Región de Antofagasta

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.

Dependency ratio16th of 16 · Chile 46.541.6

Women's schooling as share of men's16th of 16 · Chile 99.8%98.4%

Literacy rate1st of 16 · Chile 97.8%99.0%

Disability prevalence16th of 16 · Chile 10.6%7.8%

Difficulty walking16th of 16 · Chile 4.92%3.17%

Difficulty hearing16th of 16 · Chile 2.16%1.59%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 10,588 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

57.9%

12th of 16

Came from another commune of the same region

7.5%

14th of 16

Came from another region

17.3%

13th of 16

Net internal migration

-43,855

-6.1 per 100 residents

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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Antofagasta is left unshaded on both maps: it is the place the flows are measured against, not one of them. Darker is a larger flow, and the two maps are scaled separately, because arrivals and departures are different distributions and putting them on one scale would hide the smaller of the two.

Population by sub-territory

Province → Commune

hover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

Every tile is a census count and the areas add up exactly: this is the same sum that produces Antofagasta's own population figure, drawn instead of stated. One block per province, one tile per commune — click a tile to open its profile, or a block's band to lay it out alone.

Employment survey

ENE · INE · 2010–2026

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII

The ten branches that employ most of Antofagasta

Ranked by headcount in the latest year; the line is each branch's own twenty-year shape, on its own scale.

BranchWorkersShare of total2005–2024Change

01Administrative servicesAdvanced services35,41515.4%+310%02ConstructionIndustry and construction35,21615.3%+18%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction26,71711.6%+130%04TransportTrade and logistics19,9678.7%+163%05EducationState and social services19,3488.4%+57%06Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics17,7897.7%−6%07Professional servicesAdvanced services17,0957.4%+423%08Public administrationState and social services13,1645.7%+184%09Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics11,2494.9%+102%10MiningNatural resources9,8464.3%+44%

Dependent workers, projected

Prophet, fitted on the twenty observed years. A projection is not a figure of PuroChile.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.4% a year observed · 1.3% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

UF is indexed to inflation, so this is a projection in real terms.

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.5% a year observed · -0.5% projected

What Antofagasta is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Antofagasta employs more people in 131 of them than Chile does, proportionally. That comparison is Balassa's revealed comparative advantage: this place's share of an activity, over the country's share of it. Above one, the activity is over-represented here.

131

activities it is specialised in

230,494

formal workers

2/16

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Antofagasta is already specialised in it; hollow, it is not. Size is how many people work in it here.

Across: how much of what tends to sit beside that activity this place already does. Up: how few and how diversified the places that do it are. Two activities are counted as close when the places good at one tend also to be good at the other — that co-occurrence is the whole of it.

The corners are not labelled on purpose. Which one is worth being in depends on what a place wants and can afford, and neither is in the tax register. The dashed lines are this place's own medians; the axes are the same on every commune's page, so two of them can be laid side by side. The named ones are those whose name fits without covering another dot; the rest are a hover away.

Most over-represented in Antofagasta

Ranked by how many times the national share this place reaches. The division each activity belongs to is a page of its own.

Activity	Division	Workers here	Times the national share
Transporte de carga por ferrocarril	Transporte por ferrocarril	1,191	16.7×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yeso	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	1,393	16.2×
Extracción de otros minerales metalíferos no ferrosos n.c.p. (excepto zinc, plomo y manganeso)	Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre	2,061	14.5×
Generación de energía eléctrica en centrales termoeléctricas	Generación, transmisión y distribución de energía eléctrica	1,172	14.4×
Reparación de otros tipos de equipo	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	222	11.8×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcción	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	4,721	10.6×
Reparación de otros efectos personales y enseres domésticos	Reparación de efectos personales y enseres domésticos	630	9.3×
Fabricación de maquinaria para la explotación de minas y canteras y para obras de construcción	Fabricación de maquinaria de uso especial	1,807	8.8×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrio	Fabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio	97	8.1×
Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	1,256	7.5×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotores	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	419	7.2×
Servicios prestados por concesionarios de carreteras	Actividades de apoyo al transporte	255	7.0×

The register files a firm at its tax address, so an activity can be over-represented here because the work happens here 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: the communes where large firms keep their registered office carry activities that are physically elsewhere in Chile.

