What is the difference in population between Mozambique and Peru?

210,400 people, with Peru ahead.

How many years of comparable data are there for Mozambique and Peru?

241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.

Where does this data come from?

HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

Mozambique vs Peru: Population

Mozambique

33.64 million people

in 2023

Peru

33.85 million people

in 2023

Mozambique rank

48th

Peru rank

46th

Population over time

Mozambique
Peru

How they compare

Peru currently reports 33.85 million people against 33.64 million people in Mozambique, a difference of 210,400 people.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 241 shared years of data; in 1000 it was Peru ahead.

Mozambique ranks 48th and Peru ranks 46th of 239 countries.

Across the 40 decades both report, Mozambique averaged higher in 20 and Peru in 20.

Head to head by decade

Decade	Mozambique	Peru	Difference	Ahead
1000s	300,000 people	3.00 million people	2.70 million people	Peru
1100s	440,000 people	3.20 million people	2.76 million people	Peru
1200s	580,000 people	3.40 million people	2.82 million people	Peru
1300s	720,000 people	3.60 million people	2.88 million people	Peru
1400s	860,000 people	3.80 million people	2.94 million people	Peru
1500s	1.00 million people	4.00 million people	3.00 million people	Peru
1600s	1.25 million people	1.30 million people	50,000 people	Peru
1700s	1.50 million people	1.50 million people	490 people	Peru
1710s	1.55 million people	1.48 million people	65,400 people	Mozambique
1720s	1.60 million people	1.47 million people	131,110 people	Mozambique
1730s	1.65 million people	1.45 million people	196,650 people	Mozambique
1740s	1.70 million people	1.44 million people	262,020 people	Mozambique
1750s	1.75 million people	1.42 million people	327,210 people	Mozambique
1760s	1.80 million people	1.41 million people	392,250 people	Mozambique
1770s	1.85 million people	1.39 million people	457,110 people	Mozambique
1780s	1.90 million people	1.38 million people	521,810 people	Mozambique
1790s	1.95 million people	1.36 million people	586,350 people	Mozambique
1800s	2.02 million people	1.28 million people	740,030 people	Mozambique
1810s	2.07 million people	1.30 million people	765,997 people	Mozambique
1820s	2.38 million people	1.34 million people	1.04 million people	Mozambique
1830s	3.13 million people	1.70 million people	1.42 million people	Mozambique
1840s	4.10 million people	2.66 million people	1.44 million people	Mozambique
1850s	4.72 million people	2.94 million people	1.78 million people	Mozambique
1860s	4.67 million people	2.55 million people	2.12 million people	Mozambique
1870s	4.55 million people	2.76 million people	1.79 million people	Mozambique
1880s	4.48 million people	3.13 million people	1.35 million people	Mozambique
1890s	4.38 million people	3.48 million people	899,515 people	Mozambique
1900s	4.09 million people	3.86 million people	227,433 people	Mozambique
1910s	3.81 million people	4.38 million people	570,766 people	Peru
1920s	3.98 million people	5.04 million people	1.06 million people	Peru
1930s	4.59 million people	5.90 million people	1.31 million people	Peru
1940s	5.38 million people	6.96 million people	1.59 million people	Peru
1950s	6.25 million people	8.73 million people	2.49 million people	Peru
1960s	7.35 million people	11.62 million people	4.27 million people	Peru
1970s	9.49 million people	15.17 million people	5.68 million people	Peru
1980s	12.30 million people	19.42 million people	7.13 million people	Peru
1990s	15.36 million people	24.11 million people	8.75 million people	Peru
2000s	20.14 million people	27.89 million people	7.74 million people	Peru
2010s	26.28 million people	30.49 million people	4.21 million people	Peru
2020s	32.20 million people	33.33 million people	1.13 million people	Peru

Averages of every year both report within each decade.

Frequently asked questions

Which has higher population, Mozambique or Peru?: Peru, at 33.85 million people against 33.64 million people in Mozambique as of 2023.
What is the difference in population between Mozambique and Peru?: 210,400 people, with Peru ahead.
How many years of comparable data are there for Mozambique and Peru?: 241 years are reported by both, from 1000 to 2023.
How do Mozambique and Peru rank globally for population?: Mozambique ranks 48th and Peru ranks 46th of 239 countries.
Where does this data come from?: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as Population. Statizoid refreshes it automatically from the source and publishes the full history for both places.

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Indicator: Population
Unit: people
Source: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 239 places, 51,002 data points, 1000–2023
Last refreshed: 18 September 2026

Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources.