Región de Arica y Parinacota

Where it stands out

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

Indigenous peoples1st of 16 · Chile 11.4%35.9%

Foreign-born of working age16th of 16 · Chile 83.1%80.1%

Average schooling, foreign-born16th of 16 · Chile 12.9 yrs11.2 yrs

Irrecoverable dwellings1st of 16 · Chile 1.13%5.40%

Self-employed1st of 16 · Chile 33.8%40.3%

Housing deficit as share of households1st of 16 · Chile 7.5%15.0%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 8,506 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

61.6%

5th of 16

Came from another commune of the same region

1.2%

16th of 16

Came from another region

22.7%

4th of 16

Net internal migration

-2,485

-1.0 per 100 residents

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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Arica y Parinacota 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 Arica y Parinacota'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 Arica y Parinacota

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

01EducationState and social services9,85418.0%+281%02Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics8,89216.2%+0%03ConstructionIndustry and construction5,47210.0%−10%04HealthState and social services4,5808.4%+142%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services4,2517.8%+481%06Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics3,9927.3%+86%07TransportTrade and logistics3,4566.3%+36%08ManufacturingIndustry and construction3,4376.3%−32%09Public administrationState and social services3,1295.7%−18%10Agriculture and fishingNatural resources2,1994.0%−22%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval1.5% a year observed · 2.0% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval6.7% a year observed · 2.4% projected

What Arica y Parinacota is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Arica y Parinacota employs more people in 135 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.

135

activities it is specialised in

54,772

formal workers

6/16

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Each dot is one activity. Filled, Arica y Parinacota 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 Arica y Parinacota

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
Fabricación de otros productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	1,230	51.9×
Pesca marítima artesanal	Pesca	429	34.6×
Cultivo de porotos	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	74	20.0×
Cultivo de hortalizas y melones	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	937	19.9×
Actividades de hospitales y clínicas públicas	Actividades de hospitales públicos y privados	2,586	12.9×
Venta al por mayor de bebidas alcohólicas y no alcohólicas	Venta al por mayor de alimentos, bebidas y tabaco	2,634	12.7×
Enseñanza primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional pública	Enseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional	4,173	10.5×
Actividades de clubes de futbol amateur y profesional	Actividades deportivas	86	7.0×
Actividades de sindicatos	Actividades de sindicatos	28	7.0×
Fabricación de cemento, cal y yeso	Fabricación de productos minerales no metálicos n.c.p.	128	6.3×
Cultivo de plantas con las que se preparan bebidas (incluye el cultivo de café, té y mate)	Cultivo de plantas perennes	27	6.0×
Actividades de servicios vinculadas al transporte acuático	Actividades de apoyo al transporte	524	5.4×

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

421,712

hectares in holdings

35.2%

of them under a named use

99.8%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,448

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 421,712 hectares of holdings in Arica y Parinacota 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 99.8% above is a share of the 6,468 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,448 holdings with land here, 181 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 Arica y Parinacota, 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$ 199 M

exported, January–July 2026 · +12% vs January–July 2025

0.3%

of everything Chile exported

US$ 599 M

cleared in Arica · +3.5% vs January–July 2025

1.2%

of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

Exports from Arica y ParinacotaImports cleared in its officesshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Arica y Parinacota exports

Special treatmentsPrecision instrumentshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

ChinaUS$ 61.2 million31%
United StatesUS$ 28.6 million14%
GermanyUS$ 20.2 million10%
BrazilUS$ 17.6 million8.8%
PeruUS$ 14.9 million7.5%
SpainUS$ 10.2 million5.1%
BelgiumUS$ 9.6 million4.8%
ArgentinaUS$ 6.2 million3.1%
JapanUS$ 4.2 million2.1%
TürkiyeUS$ 3.3 million1.7%
ColombiaUS$ 3.0 million1.5%
South KoreaUS$ 2.6 million1.3%
OthersUS$ 17.1 million8.6%

Where what is cleared here comes from

PeruUS$ 523 million87%
BoliviaUS$ 19.5 million3.3%
United StatesUS$ 9.9 million1.7%
BrazilUS$ 9.4 million1.6%
ChinaUS$ 8.0 million1.3%
ArgentinaUS$ 6.3 million1.1%
ColombiaUS$ 6.2 million1.0%
Arica free zone, industrial areaUS$ 3.5 million0.6%
South KoreaUS$ 2.4 million0.4%
SpainUS$ 1.7 million0.3%
OthersUS$ 8.6 million1.4%

Through which office

Customs office	Region of its seat	Exports	%	Imports	%
Arica	Arica y Parinacota	US$ 189 million	95%	US$ 599 million	100%
Talcahuano	Biobío	US$ 4.0 million	2.0%	—	—
Metropolitana	Metropolitana	US$ 2.2 million	1.1%	—	—
Los Andes	Valparaíso	US$ 1.9 million	1.0%	—	—
San Antonio	Valparaíso	US$ 735 thousand	0.4%	—	—
Valparaíso	Valparaíso	US$ 451 thousand	0.2%	—	—
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 416 thousand	0.2%	—	—
Iquique	Tarapacá	US$ 262 thousand	0.1%	—	—

