Peru

Peru has one of the Americas' largest Indigenous populations — Quechua and Aymara — alongside Mestizo, European, African, and Asian communities. Spanish is the official language, along with Quechua and Aymara.

Roman Catholicism is the traditional faith, often blended with Andean traditions, with a growing Protestant minority.

Society

Peru has a young population and rising but uneven literacy and incomes, with sharp divides between a modernizing coast, the Andean highlands, and the Amazon, amid persistent political instability.