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South America > Peru > Government

PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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Capital city
Lima
Corruption 3.5 [68th of 160]
Parliamentary seats > Female 11% [58th of 143]
Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > % 29.2 % ... [22nd of 174]
Start-up procedures to register a business > number 10 ... [63rd of 171]
Status
democracy
Suffrage
18 years of age; universal and compulsory until the age of 70; note - for the first time in recent elections, members of the military and national police were eligible to vote in the 2006 elections
Time required to build a warehouse > days 201 days ... [72nd of 168]
Time required to enforce a contract > days 300 days ... [137th of 171]
Time required to register property > days 33 days ... [114th of 167]
Time required to start a business > days 72 days ... [27th of 171]
Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours 424 hours ... [35th of 169]
Time to resolve insolvency > years 3.1 years ... [63rd of 151]
Total businesses registered > number 2,675,500 ... [9th of 71]
Trademarks, nonresidents 5,661 ... [13th of 99]
Trademarks, residents 8,227 ... [18th of 98]
Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
Chile and Ecuador rejected Peru's November 2005 unilateral legislation to shift the axis of their joint treaty-defined maritime boundaries along the parallels of latitude to equidistance lines which favor Peru; organized illegal narcotics operations in Colombia have penetrated Peru's shared border; Peru rejects Bolivia's claim to restore maritime access through a sovereign corridor through Chile along the Peruvian border
UN membership date 31 Oct. 1945
United Nations mission
http://www.peruembassy-uk.com/
Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood Embassy Row

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SOURCES: CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Transparency International; United Nations World Statistics Pocketbook and Statistical Yearbook; World Development Indicators database; electionworld.org; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; Wisconsin High School Model United Nations; Wikipedia: List of Washington, D.C. embassies

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Peru, Republic of Peru, Republica del Peru

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