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossing	Comuna	Loaded (exports)	%	Unloaded (imports)	%
Chacalluta	Arica	US$ 196 million	45%	US$ 540 million	90%
Arica	Arica	US$ 184 million	42%	US$ 37.3 million	6.2%
Chungará	Putre	US$ 51.1 million	12%	US$ 19.5 million	3.3%
Aeropuerto Chacalluta	Arica	US$ 4.1 million	0.9%	US$ 2.8 million	0.5%
Arica-Tacna	Arica	—	—	US$ 147 thousand	<0.1%
Visviri	General Lagos	US$ 515	<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

Molybdenum ores and concentratesUS$ 353 million59%
Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens; fresh or dr…US$ 61.6 million10%
Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixi…US$ 16.5 million2.8%
Oil-cake and other solid residues; whether or not ground or in the form of pell…US$ 11.0 million1.8%
Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate ce…US$ 9.4 million1.6%
Vehicles; public transport passenger typeUS$ 8.3 million1.4%
Prepared explosives, other than propellent powdersUS$ 7.1 million1.2%
Safety fuses; detonating cords; percussion or detonating caps; igniters; electr…US$ 7.0 million1.2%
Citrus fruit; fresh or driedUS$ 6.9 million1.2%
Pumps; for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring device, liquid elevato…US$ 6.2 million1.0%
Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracti…US$ 5.6 million0.9%
Maize (corn)US$ 5.5 million0.9%
Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate…US$ 4.8 million0.8%
Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxi…US$ 3.7 million0.6%
Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8…US$ 3.6 million0.6%
Other headingsUS$ 88.5 million15%

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

Arica y ParinacotaChile% of each territory's own population · 244,569 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Census population	244,569	18,480,432	14th of 16
Average age	36.5 yrs	38.1 yrs	14th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	65.0	79.0	13th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	14.5/km²	24.7/km²	11th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Households	80,620	6,596,527	14th of 16
Dwellings	88,501	7,642,716	14th of 16
People per household	3.03	2.80	2nd of 16
Women	50.8%	51.5%	11th of 16
Men per 100 women	96.9	94.3	6th of 16
Under 15	19.6%	17.7%	4th of 16
65 and over	12.8%	14.0%	12th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	48.0	46.5	8th of 16
One-person households	21.2%	21.8%	12th of 16
Households with children	37.8%	33.2%	3rd of 16
Indigenous peoples	35.9%	11.4%	1st of 16
Female-headed households	50.6%	49.9%	4th of 16
Land area	16,881 km²	748,041 km²	12th 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	14.8%	8.7%	3rd 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.	61.6%	50.5%	5th 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.	1.2%	23.9%	16th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	22.7%	17.2%	4th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	36,188	1,608,650	9th of 16
Average age, foreign-born	33.9 yrs	33.5 yrs	5th of 16
Women among foreign-born	52.9%	51.7%	4th of 16
Foreign-born of working age	80.1%	83.1%	16th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	32.2%	34.4%	12th 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.	17.5%	10.6%	3rd of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.2 yrs	12.9 yrs	16th 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.	-2,485	0	7th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-1.0	0.0	7th 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	10.4 yrs	10.4 yrs	5th of 16
Reached higher education	29.8%	31.1%	5th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17	98.9%	98.6%	9th 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.	63.4%	55.6%	2nd of 16

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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.	100.0%	99.8%	11th of 16
Literacy rate	98.7%	97.8%	4th of 16
Reached secondary education	40.1%	36.7%	4th of 16
Primary education only	21.6%	24.1%	14th of 16
Never attended school	2.95%	3.01%	13th 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.	12.3 yrs	12.1 yrs	5th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.3 yrs	12.1 yrs	5th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.37%	2.18%	13th of 16
Households lacking schooling	11.9%	15.1%	14th 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.	3,047	217,565	14th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	33.5%	33.9%	9th 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.	2.7%	3.1%	10th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	69.6%	67.2%	5th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	7.2%	19.7%	16th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	23.2%	13.1%	3rd 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.	13.7%	13.0%	13th 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.	50.4%	49.7%	7th 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.