Revealed comparative advantage (Balassa, 1965) and the space of activities (Hidalgo, Klinger, Barabási and Hausmann, 2007), computed on formal employment because that is what a Chilean commune has. Built from the 500-worker activities and the communes above 1,000 formal workers; the floors are on /datos with everything else.

The land and who works it

Agricultural census · INE · 2020/2021

5,688,404

hectares in holdings

6.4%

of them under a named use

90.7%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,928

holdings with land here

Pasturehover a tile for its count; click a group to open itFive families of land use, grouped by PuroChile from the fourteen categories the census publishes. The fifteenth tile is not a category: it is the censused surface less the fourteen.

The agricultural census measured 5,688,404 hectares of holdings in Antofagasta in the 2020/2021 agricultural year, and this is how it divided them.

Fourteen of the fifteen tiles are categories the census publishes. The fifteenth is not: it is the censused surface less the other fourteen, and what it holds is scrub, barren ground, roads and buildings. Across Chile it is half of everything, because most of the censused surface is Patagonian scrub and northern desert inside very large holdings.

Irrigation is asked of eleven of the uses and not of forest, native woodland, natural pasture or untilled ground — so the 90.7% above is a share of the 1,085 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,928 holdings with land here, 1,206 are self-consumption plots — under two hectares and with nothing sold in the year. These counts are the census's own for this territory and they are not added to anything: a holding with land in two comunas is counted in both.

VIII Censo Nacional Agropecuario y Forestal 2021, INE

Foreign trade

Aduanas · January–July 2026

What export declarations name as produced in Antofagasta, month by month since January 2025, and what the customs offices seated in the region clear. They are different things: an import declares not where it is used, only where it is cleared.

US$ 33,452 M

exported, January–July 2026 · +44% vs January–July 2025

42%

of everything Chile exported

US$ 6,348 M

cleared in Tocopilla and Antofagasta · +12% vs January–July 2025

12%

of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

Exports from AntofagastaImports cleared in its officesshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Antofagasta exports

Other sectionsMiscellaneous manufactureshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

ChinaUS$ 13,689 million41%
United StatesUS$ 6,662 million20%
JapanUS$ 3,041 million9.1%
South KoreaUS$ 2,634 million7.9%
IndiaUS$ 1,750 million5.2%
BrazilUS$ 884 million2.6%
FranceUS$ 591 million1.8%
SpainUS$ 534 million1.6%
CanadaUS$ 493 million1.5%
SwitzerlandUS$ 424 million1.3%
NetherlandsUS$ 370 million1.1%
BulgariaUS$ 358 million1.1%
OthersUS$ 2,021 million6.0%

Where what is cleared here comes from

United StatesUS$ 3,127 million49%
ChinaUS$ 1,283 million20%
PeruUS$ 301 million4.7%
JapanUS$ 174 million2.7%
ColombiaUS$ 155 million2.4%
SpainUS$ 139 million2.2%
GermanyUS$ 139 million2.2%
South KoreaUS$ 112 million1.8%
BrazilUS$ 98.6 million1.6%
IndiaUS$ 96.5 million1.5%
OthersUS$ 722 million11%

Through which office

Customs office	Region of its seat	Exports	%	Imports	%
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 31,224 million	93%	US$ 6,348 million	100%
Coquimbo	Coquimbo	US$ 634 million	1.9%	—	—
Metropolitana	Metropolitana	US$ 430 million	1.3%	—	—
San Antonio	Valparaíso	US$ 400 million	1.2%	—	—
Tocopilla	Antofagasta	US$ 396 million	1.2%	US$ 34 thousand	<0.1%
Iquique	Tarapacá	US$ 164 million	0.5%	—	—
Valparaíso	Valparaíso	US$ 139 million	0.4%	—	—
Chañaral	Atacama	US$ 36.7 million	0.1%	—	—
Arica	Arica y Parinacota	US$ 26.4 million	0.1%	—	—
Los Andes	Valparaíso	US$ 1.0 million	<0.1%	—	—
Talcahuano	Biobío	US$ 213 thousand	<0.1%	—	—

