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International relations

Chile and the world

Chile sold to 167 countries and territories in January–July 2026; its largest buyer was China, with 34% of exports. The 2024 census counted 1,608,650 people born outside Chile living here, 1,089,357 of whom arrived since 2017. And 160,935 Chileans are registered to vote from 149 countries.

Aduanas · Censo 2024 · Casen 2024 · SERVEL · How it is measured

US$ 79,218 M
exported, January–July 2026
US$ 51,688 M
imported, January–July 2026
1,608,650
born abroad live in Chile · Censo 2024
160,935
Chileans registered abroad · SERVEL 2025

Chile and each country, on a map

Aduanas · Censo 2024 · SERVEL

Four registers, one at a time: what Chile sells and buys, who was born there and lives here, and how many Chileans vote from there. Point at a country to see everything they say about it; click to open its page.

Chile sells160 countries
  1. ChinaUS$ 27,251 M34%
  2. United StatesUS$ 13,527 M17%
  3. JapanUS$ 6,938 M8.8%
  4. South KoreaUS$ 4,136 M5.2%
  5. IndiaUS$ 3,778 M4.8%
  6. BrazilUS$ 3,140 M4.0%
  7. SwitzerlandUS$ 1,652 M2.1%
  8. SpainUS$ 1,458 M1.8%
  9. PeruUS$ 1,437 M1.8%
  10. GermanyUS$ 1,246 M1.6%

and 150 more on the map

FOB exports, January–July 2026. Each line joins Chile and a country; its width and the country's shade say how much was sold to it. A relationship, not a route.

Chile buys155 countries
  1. ChinaUS$ 13,366 M26%
  2. United StatesUS$ 10,204 M20%
  3. BrazilUS$ 4,690 M9.1%
  4. ArgentinaUS$ 4,460 M8.6%
  5. GermanyUS$ 1,718 M3.3%
  6. PeruUS$ 1,343 M2.6%
  7. SpainUS$ 1,120 M2.2%
  8. JapanUS$ 1,057 M2.0%
  9. ItalyUS$ 974 M1.9%
  10. MexicoUS$ 898 M1.7%

and 145 more on the map

CIF imports, January–July 2026, by the goods' country of origin. The lines arrive in Chile; they are not routes.

Born there6 countries
  1. Venezuela669,40842%
  2. Peru233,43215%
  3. Colombia197,81312%
  4. Bolivia168,08310%
  5. Haiti80,7815.0%
  6. Argentina70,2664.4%

2024 census: people born in each country who live in Chile. INE names six countries; the other 188,867 born abroad are grouped by continent, and a group is never split among its countries, so they have no line.

Chileans there149 countries
  1. United States26,16516%
  2. Spain21,08113%
  3. Argentina19,00312%
  4. Canada13,4868.4%
  5. Australia11,6457.2%
  6. Germany9,6846.0%
  7. France5,5333.4%
  8. Sweden5,2453.3%
  9. United Kingdom4,0862.5%
  10. Brazil3,9582.5%

and 139 more on the map

Chileans on SERVEL's roll abroad for November 2025. A floor for the Chileans living abroad: whoever did not register is not here.

Every country

177 countries with a page

Every country some Chilean register names, by continent and ordered by what it traded with Chile in January–July 2026. «Born there» is the 2024 census figure, which names six countries; «—» is a country the census counts within its continent.

