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Where the people here are from
Casen 2024 · 217,366 surveyedPopulation by sub-territory
Region → ProvinceEvery tile is a census count and the areas add up exactly: this is the same sum that produces Chile's own population figure, drawn instead of stated. One block per region, one tile per province — click a tile to open its profile, or a block's band to lay it out alone.
Employment survey
ENE · INE · 2010–2026Formal employment, 2005–2024
2005–2024 · Source SIIThe ten branches that employ most of Chile
Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.
Dependent workers, projected
Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.
Annual sales in UF, projected
UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.
What each region is strong in
2024 · SIIChile cannot be specialised against itself: measured against the country, the country is exactly 1× in everything. What it has is regions that do more of some things than the whole does. Each cell is a region's share of formal employment in a sector, divided by Chile's share — above one, that sector weighs more there than in the country. It is a mix, not a size: a region with twice of everything would have a row of ones.
What is most its own in each region
One level below the sectors: the three activities of the register most over-represented in each region, among those employing at least 500 people there. A sector says farming; this says sheep or salmon.
The Metropolitan region holds 60% of the country's formal employment, so it cannot reach much more than 1.7× in anything: there, specialisation looks like exclusivity rather than a large ratio, and its list is the activities that exist almost only in Santiago.
The register files a firm at its tax address, so a sector can be over-represented in a region because the work happens there or because the head office does. Both are real facts about a place and they are not the same fact, and nothing in the register tells them apart.
Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) on the formal employment the SII published for 2024. Every cell is arithmetic on published counts; nothing is estimated. Each region's own page has its full reading, against the same country.
The land and who works it
Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021Population and territory
See all →Population pyramid
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Census population | 18,480,432 |
Average age | 38.1 yrs |
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15. | 79.0 |
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography. | 24.7/km² |
See the other 13 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Households | 6,596,527 |
Dwellings | 7,642,716 |
People per household | 2.80 |
Women | 51.5% |
Men per 100 women | 94.3 |
Under 15 | 17.7% |
65 and over | 14.0% |
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age. | 46.5 |
One-person households | 21.8% |
Households with children | 33.2% |
Indigenous peoples | 11.4% |
Female-headed households | 49.9% |
Land area | 748,041 km² |
Migration
See all →When the migrant population arrived
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Foreign-born share | 8.7% |
Lives in the commune where they were born · Casen 2024 asks in which comuna each person's mother lived when they were born. It is lifetime migration, not last year's, and it measures origin, not moves: someone born here who left and came back counts as living where they were born. | 50.5% |
Came from another commune of the same region · Of those who live here, the ones born in another comuna of this same region. It is the short move: within the metropolitan area, the valley or the neighbouring province. | 23.9% |
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region. | 17.2% |
See the other 7 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Foreign-born population | 1,608,650 |
Average age, foreign-born | 33.5 yrs |
Women among foreign-born | 51.7% |
Foreign-born of working age | 83.1% |
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later. | 34.4% |
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna. | 10.6% |
Average schooling, foreign-born | 12.9 yrs |
Education
See all →How far schooling went
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Average years of schooling | 10.4 yrs |
Reached higher education | 31.1% |
School attendance, ages 6-17 | 98.6% |
Continues to higher education · Of young secondary-school graduates, those enrolled in first-year undergraduate studies the following March. By the comuna of the school where they finished secondary school, which is the approximation to origin that Mineduc publishes. | 55.6% |
See the other 17 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Women's schooling as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women in the territory completed fewer years than men. The census does not publish educational attainment split by sex at comuna level, so the higher-education gap is not in PuroChile: only the gap in years of schooling. | 99.8% |
Literacy rate | 97.8% |
Reached secondary education | 36.7% |
Primary education only | 24.1% |
Never attended school | 3.01% |
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country. | 12.1 yrs |
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men. | 12.1 yrs |
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write. | 2.18% |
Households lacking schooling | 15.1% |
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart. | 217,565 |
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks. | 33.9% |
Leaves from a rural school · By the school's own rural classification. A zero here is a measured zero —the comuna had a graduating class and none of its graduates came from a rural school—, not a cell without data: two in three comunas are in that situation. There is no continuation rate split by rural and urban because the median comuna's rural divisor does not reach thirty graduates. | 3.1% |
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 67.2% |
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 19.7% |
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100. | 13.1% |
Of those continuing, studies outside their region · Compares the region of the school they graduated from with the region of the campus where they enrol. A campus is not necessarily where the student lives. | 13.0% |
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue. | 49.7% |
The class of 2024
Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school inApproximation: the comuna is the one this cohort was enrolled in for secondary school, which is what Mineduc publishes — not a home address, which it does not.
The ten programmes they enrolled in most
Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued — not a headcount, so a commune of a few hundred can be read beside a country of 121,050. Programme names as the register writes them: in capitals and without accents, and unmerged, since SIES publishes 1,481 distinct names in a single year and two spellings of one degree stay two rows. Only the capitals are undone here.
By field of study
The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued.
Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024
Only enrolment the following March counts — someone who works for a year and starts after that is not here, so the rate is a floor under how many ever study, not an estimate of it. Adult secondary education is counted separately and is not in these figures.
Health
See all →The hospital figures come from DEIS's discharge register: one row per completed stay, in any establishment in the country, counted in the commune where the patient lives rather than where the hospital is. It counts stays, not people — someone admitted three times is three of them.
The deaths it records are the ones that happened during a stay. Deaths at home or in the street are in the vital statistics register, which is a different DEIS release and is not in PuroChile — so nothing here is this place's mortality, and every label says «hospitalaria» for that reason.