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossing	Comuna	Loaded (exports)	%	Unloaded (imports)	%
Puerto Angamos	Mejillones	US$ 14,998 million	45%	US$ 2,638 million	42%
Caleta Coloso	Antofagasta	US$ 8,441 million	25%	—	—
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 4,252 million	13%	US$ 1,018 million	16%
Mejillones	Mejillones	US$ 1,099 million	3.3%	US$ 1,948 million	31%
Terminal Graneles del Norte	Mejillones	US$ 2,573 million	7.7%	US$ 124 million	2.0%
Terminal Muelle Mecanizado Esperanza	Mejillones	US$ 1,515 million	4.5%	—	—
Tocopilla	Tocopilla	US$ 393 million	1.2%	—	—
Paso Jama	San Pedro de Atacama	US$ 52.5 million	0.2%	US$ 141 million	2.2%
Aeropuerto Cerro Moreno	Antofagasta	US$ 1.8 million	<0.1%	US$ 165 million	2.6%
Terminal Marítimo ENAEX	Mejillones	—	—	US$ 163 million	2.6%
Ollague	Ollagüe	US$ 97.3 million	0.3%	US$ 4.3 million	0.1%
Terminal Portuario Terquim	Mejillones	US$ 6 thousand	<0.1%	US$ 56.2 million	0.9%
Terminal Marítimo Oxiquim	Mejillones	—	—	US$ 25.7 million	0.4%
San Pedro de Atacama	San Pedro de Atacama	US$ 2.6 million	<0.1%	US$ 61 thousand	<0.1%
Aeródromo El Loa	Calama	US$ 37 thousand	<0.1%	—	—

What was loaded or unloaded at the region's ports, airports and crossings, wherever it came from: a port serves regions other than its own. Shares are of what crosses the region's ports. Every port →

What its offices clear most

Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c…US$ 1,266 million20%
Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangula…US$ 559 million8.8%
Vehicles; for the transport of goodsUS$ 490 million7.7%
Sulphuric acid; oleumUS$ 357 million5.6%
Molybdenum ores and concentratesUS$ 295 million4.6%
Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)US$ 295 million4.6%
Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, exca…US$ 283 million4.5%
Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbonsUS$ 264 million4.2%
New pneumatic tyres, of rubberUS$ 218 million3.4%
Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coalUS$ 186 million2.9%
Ammonia; anhydrous or in aqueous solutionUS$ 163 million2.6%
Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8…US$ 140 million2.2%
Iron or steel; articles, n.e.c. in chapter 73US$ 111 million1.8%
Electric generating sets and rotary convertersUS$ 111 million1.8%
Alloy steel bars, rods, shapes and sections; hollow drill bars and rods, of all…US$ 103 million1.6%
Other headingsUS$ 1,507 million24%

An export is assigned to the region its declaration names as the origin of the goods; an import to the office that clears it, and the office to the region of its seat. The office an export leaves through is not its region of origin: much of what one region produces leaves through another's office. Customs agents do not appear because the open databases leave them out. A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million. All of Chile's foreign trade →

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

AntofagastaChile% of each territory's own population · 635,416 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Census population	635,416	18,480,432	9th of 16
Average age	35.1 yrs	38.1 yrs	15th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	49.3	79.0	15th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	5.0/km²	24.7/km²	13th of 16

See the other 13 indicators

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Households	213,747	6,596,527	9th of 16
Dwellings	231,829	7,642,716	10th of 16
People per household	2.97	2.80	3rd of 16
Women	50.6%	51.5%	12th of 16
Men per 100 women	97.7	94.3	5th of 16
Under 15	19.7%	17.7%	3rd of 16
65 and over	9.7%	14.0%	15th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	41.6	46.5	16th of 16
One-person households	21.0%	21.8%	14th of 16
Households with children	38.4%	33.2%	2nd of 16
Indigenous peoples	14.4%	11.4%	9th of 16
Female-headed households	46.6%	49.9%	16th of 16
Land area	126,131 km²	748,041 km²	2nd of 16

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born share	19.5%	8.7%	2nd of 16
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.	57.9%	50.5%	12th of 16
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.	7.5%	23.9%	14th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	17.3%	17.2%	13th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	124,006	1,608,650	2nd of 16
Average age, foreign-born	31.9 yrs	33.5 yrs	14th of 16
Women among foreign-born	53.6%	51.7%	2nd of 16
Foreign-born of working age	83.7%	83.1%	2nd of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	34.9%	34.4%	11th of 16
Foreign-born share of working-age population · Foreign-born people aged 15 to 64, over everyone aged 15 to 64 in the comuna.	23.1%	10.6%	2nd of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.7 yrs	12.9 yrs	14th of 16
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.	-43,855	0	11th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-6.1	0.0	10th of 16