Americas · 39

CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
United StatesUS$ 13,527 millionUS$ 10,204 million—26,165
BrazilUS$ 3,140 millionUS$ 4,690 million—3,958
ArgentinaUS$ 685 millionUS$ 4,460 million70,26619,003
PeruUS$ 1,437 millionUS$ 1,343 million233,4322,501
MexicoUS$ 1,143 millionUS$ 898 million—3,139
CanadaUS$ 1,233 millionUS$ 447 million—13,486
ColombiaUS$ 752 millionUS$ 673 million197,8131,045
EcuadorUS$ 450 millionUS$ 858 million—1,446
ParaguayUS$ 108 millionUS$ 614 million—670
BoliviaUS$ 244 millionUS$ 73.4 million168,0831,687
UruguayUS$ 139 millionUS$ 122 million—913
Costa RicaUS$ 233 millionUS$ 21.2 million—936
The other 27 countries of Americas
CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
GuatemalaUS$ 132 millionUS$ 61.7 million—270
Trinidad & TobagoUS$ 9.2 millionUS$ 181 million—6
PanamaUS$ 163 millionUS$ 18.3 million—697
Dominican RepublicUS$ 86.4 millionUS$ 9.6 million—305
VenezuelaUS$ 64.5 millionUS$ 6.3 million669,4081,210
Puerto RicoUS$ 58.4 millionUS$ 10.6 million—87
El SalvadorUS$ 46.2 millionUS$ 5.0 million—192
HondurasUS$ 36.5 millionUS$ 2.7 million—123
NicaraguaUS$ 16.7 millionUS$ 3.3 million—98
JamaicaUS$ 17.2 millionUS$ 35 thousand—14
CubaUS$ 12.3 millionUS$ 1.2 million—110
BarbadosUS$ 7.5 millionUS$ 34 thousand——
Cayman IslandsUS$ 7.2 million——4
GuyanaUS$ 4.6 millionUS$ 17 thousand—5
British Virgin IslandsUS$ 1.6 millionUS$ 7 thousand——
BelizeUS$ 1.4 millionUS$ 189—1
HaitiUS$ 1.1 millionUS$ 224 thousand80,78118
MartiniqueUS$ 1.2 millionUS$ 16—1
BahamasUS$ 1.0 millionUS$ 2 thousand—1
ArubaUS$ 970 thousandUS$ 31 thousand—4
BermudaUS$ 659 thousandUS$ 2 thousand—2
SurinameUS$ 539 thousandUS$ 2 thousand—1
St. LuciaUS$ 498 thousand———
Antigua & BarbudaUS$ 440 thousandUS$ 2 thousand—1
Turks & Caicos IslandsUS$ 31 thousand——2
Curaçao———3
Guadeloupe———2

Europe · 49

CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
GermanyUS$ 1,246 millionUS$ 1,718 million—9,684
SpainUS$ 1,458 millionUS$ 1,120 million—21,081
SwitzerlandUS$ 1,652 millionUS$ 219 million—3,030
ItalyUS$ 680 millionUS$ 974 million—2,971
NetherlandsUS$ 1,226 millionUS$ 296 million—2,081
FranceUS$ 774 millionUS$ 528 million—5,533
United KingdomUS$ 503 millionUS$ 377 million—4,086
BelgiumUS$ 638 millionUS$ 224 million—1,582
BulgariaUS$ 651 millionUS$ 65.6 million—12
SwedenUS$ 379 millionUS$ 287 million—5,245
FinlandUS$ 362 millionUS$ 233 million—449
NorwayUS$ 133 millionUS$ 238 million—885
The other 37 countries of Europe
CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
TürkiyeUS$ 77.3 millionUS$ 257 million—58
PolandUS$ 134 millionUS$ 187 million—256
DenmarkUS$ 93.3 millionUS$ 191 million—849
RussiaUS$ 245 millionUS$ 32.0 million—99
IrelandUS$ 62.1 millionUS$ 170 million—2,740
AustriaUS$ 14.2 millionUS$ 163 million—866
PortugalUS$ 44.9 millionUS$ 101 million—1,409
CzechiaUS$ 10.4 millionUS$ 86.3 million—277
LithuaniaUS$ 35.1 millionUS$ 28.1 million—18
HungaryUS$ 2.2 millionUS$ 47.9 million—260
ArmeniaUS$ 712 thousandUS$ 40.3 million——
GreeceUS$ 17.9 millionUS$ 16.8 million—177
LuxembourgUS$ 27.2 millionUS$ 6.5 million—142
SloveniaUS$ 1.6 millionUS$ 22.9 million—14
RomaniaUS$ 5.2 millionUS$ 18.6 million—95
MaltaUS$ 18.8 millionUS$ 4.2 million—77
LatviaUS$ 11.6 millionUS$ 6.3 million—3
BelarusUS$ 15.2 millionUS$ 264 thousand——
UkraineUS$ 9.2 millionUS$ 5.1 million—12
EstoniaUS$ 3.8 millionUS$ 8.0 million—48
GeorgiaUS$ 6.0 millionUS$ 1.0 million—1
SerbiaUS$ 1.1 millionUS$ 5.2 million—33
CroatiaUS$ 1.5 millionUS$ 3.8 million—203
IcelandUS$ 631 thousandUS$ 4.1 million—22
AlbaniaUS$ 1.6 millionUS$ 193 thousand—3
MoldovaUS$ 1.2 millionUS$ 265 thousand——
Bosnia & HerzegovinaUS$ 387 thousandUS$ 720 thousand—3
North MacedoniaUS$ 539 thousandUS$ 392 thousand—1
LiechtensteinUS$ 353 thousandUS$ 468 thousand—5
Isle of ManUS$ 351 thousand——2
AndorraUS$ 16 thousandUS$ 167 thousand—155
GibraltarUS$ 147 thousand——2
San Marino—US$ 142 thousand—1
MonacoUS$ 2 thousandUS$ 1 thousand—1
Montenegro—US$ 2 thousand—5
Slovakia———12
Faroe Islands———2

