What does Peru produce and export?

What does Peru produce?

What does Peru export?

Peru's own tracked-export mix

Unlike the chart above, this treemap sizes each commodity by its share of Peru's own $49.5 billion of tracked exports, not by world trade. Copper alone is 42% of it. See the full export dependency report for how Peru compares with other countries.

Top-ten importer of

• Cinnamon: #4, 2.7% of world imports, $22.8 million (2024)
• Cloves: #10, 1.9% of world imports, $12.1 million (2024)

Sources: FAOSTAT (crops and livestock), USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries (minerals), Energy Institute Statistical Review (energy) for production; CEPII BACI for trade. Ranks count only the commodities on this site.

Peru commodity by commodity

One page for each commodity where Peru is a top-five producer or exporter with at least 3% of the world total.

• Arsenic #1 producer
• Avocados #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Copper #3 producer, #2 exporter
• Fishmeal #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Ginger #2 exporter
• Grapes #1 exporter
• Lead #3 producer
• Mangoes #4 exporter
• Molybdenum #4 producer, #2 exporter
• Phosphate rock #3 exporter
• Quinoa #1 producer, #1 exporter
• Silver #2 producer
• Tin #3 producer, #2 exporter
• Zinc #2 producer

Peru in the pattern reports

What the cross-commodity reports under Patterns say about Peru, computed from the same data as this page.

What Peru uses

Peru had about 34 million people and a food supply of 2,811 kilocalories per person a day in FAO's 2023 food balance sheets. Its eight largest supplies among the commodities tracked there:

FAO reports a negative domestic supply for Peru's olive oil (−3 thousand tonnes; production 0 tonnes, imports 1 thousand tonnes, exports 4 thousand tonnes), meaning exports exceed production plus imports in the year. These are not counted as use and are left out of the table above.

FAOSTAT Food Balance Sheets. Per-person rank counts countries of at least 1 million people. See consumption and self-sufficiency.

Who supplies Peru

• Single-supplier markets. Peru buys half or more of its imports from one country in 3 of 5 import markets of $250 million or more, among them corn from Argentina (97%, $991 million); wheat from Canada (75%, $616 million); natural gas from United States (82%, $343 million). Import dependency.

How long Peru's own reserves would last

• Molybdenum: Peru's reserves are about 26 years of its own output at the current rate (15% of world output, 5.8% of world reserves), against 66 years for the world.
• Silver: Peru's reserves are about 31 years of its own output at the current rate (14% of world output, 18% of world reserves), against 23 years for the world.
• Copper: Peru's reserves are about 31 years of its own output at the current rate (12% of world output, 8.7% of world reserves), against 43 years for the world.
• Zinc: Peru's reserves are about 12 years of its own output at the current rate (12% of world output, 7.5% of world reserves), against 18 years for the world.
• Tin: Peru's reserves are about 5 years of its own output at the current rate (11% of world output, 2.5% of world reserves), against 21 years for the world.

USGS national reserve figures, rounded. A short national figure usually reflects how little has been proved up, not when mining stops. See country reserve life.

Peru and critical minerals

Peru is the largest producer of 1 mineral on a US or EU critical list, each at 20% or more of world output: arsenic (49%, 2025). Source: the concentration report on USGS, FAOSTAT and Energy Institute production.

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This country's rankings as JSON · PDF summary. Cite as: Commodity Origins, "What does Peru produce and export?", https://commodityorigins.com/countries/PER/ (CC BY 4.0).

Data updated 22 October 2026.

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