Education

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How far schooling went

HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Average years of schooling	10.5 yrs	10.4 yrs	4th of 16
Reached higher education	29.8%	31.1%	6th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17	97.8%	98.6%	16th of 16
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.	59.5%	55.6%	5th of 16

See the other 17 indicators

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
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.	98.4%	99.8%	16th of 16
Literacy rate	99.0%	97.8%	1st of 16
Reached secondary education	41.0%	36.7%	2nd of 16
Primary education only	21.0%	24.1%	15th of 16
Never attended school	3.20%	3.01%	7th of 16
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.	12.6 yrs	12.1 yrs	2nd of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.4 yrs	12.1 yrs	3rd of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	0.99%	2.18%	16th of 16
Households lacking schooling	13.0%	15.1%	12th of 16
Secondary school leavers · Secondary education for children and young people, by the comuna of the school where they took it. Adults are counted apart.	8,407	217,565	9th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	41.3%	33.9%	3rd of 16
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.	0.2%	3.1%	15th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	58.9%	67.2%	15th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	22.4%	19.7%	2nd of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	18.7%	13.1%	5th of 16
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.	19.9%	13.0%	10th of 16
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.	49.8%	49.7%	8th of 16

The class of 2024

Mineduc (SIES), by the comuna they went to school in

Approximation: 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.

8,407left secondary school in 2024

5,004enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

59.5%continued immediately

59%of those, to a university

20%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

AntofagastaChile

Each bar is that programme's share of everyone who continued, here and in the country — 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

AntofagastaChile

The ten broad fields of ISCED-F 2013, as SIES classifies each programme, as a share of everyone who continued, here and in the country.

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

left secondary schoolenrolled the following year

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. What the approximation above does not settle is catchment: this is the cohort Antofagasta's schools taught, and where schools draw pupils from next door that is not the same set of children as the ones the territory raised.

Health

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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 Antofagasta 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

FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Disability prevalence	7.8%	10.6%	16th of 16
Public health insurance	78.4%	82.6%	15th of 16
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.	87.8	82.5	4th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	123	100	1st of 15

See the other 21 indicators

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	49,876	1,950,388	10th of 16
Average age, people with a disability	51.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	15th of 16
Disability among 65+	35.2%	43.0%	15th of 16
Difficulty walking	3.17%	4.92%	16th of 16
Difficulty seeing	3.55%	4.58%	15th of 16
Difficulty hearing	1.59%	2.16%	16th of 16
Difficulty concentrating	1.92%	2.70%	16th of 16
Private health insurance	16.2%	13.2%	2nd of 16
No health coverage	3.27%	1.98%	2nd of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	92.3%	92.1%	8th of 16
Households lacking health access	4.8%	6.0%	13th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	55,769	1,523,716	8th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	1,135	36,698	10th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.04%	2.41%	13th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.5 days	6.1 days	12th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	17.9	19.9	11th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	113	100	3rd of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	2,993	89,723	9th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	5.4%	5.9%	11th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	47.1	48.6	8th of 16
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.	114	100	4th of 16

What people are hospitalised for

hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSeven families of cause, grouped by PuroChile from the 22 ICD-10 chapters. The chapter is still the tile; the family is nothing but the sum of its chapters.

By tumour site

Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasMamaTiroides y endocrinasGenitales femeninoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.	16.4%	17.3%	13th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	35.1 UF	32.0 UF	2nd of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	77.2%	78.9%	15th of 16
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.	69.7	85.6	16th of 16

See the other 16 indicators

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.7%	54.4%	5th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	8.0%	8.6%	12th of 16
Self-employed	34.7%	33.8%	11th of 16
Extreme poverty	7.1%	6.9%	10th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	17.3%	17.7%	6th of 16
Unemployment rate	7.8%	8.8%	13th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 806,072	CLP 783,124	4th of 16
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.	0.444	0.488	11th of 16
Registered firms	44,288	1,582,390	9th of 16
Annual sales	594,510,665 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	6th of 16
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.	230,608	9,699,164	8th of 16
Sales per firm	13,424 UF	21,706 UF	2nd of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.4	3.9	2nd of 16
Women among employees	32.8%	40.6%	16th of 16
Independent contractors	76,944	3,958,269	9th of 16
Contractors as share of workers	25.0%	29.0%	12th of 16

Employment by industry

hover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itSix activity families, grouped by PuroChile from CAENES.