Asia · 44

CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
ChinaUS$ 27,251 millionUS$ 13,366 million—332
JapanUS$ 6,938 millionUS$ 1,057 million—639
South KoreaUS$ 4,136 millionUS$ 830 million—241
IndiaUS$ 3,778 millionUS$ 805 million—61
VietnamUS$ 216 millionUS$ 875 million—40
ThailandUS$ 223 millionUS$ 383 million—89
TaiwanUS$ 384 millionUS$ 146 million—49
IndonesiaUS$ 82.6 millionUS$ 301 million—60
MalaysiaUS$ 151 millionUS$ 136 million—27
BangladeshUS$ 31.8 millionUS$ 129 million——
IsraelUS$ 97.2 millionUS$ 51.3 million—599
United Arab EmiratesUS$ 56.8 millionUS$ 61.3 million—237
The other 32 countries of Asia
CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
SingaporeUS$ 63.8 millionUS$ 49.4 million—92
CambodiaUS$ 47.7 millionUS$ 45.7 million—6
PhilippinesUS$ 44.3 millionUS$ 33.9 million—37
Hong Kong SAR ChinaUS$ 55.8 millionUS$ 14.4 million—81
PakistanUS$ 14.9 millionUS$ 50.9 million—2
Saudi ArabiaUS$ 57.5 millionUS$ 5.9 million—25
Sri LankaUS$ 2.5 millionUS$ 36.4 million——
KazakhstanUS$ 6.0 millionUS$ 18.1 million—3
OmanUS$ 1.0 millionUS$ 23.0 million—1
MaldivesUS$ 23.6 million———
CyprusUS$ 18.6 millionUS$ 3.0 million—11
Turkmenistan—US$ 19.0 million——
BahrainUS$ 16.0 millionUS$ 9 thousand—9
BruneiUS$ 714 thousandUS$ 15.3 million——
Myanmar (Burma)US$ 382 thousandUS$ 7.0 million—1
JordanUS$ 4.6 millionUS$ 2.6 million—26
LebanonUS$ 4.3 millionUS$ 282 thousand—39
KuwaitUS$ 2.7 millionUS$ 10 thousand—3
Iran—US$ 1.6 million—4
IraqUS$ 1.6 millionUS$ 9 thousand—1
AzerbaijanUS$ 950 thousandUS$ 3 thousand—1
QatarUS$ 872 thousandUS$ 36 thousand—53
LaosUS$ 229 thousandUS$ 640 thousand—2
MongoliaUS$ 560 thousandUS$ 25 thousand—1
Palestinian TerritoriesUS$ 344 thousandUS$ 48 thousand—14
UzbekistanUS$ 66 thousandUS$ 192 thousand—1
NepalUS$ 204 thousandUS$ 3 thousand——
SyriaUS$ 113 thousandUS$ 79 thousand—6
Afghanistan—US$ 11 thousand—3
KyrgyzstanUS$ 223——1
North Korea———1
Timor-Leste———2

