Oxfam analysis finds Peru’s richest captured 42 percent of all new wealth

The top 1 percent in Peru captured 42 percent of all new wealth generated between 2019 and 2025, an analysis by the nonprofit group Oxfam has found. The report, released on Tuesday, highlights growing inequality in the South American country and raises questions about how the government is addressing deepening social divisions. “Economic inequality in Peru has remained stubbornly high for decades. And when people feel that the same people always win, that nothing changes and nothing can change, inequality starts to look less like an injustice and more like the natural order of things,” said Alejandra Alayza, the executive director of Oxfam in Peru. “That is a dangerous kind of fatalism, and we must tear it down.