Employment by occupation

Elementary occupationsArmed forceshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itCIUO-08 (ISCO) skill levels.

Housing and services

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House or flat

HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	7.6%	5.7%	3rd of 16
Internet access	96.5%	93.2%	1st of 16
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.	1.5	2.3	14th of 16
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.	1.1	1.6	15th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	202,065	6,408,172	9th of 16
Critically overcrowded	0.94%	0.57%	2nd of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.66%	1.13%	3rd of 16
Public water network	95.9%	92.3%	2nd of 16
Electricity access	99.5%	99.6%	7th of 16
Detached houses	78.3%	78.7%	12th of 16
Apartments	19.2%	19.9%	5th of 16
Precarious wall materials	0.53%	0.23%	4th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings	8.2%	11.9%	15th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit	27,028	491,904	4th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households	12.6%	7.5%	3rd of 16
Renting households	34.6%	26.2%	2nd of 16
Owner-occupiers	48.6%	61.1%	15th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.7%	24.4%	14th of 16
Commute by public transport	40.8%	42.1%	3rd of 16
Walks to work	10.7%	10.2%	11th of 16
Households with a computer	57.7%	54.9%	3rd of 16
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.	0.9	1.1	14th of 16
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.	98.5%	97.0%	2nd of 16
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.	99.4%	99.9%	12th of 16
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.	99.7%	100.0%	13th of 16
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.	97.3%	89.4%	2nd of 16
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.	98.9%	98.1%	3rd of 16
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.	99.4%	99.7%	10th of 16
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.	5.5	5.9	12th of 16
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.	94.1%	80.3%	3rd of 16
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.	95.1%	90.0%	5th of 16
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.	95.3%	96.2%	7th of 16
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.	0.7	0.6	11th of 16
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.	98.8%	99.0%	5th of 16
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.	99.4%	99.9%	13th of 16
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.	99.7%	100.0%	15th of 16
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.	98.3%	91.6%	2nd of 16
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.	99.1%	98.5%	3rd of 16
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.	99.3%	99.8%	11th of 16

How people commute

Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Otherhover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour tenure types, grouped by PuroChile.

Home heating fuel

No heatingElectricityOther sourcehover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour fuel types, grouped by PuroChile.

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result

82.3%

of the registered voted in the first round

81.5%

voted in the runoff

500,062

registered voters on the roll

10.5%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman43.2%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist56.8%58.3%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez35.1%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman23.3%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.0%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet7.5%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile38.0%30.6%

KCambio por Chile16.1%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido12.2%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente19.6%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.4%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.2%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios4.3%0.6%

HPopular1.1%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

AntofagastaChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

3

Province	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Antofagasta	428,749	19.2%	10.6 yrs	16.2%
El Loa	176,433	21.6%	10.3 yrs	17.4%
Tocopilla	30,234	11.8%	9.7 yrs	18.1%
Antofagasta	635,416	19.5%	10.5 yrs	16.4%

Where it stands out

Average monthly pay

Where the people here are from

Population by sub-territory

Employment survey

Formal employment, 2005–2024

The ten branches that employ most of Antofagasta

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Antofagasta is specialised in

Most over-represented in Antofagasta

The land and who works it

Foreign trade

Month by month

What Antofagasta exports

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

Where what is cleared here comes from

Through which office

Its ports and crossings

What its offices clear most

Population and territory

Population pyramid

Migration

When the migrant population arrived

Education

How far schooling went

The class of 2024

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

By field of study

Nineteen cohorts, 2006–2024

Health

Which health system

What people are hospitalised for

By tumour site

Economy and poverty

Employment by industry

Employment by occupation

Housing and services

House or flat

How people commute

Housing tenure

Home heating fuel

How it voted in 2025

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

Territories within