Oceania · 10

CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
AustraliaUS$ 214 millionUS$ 224 million—11,645
New ZealandUS$ 39.1 millionUS$ 40.8 million—3,620
GuamUS$ 1.6 million———
French PolynesiaUS$ 964 thousandUS$ 29 thousand—4
Northern Mariana IslandsUS$ 739 thousandUS$ 2 thousand——
TongaUS$ 298 thousandUS$ 467——
New CaledoniaUS$ 263 thousandUS$ 90—2
SamoaUS$ 145 thousandUS$ 273—1
FijiUS$ 80 thousandUS$ 56 thousand—2
Vanuatu———2

Africa · 35

CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
Côte d’IvoireUS$ 126 millionUS$ 523 thousand——
South AfricaUS$ 51.1 millionUS$ 43.8 million—103
Burkina FasoUS$ 75.8 million———
NigeriaUS$ 67.5 millionUS$ 137 thousand—1
EgyptUS$ 44.3 millionUS$ 9.9 million—62
AlgeriaUS$ 31.6 millionUS$ 360 thousand—10
MoroccoUS$ 14.3 millionUS$ 11.1 million—19
GhanaUS$ 19.4 millionUS$ 148 thousand—3
CameroonUS$ 7.9 millionUS$ 36 thousand——
TunisiaUS$ 2.1 millionUS$ 4.3 million—1
Congo - BrazzavilleUS$ 6.2 millionUS$ 26 thousand——
TogoUS$ 4.5 millionUS$ 640——
The other 23 countries of Africa
CountryChile sellsChile buysBorn there, in ChileChileans registered there
LiberiaUS$ 3.7 million———
KenyaUS$ 2.3 millionUS$ 897 thousand—23
ZambiaUS$ 839 thousandUS$ 610 thousand—1
LibyaUS$ 1.4 millionUS$ 3 thousand——
NamibiaUS$ 1.2 millionUS$ 87 thousand—2
Gambia—US$ 1.3 million——
MauritaniaUS$ 1.2 million———
ZimbabweUS$ 20 thousandUS$ 1.2 million——
MadagascarUS$ 156 thousandUS$ 698 thousand—1
TanzaniaUS$ 109 thousandUS$ 687 thousand—2
MauritiusUS$ 618 thousandUS$ 73 thousand—2
MozambiqueUS$ 573 thousandUS$ 69 thousand—22
NigerUS$ 587 thousandUS$ 5 thousand——
GabonUS$ 490 thousandUS$ 70 thousand—1
AngolaUS$ 447 thousandUS$ 2 thousand——
SenegalUS$ 91 thousandUS$ 212 thousand——
Ethiopia—US$ 272 thousand—4
Equatorial GuineaUS$ 134 thousand——1
Congo - KinshasaUS$ 73 thousandUS$ 66—1
Cape VerdeUS$ 8 thousandUS$ 61 thousand—1
Mayotte———1
Réunion———1
South Sudan———1

FOB exports and CIF imports, January–July 2026. Countries that moved less than US$ 1.0 million with Chile over every month of the databases have no trade profile; their page shows what the other sources say. Foreign trade in full →

Who came, and when

Censo 2024

Place of birth

  1. Venezuela669,40842%
  2. Peru233,43215%
  3. Colombia197,81312%
  4. Bolivia168,08310%
  5. Haiti80,7815.0%
  6. Argentina70,2664.4%
  7. Rest of South America78,8604.9%
  8. Rest of Central America and the Caribbean40,5592.5%
  9. Europe33,5632.1%
  10. Asia20,0471.2%
  11. North America11,3290.7%
  12. Africa1,5800.1%
  13. Oceania1,4770.1%
  14. Country of birth not stated1,4520.1%

Period of arrival in Chile

  1. Before 199036,8112.3%
  2. 1990–199954,0263.4%
  3. 2000–2009121,5537.6%
  4. 2010–2013111,4856.9%
  5. 2014–2016190,15812%
  6. 2017–2019533,68933%
  7. 2020–2022366,87823%
  8. 2023–2024188,79012%

Usual residents born outside Chile: 1,608,650, 8.7% of the census population. INE publishes six countries by name and groups the rest by continent; they are shown that way here, never splitting a group among its countries. Every birthplace adds up, comuna by comuna, to the figure INE published.

