Dimensions
Six ways to read the same 419 territories. Each dimension draws on the source that measures it best, and says which one that is.
The dimensions
136 indicatorsPopulation and territory
How many people live where, in what households, and at what ages.
18,480,432Census population24.7/km²Population density38.1 yrsAverage age79.0Ageing index2024 censusCross-source13 indicatorsMigration
Where the people who live in each territory are from: those born outside Chile, from the census, and those who moved within it, from Casen.
50.5%Lives in the commune where they were born23.9%Came from another commune of the same region17.2%Came from another region8.7%Foreign-born share2024 censusCasen 202421 indicatorsEducation
Schooling attained, literacy, school attendance and what each cohort of school leavers goes on to study.
10.4 yrsAverage years of schooling31.1%Reached higher education55.6%Continues to higher education98.6%School attendance, ages 6-172024 censusSchool registersCasen 202425 indicatorsHealth
Who is hospitalised and who does not leave the hospital, from the discharge register, alongside insurance coverage and disability prevalence.
100In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio82.5Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents82.6%Public health insurance10.6%Disability prevalence2024 censusHospital dischargesCross-sourceCasen 202420 indicatorsEconomy and poverty
Firms, formal employment and pay from the tax register, alongside poverty as measured by Casen.
17.3%Income poverty32.0 UFAverage monthly pay85.6Firms per 1,000 residents78.9%Women's pay as share of men'sTax registerCasen 20242024 censusCross-source39 indicatorsHousing and services
Building materials, overcrowding, access to water, power and internet, and how far people live from an emergency room and a school.
5.7%Overcrowded dwellings93.2%Internet access2.3Average distance to a facility with an emergency service1.6Average distance to a school teaching upper secondary2024 censusPolitics sits outside the six: the 2025 election is a year past PuroChile's 2024 cross-section, so its figures are not indicators and are read on a page of their own. The 2025 elections →
Sources by dimension
55,867 figuresThe six dimensions are not six separate tables — they are six questions asked of the same 419 territories, and the ribbon widths say who answers each one. The census carries most of PuroChile; poverty and health access come from a sample survey that expands to a different population; pay, firms and formal employment come from a tax register that reaches back twenty years; and what each class of school leavers went on to study comes from two school registers joined on the id the ministry publishes in both. Health enters through two doors: who has Fonasa or a private insurer is what the survey says, and who ends up in a hospital bed is what the health ministry's discharge register says.
Width is the count of published figures, not of indicators: an indicator that exists for all 419 territories weighs more than one the source only publishes nationally. Casen and the census expand to different populations and are never multiplied together — the cross-source indicators declare it on their own row.