Peru and Germany enjoy close and amicable political ties. As advocates of a rules-based international order, the two countries pursue intensive exchange, both bilaterally and in multilateral forums. Peru is a partner country of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development. Germany is the country’s most important bilateral donor, and the two countries maintain a climate partnership.

Three political foundations (Friedrich Ebert, Friedrich Naumann and Konrad Adenauer) are represented in Peru.

Peru’s economic growth over more than 20 years was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks to high world market prices for minerals such as gold and copper, the country’s GDP increased by 3.3% in 2025, an upwards trend that is expected to continue this year. Peru’s GDP, which nominally stands at approx. 7000 US dollars per capita, is generated through mining and industry (30%), trade and tourism (17%), construction (8%) and agriculture (8%), forestry and fisheries, and transport, logistics and communication (7%).

Since 1968, there has been a German-Peruvian Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Lima with around 280 member companies, and since 2014, the two countries have had a bilateral raw materials partnership. In September 2025, Germany was a partner country of “Perumin”, the region’s most important mining convention that is held in the city of Arequipa. German companies are successful above all in the distribution of technology. The largest investment is the extension of Lima airport by Fraport AG, which went into operation at the end of May 2025.

In the field of development cooperation, Germany has been working intensively with Peru for the last 63 years, and it is the largest bilateral donor. The five areas of development cooperation are climate protection/adaptation to climate change, biodiversity and forest conservation, good governance and sustainable urban development. The main focus is on cooperation in the spheres of climate action and environmental protection, based on the global agenda for sustainable development, as well as alignment with international standards in the context of Peru’s OECD accession process. At the 2022 intergovernmental negotiations on development policy, a political declaration on the climate and development partnership was signed with Peru – the first with a country in Latin America.

In the field of culture, the priorities are teaching German as a foreign language (three German schools, as well as ten schools of the Schools: Partners for the Future initiative, or PASCH, with a total of some 18,500 pupils learning German) and academic exchange (nearly 2000 Peruvian students in Germany).

There is a Goethe-Institut in Lima, and there are German-Peruvian cultural institutes in Arequipa and Cusco.