How they live, by where they were born

Casen 2024
Born inPeopleSurveyedYears of schoolingEmploymentUnemploymentPovertyFonasaUninsured
Born in Chile18,342,941203,24112.155.8%9.1%16.7%82.8%1.3%
Born abroad, all1,678,40414,15713.175.0%6.3%23.4%80.8%8.8%
Venezuela741,2085,18113.978.1%5.3%20.0%81.0%9.6%
Bolivia155,5682,51011.269.1%5.7%38.8%79.5%16.2%
Peru242,2491,97912.274.6%6.8%27.1%90.2%4.8%
Colombia191,4951,69112.373.8%8.2%23.4%80.7%10.2%
Argentina73,37776813.373.8%7.0%15.6%74.9%6.5%
Ecuador59,54750712.976.9%9.1%23.0%83.6%7.6%
Haiti76,56446711.072.9%7.7%42.6%95.0%3.4%
Born in other countries138,3961,05414.568.3%6.8%12.0%58.4%6.5%

People: expanded population; surveyed: sample cases. Years of schooling of those aged 15+; employment over the population aged 15+; unemployment over the labour force; income poverty; Fonasa and uninsured over the whole population. Survey estimates. A country of birth has its own row with at least 300 people surveyed; the rest are in «other countries». The Casen expands to projections based on the 2017 census, so its totals are not the 2024 census's. 2024 poverty uses the new methodology and is not compared with earlier years.

Money from relatives abroad

Casen 2024
47,204
households received it the month before · 0.7% of households
$11.9 billion
in all, that month · pesos
2.4%
of households with someone born abroad · 0.5% of the rest

Households that reported receiving money from relatives living outside Chile in the month before the interview, and how much. What households send abroad is not asked by the Casen and is not here. A survey estimate from 412 households that reported receiving it.

Where Chileans vote from

SERVEL 2025
  1. United States26,16516%
  2. Spain21,08113%
  3. Argentina19,00312%
  4. Canada13,4868.4%
  5. Australia11,6457.2%
  6. Germany9,6846.0%
  7. France5,5333.4%
  8. Sweden5,2453.3%
  9. United Kingdom4,0862.5%
  10. Brazil3,9582.5%
  11. New Zealand3,6202.2%
  12. Mexico3,1392.0%
  13. Switzerland3,0301.9%
  14. Italy2,9711.8%
  15. Ireland2,7401.7%
  16. Peru2,5011.6%
  17. Netherlands2,0811.3%
  18. Bolivia1,6871.0%
  19. Belgium1,5821.0%
  20. Ecuador1,4460.9%

160,935 Chileans on the definitive roll abroad for the November 2025 elections, in 149 countries; above, the twenty with most. It is a floor for the Chileans living abroad: whoever did not register is in no table. The 2025 elections →

How it is measured

Four registers, no index
Every figure is a sum of what a Chilean body published: Aduanas (trade), INE (2024 census), the Ministry of Social Development (Casen 2024) and SERVEL (the roll abroad). No «relationship» index joins them: they are shown side by side.
The map
A line joins Chile and a country and says how much: a relationship, not the route of a ship or a person. Each country's shade is the same figure on a log scale, so a small partner does not vanish next to China. The world outline is Natural Earth's (public domain), in the Equal Earth projection, which keeps area: no country looks bigger for being far from the equator. The outline contributes no figure.
Born abroad
The census and the Casen ask where the mother lived when the person was born. That is the definition of born abroad in both, and the Ministry's, whose tables by country of birth the Casen figures here reproduce one by one.
Census and Casen are not mixed
The Casen expands to projections based on the 2017 census (some 20 million people) and the 2024 census counted 18.48 million. So a Casen share is never multiplied by a census count, and their totals of the foreign-born differ.
What is not here
Services, foreign investment and remittances sent from Chile: none of the four sources records them. Nor foreigners living in Chile by nationality rather than birthplace, except in the Casen row «holding Chilean nationality».

How each figure is checked →