The 2017 Peru Census was a detailed enumeration and twelfth national population census of Peru.

It was conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística e Informática[3] on Sunday, October 22, 2017.

The census form had 47 questions referring to households and basic services, housing, methods of travel and formation of families; such as gender, disability and ethnicity.

[4] A question on ethnic self-identification was included in the 2017 census.

[8] Note: ‘Other’ religions such as Buddhist, Hindu, Islam.