de Población y IV de Vivienda ("Ninth Population and Fourth Household Census").

The latest census done by the Peruvian Government is the Peru 2007 Census

Peru 2007 Census

The Peru 2007 Census was a detailed enumeration of the Peruvian population. It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática on Sunday October 21, 2007. Its full name in Spanish is XI Censo de Población y VI de Vivienda . The previous census performed in Peru was the 2005...

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Population

According to this census

Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...

, the total population in Peru is 22,048,356 inhabitants, 50.3% of which (11,091,981) are female and 49.7% (10,956,375) are male.

Departments

Department	Persons born in the dept. or abroad	% of country's population
Amazonas	337,421	1.5
Ancash	1,192,942	5.4
Apurímac	550,846	2.5
Arequipa	846,180	3.8
Ayacucho	766,962	3.5
Cajamarca	1,652,073	7.5
Callao	418,261	1.9
Cusco	1,147,713	5.2
Huancavelica	580,892	2.6
Huánuco	729,553	3.3
Ica	595,235	2.7
Junín	1,185,301	5.4
La Libertad	1,320,230	6.0
Lambayeque	915,968	4.2
Lima	4,430,910	20.1
Loreto	742,717	3.4
Madre de Dios	45,655	0.2
Moquegua	114,228	0.5
Pasco	299,749	1.4
Piura	1,568,391	7.1
Puno	1,329,474	6.0
San Martín	474,024	2.1
Tacna	149,838	0.7
Tumbes	136,738	0.6
Ucayali	240,945	1.1
Abroad	52,725	0.2
Unspecified	223,385	1.0
Total	22,048,356	100%

Lima Metropolitan Area

The Lima Metropolitan Area

Lima Metropolitan Area

The Lima Metropolitan Area , is an area formed by the conurbation of the Peruvian cities of Lima and Callao. It is the largest metropolitan area in Peru, the eighth largest in the Americas, and among the thirty largest in the world. The conurbation process started to be evident in the 1980s. The...

 consists of the cities of Lima

Lima

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central part of the country, on a desert coast overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima...

 and Callao

Callao

Callao is the largest and most important port in Peru. The city is coterminous with the Constitutional Province of Callao, the only province of the Callao Region. Callao is located west of Lima, the country's capital, and is part of the Lima Metropolitan Area, a large metropolis that holds almost...

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Area	Population	% of country's population
Lima Metropolitan Area	6,434,323	28.4

Languages

Spanish

Spanish language

Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...

 is the most spoken language in the country, with 89.5% using it as their first language

First language

A first language is the language a person has learned from birth or within the critical period, or that a person speaks the best and so is often the basis for sociolinguistic identity...

, while Quechua is spoken at home by 16.5% of the population, 2.3% speak Aymara

Aymara language

Aymara is an Aymaran language spoken by the Aymara people of the Andes. It is one of only a handful of Native American languages with over three million speakers. Aymara, along with Quechua and Spanish, is an official language of Peru and Bolivia...

, 0.7% speak other indigenous

Indigenous peoples of the Americas

The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North and South America, their descendants and other ethnic groups who are identified with those peoples. Indigenous peoples are known in Canada as Aboriginal peoples, and in the United States as Native Americans...

languages, and 0.2% speak foreign languages.