3,047left secondary school in 2024

1,932enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

63.4%continued immediately

70%of those, to a university

14%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

Arica y ParinacotaChile

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

Arica y ParinacotaChile

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 Arica y Parinacota'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 Arica y Parinacota 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	9.8%	10.6%	11th of 16
Public health insurance	88.4%	82.6%	8th 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.	81.6	82.5	8th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	98	100	9th of 15

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	23,875	1,950,388	14th of 16
Average age, people with a disability	54.7 yrs	56.4 yrs	12th of 16
Disability among 65+	41.7%	43.0%	12th of 16
Difficulty walking	4.21%	4.92%	12th of 16
Difficulty seeing	4.33%	4.58%	12th of 16
Difficulty hearing	2.10%	2.16%	11th of 16
Difficulty concentrating	2.50%	2.70%	10th of 16
Private health insurance	5.8%	13.2%	12th of 16
No health coverage	1.70%	1.98%	12th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	92.5%	92.1%	7th of 16
Households lacking health access	4.8%	6.0%	15th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	19,949	1,523,716	14th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	435	36,698	14th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.18%	2.41%	11th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.2 days	6.1 days	14th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	17.8	19.9	12th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	102	100	7th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	1,412	89,723	12th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	7.1%	5.9%	1st of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	57.7	48.6	3rd 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.	127	100	1st 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 linfáticoMamaVías urinariasGenitales masculinosGenitales 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.	21.4%	17.3%	5th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	22.7 UF	32.0 UF	12th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	89.8%	78.9%	9th 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.	76.6	85.6	11th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	53.9%	54.4%	8th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	9.9%	8.6%	5th of 16
Self-employed	40.3%	33.8%	1st of 16
Extreme poverty	9.9%	6.9%	4th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	18.7%	17.7%	4th of 16
Unemployment rate	8.6%	8.8%	9th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 623,626	CLP 783,124	13th 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.	0.424	0.488	16th of 16
Registered firms	18,740	1,582,390	14th of 16
Annual sales	95,665,910 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	15th 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.	54,792	9,699,164	15th of 16
Sales per firm	5,105 UF	21,706 UF	11th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.0	3.9	15th of 16
Women among employees	44.1%	40.6%	3rd of 16
Independent contractors	25,420	3,958,269	15th of 16
Contractors as share of workers	31.7%	29.0%	3rd 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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HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Overcrowded dwellings	8.0%	5.7%	2nd of 16
Internet access	94.4%	93.2%	5th 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.	2.7	2.3	10th 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.	1.5	1.6	13th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	75,935	6,408,172	14th of 16
Critically overcrowded	0.90%	0.57%	3rd of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings	5.40%	1.13%	1st of 16
Public water network	91.0%	92.3%	6th of 16
Electricity access	99.0%	99.6%	15th of 16
Detached houses	76.7%	78.7%	14th of 16
Apartments	20.8%	19.9%	3rd of 16
Precarious wall materials	0.61%	0.23%	2nd of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings	10.3%	11.9%	14th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit	12,055	491,904	11th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households	15.0%	7.5%	1st of 16
Renting households	26.1%	26.2%	5th of 16
Owner-occupiers	53.4%	61.1%	14th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.6%	24.4%	15th of 16
Commute by public transport	36.5%	42.1%	7th of 16
Walks to work	11.8%	10.2%	10th of 16
Households with a computer	52.7%	54.9%	6th 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.	1.1	1.1	11th 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.	95.1%	97.0%	9th 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%	13th 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.	99.8%	100.0%	12th 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.	90.4%	89.4%	7th 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.	96.2%	98.1%	10th 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.	98.7%	99.7%	13th 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.	3.2	5.9	13th 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.	89.6%	80.3%	5th 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.	95.8%	90.0%	3rd 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.	98.2%	96.2%	4th 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	10th 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.	96.3%	99.0%	14th 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.	99.9%	99.9%	10th 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.	100.0%	100.0%	11th 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.	94.6%	91.6%	5th 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.	97.8%	98.5%	7th 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.	99.6%	99.8%	10th 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

80.6%

of the registered voted in the first round

80.5%

voted in the runoff

195,604

registered voters on the roll

8.5%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman37.1%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist62.9%58.3%

Arica y ParinacotaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez27.8%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.8%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen18.1%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist21.9%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.7%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%

Arica y ParinacotaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile41.9%30.6%

KCambio por Chile26.1%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido10.4%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente10.7%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas4.2%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.3%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios2.2%0.6%

HPopular1.2%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

Arica y ParinacotaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile37.5%

KCambio por Chile7.0%

JChile Grande y Unido41.5%

IPartido de la Gente7.7%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1.8%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.0%

HPopular1.5%

Arica y Parinacotashare of the valid vote

Territories within

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Province	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Arica	242,514	14.7%	10.4 yrs	22.4%
Parinacota	2,055	24.1%	8.3 yrs	37.7%
Arica y Parinacota	244,569	14.8%	10.4 yrs	21.4%

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 Arica y Parinacota

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Arica y Parinacota is specialised in

Most over-represented in Arica y Parinacota

The land and who works it

Foreign trade

Month by month

What Arica y Parinacota 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

Senate · 16 November

Territories within