The two standardised ratios are the ones meant for comparing places: they hold Chile against what its own age and sex structure would produce at the country's rates, with Chile fixed at 100. A commune of older people buries more people than a commune of young families, and that is demography, not health.
In 2024, 7.5% of the country's discharges arrive with every identifying field replaced by an asterisk and cannot be attached to any commune; what is counted here is the 91.4% that carries one.
Which health system
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Disability prevalence | 10.6% |
Public health insurance | 82.6% |
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby. | 82.5 |
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 100 |
See the other 21 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
People with a disability | 1,950,388 |
Average age, people with a disability | 56.4 yrs |
Disability among 65+ | 43.0% |
Difficulty walking | 4.92% |
Difficulty seeing | 4.58% |
Difficulty hearing | 2.16% |
Difficulty concentrating | 2.70% |
Private health insurance | 13.2% |
No health coverage | 1.98% |
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months. | 92.1% |
Households lacking health access | 6.0% |
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times. | 1,523,716 |
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register. | 36,698 |
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death. | 2.41% |
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up. | 6.1 days |
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older. | 19.9 |
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. | 100 |
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people. | 89,723 |
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour. | 5.9% |
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is. | 48.6 |
Cancer hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex. It is the only one of the four made for comparing places. | 100 |
What people are hospitalised for
By tumour site
Economy and poverty
See all →| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line. | 17.3% |
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked. | 32.0 UF |
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job. | 78.9% |
Firms per 1,000 residents · Firms with their registered address or head office in the territory; in comunas where large firms are registered the figure reflects the head office, not the activity. | 85.6 |
See the other 16 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over. | 54.4% |
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently. | 8.6% |
Self-employed | 33.8% |
Extreme poverty | 6.9% |
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks. | 17.7% |
Unemployment rate | 8.8% |
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income. | CLP 783,124 |
Gini coefficient · 0 is a perfectly equal split and 1 a perfectly unequal one. On household per-capita income (ypchtotcor). A survey estimate: in comunas with a small sample the interval is wide. | 0.488 |
Registered firms | 1,582,390 |
Annual sales | 34,347,683,688 UF |
Employees reported · People reported at some point in the tax year, not average employment: the national total exceeds the employed because someone who worked two months counts the same as someone who worked twelve. | 9,699,164 |
Sales per firm | 21,706 UF |
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions. | 3.9 |
Women among employees | 40.6% |
Independent contractors | 3,958,269 |
Contractors as share of workers | 29.0% |
Employment by industry
Employment by occupation
Housing and services
See all →House or flat
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Overcrowded dwellings | 5.7% |
Internet access | 93.2% |
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 2.3 |
Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 1.6 |
See the other 35 indicators
| Indicator | Value |
|---|---|
Occupied dwellings with residents | 6,408,172 |
Critically overcrowded | 0.57% |
Irrecoverable dwellings | 1.13% |
Public water network | 92.3% |
Electricity access | 99.6% |
Detached houses | 78.7% |
Apartments | 19.9% |
Precarious wall materials | 0.23% |
Unoccupied private dwellings | 11.9% |
Quantitative housing deficit | 491,904 |
Housing deficit as share of households | 7.5% |
Renting households | 26.2% |
Owner-occupiers | 61.1% |
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south. | 24.4% |
Commute by public transport | 42.1% |
Walks to work | 10.2% |
Households with a computer | 54.9% |
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 1.1 |
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 97.0% |
People within 15 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 99.9% |
People within 30 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 100.0% |
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 89.4% |
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 98.1% |
People within 30 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 99.7% |
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 5.9 |
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 80.3% |
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 90.0% |
People within 30 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026. | 96.2% |
Average distance to a school in operation · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in 2025. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line. | 0.6 |
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 99.0% |
People within 15 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 99.9% |
People within 30 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 100.0% |
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 91.6% |
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 98.5% |
People within 30 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 30 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025. | 99.8% |
How people commute
Housing tenure
Home heating fuel
How it voted in 2025
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Territories within
16| Region | Census population | Foreign-born share | Average years of schooling | Income poverty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arica y Parinacota | 244,569 | 14.8% | 10.4 yrs | 21.4% |
| Tarapacá | 369,806 | 23.0% | 10.1 yrs | 20.8% |
| Antofagasta | 635,416 | 19.5% | 10.5 yrs | 16.4% |
| Atacama | 299,180 | 8.4% | 9.9 yrs | 18.6% |
| Coquimbo | 832,864 | 5.4% | 10.1 yrs | 20.7% |
| Valparaíso | 1,896,053 | 5.3% | 10.6 yrs | 17.8% |
| Metropolitana | 7,400,741 | 13.0% | 10.9 yrs | 13.3% |
| O'Higgins | 987,228 | 5.0% | 9.8 yrs | 17.9% |
| Maule | 1,123,008 | 3.8% | 9.5 yrs | 24.3% |
| Ñuble | 512,289 | 2.1% | 9.6 yrs | 23.9% |
| Biobío | 1,613,059 | 2.9% | 10.3 yrs | 19.3% |
| Araucanía | 1,010,423 | 2.1% | 9.7 yrs | 28.6% |
| Los Ríos | 398,230 | 1.9% | 9.9 yrs | 22.3% |
| Los Lagos | 890,284 | 4.0% | 9.8 yrs | 16.5% |
| Aysén | 100,745 | 3.9% | 9.9 yrs | 14.3% |
| Magallanes | 166,537 | 6.6% | 10.7 yrs | 9.9% |
| Chile | 18,480,432 | 8.7% | 10.4 yrs | 17.3% |