Región de Atacama — PuroChile

Where it stands out

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

Average age, foreign-born16th of 16 · Chile 33.5 yrs31.0 yrs

Unoccupied private dwellings1st of 16 · Chile 11.9%23.9%

Sought care when ill16th of 16 · Chile 92.1%87.3%

Continues to higher education1st of 16 · Chile 55.6%63.9%

Women15th of 16 · Chile 51.5%50.4%

Men per 100 women2nd of 16 · Chile 94.398.2

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 9,277 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

60.9%

7th of 16

Came from another commune of the same region

10.9%

12th of 16

Came from another region

20.5%

8th of 16

Net internal migration

-28,581

-8.9 per 100 residents

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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Atacama 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 Atacama'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 Atacama

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

01ConstructionIndustry and construction13,15314.3%−4%02EducationState and social services12,33313.4%+557%03ManufacturingIndustry and construction11,19312.1%+92%04Administrative servicesAdvanced services8,7969.5%+135%05MiningNatural resources8,1418.8%+30%06Public administrationState and social services7,2647.9%+41%07Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics6,6867.3%−22%08TransportTrade and logistics5,1575.6%+121%09Agriculture and fishingNatural resources4,9985.4%−77%10Professional servicesAdvanced services4,7275.1%+97%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval0.8% a year observed · 0.9% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.7% a year observed · -3.0% projected

What Atacama is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Atacama employs more people in 105 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.

105

activities it is specialised in

92,155

formal workers

7/16

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Atacama

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 productos primarios de metales preciosos y de otros metales no ferrosos n.c.p.	Fabricación de productos primarios de metales preciosos y otros metales no ferrosos	1,432	47.0×
Extracción de oro y plata	Extracción de minerales metalíferos no ferrosos, excepto cobre	978	42.5×
Extracción de minerales de hierro	Extracción de minerales de hierro	638	23.5×
Fabricación de equipo eléctrico de iluminación	Fabricación de equipo eléctrico de iluminación	103	14.7×
Enseñanza preescolar pública	Enseñanza preescolar, primaria, secundaria científico humanista y técnico profesional	5,533	14.4×
Cultivo de porotos	Cultivo de plantas no perennes	87	14.0×
Cultivo de uva destinada a la producción de pisco y aguardiente	Cultivo de plantas perennes	47	9.7×
Acabado de productos textiles	Hilatura, tejedura y acabado de productos textiles	81	8.8×
Reparación de maquinaria metalúrgica, para la minería, extracción de petróleo y para la construcción	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	1,545	8.7×
Fabricación de productos metálicos para uso estructural	Fabricación de productos metálicos para uso estructural, tanques, depósitos, recipientes de metal	4,630	7.8×
Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	502	7.5×
Extracción y procesamiento de cobre	Extracción y procesamiento de cobre	3,235	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

4,463,454

hectares in holdings

5.7%

of them under a named use

99.7%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,938

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 4,463,454 hectares of holdings in Atacama 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 99.7% above is a share of the 11,193 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,938 holdings with land here, 586 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 Atacama, 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$ 7,385 M

exported, January–July 2026 · +60% vs January–July 2025

9.3%

of everything Chile exported

US$ 377 M

cleared in Chañaral · +37% vs January–July 2025

0.7%

of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

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

What Atacama exports

Transport equipmentPlastics and rubberSpecial treatmentsFats and oilsHides and leatherhover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

ChinaUS$ 2,376 million32%
JapanUS$ 1,312 million18%
SwitzerlandUS$ 1,087 million15%
IndiaUS$ 1,008 million14%
United StatesUS$ 474 million6.4%
CanadaUS$ 276 million3.7%
FinlandUS$ 184 million2.5%
BrazilUS$ 146 million2.0%
SpainUS$ 138 million1.9%
AustraliaUS$ 67.6 million0.9%
TaiwanUS$ 41.2 million0.6%
ItalyUS$ 36.8 million0.5%
OthersUS$ 238 million3.2%

Where what is cleared here comes from

United StatesUS$ 252 million67%
ColombiaUS$ 79.7 million21%
CanadaUS$ 14.8 million3.9%
South KoreaUS$ 12.7 million3.4%
PeruUS$ 10.2 million2.7%
BulgariaUS$ 3.6 million1.0%
BelgiumUS$ 2.6 million0.7%
JapanUS$ 1.7 million0.5%
SpainUS$ 104 thousand<0.1%
ChinaUS$ 3 thousand<0.1%
OthersUS$ 3 thousand<0.1%

Through which office

Customs office	Region of its seat	Exports	%	Imports	%
Chañaral	Atacama	US$ 3,384 million	46%	US$ 377 million	100%
Metropolitana	Metropolitana	US$ 2,372 million	32%	—	—
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 1,078 million	15%	—	—
San Antonio	Valparaíso	US$ 384 million	5.2%	—	—
Coquimbo	Coquimbo	US$ 83.8 million	1.1%	—	—
Valparaíso	Valparaíso	US$ 71.7 million	1.0%	—	—
Talcahuano	Biobío	US$ 4.7 million	0.1%	—	—
Los Andes	Valparaíso	US$ 3.6 million	<0.1%	—	—
Arica	Arica y Parinacota	US$ 1.4 million	<0.1%	—	—
Iquique	Tarapacá	US$ 1.0 million	<0.1%	—	—
Araucanía	Araucanía	US$ 76 thousand	<0.1%	—	—

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossing	Comuna	Loaded (exports)	%	Unloaded (imports)	%
Caldera	Caldera	US$ 2,552 million	74%	US$ 223 million	58%
Chañaral / Barquito	Chañaral	US$ 516 million	15%	US$ 58.5 million	15%
Huasco / Guacolda	Huasco	US$ 348 million	10%	US$ 100 million	26%
San Francisco	Copiapó	US$ 14.0 million	0.4%	US$ 55 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$ 258 million69%
Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coalUS$ 100 million27%
Sulphuric acid; oleumUS$ 18.2 million4.8%
Twine, cordage, ropes and cables, whether or not plaited or braided; whether or…US$ 6 thousand<0.1%

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

AtacamaChile% of each territory's own population · 299,180 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Census population	299,180	18,480,432	13th of 16
Average age	36.8 yrs	38.1 yrs	13th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	63.7	79.0	14th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	4.0/km²	24.7/km²	14th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Households	103,057	6,596,527	13th of 16
Dwellings	139,531	7,642,716	13th of 16
People per household	2.90	2.80	4th of 16
Women	50.4%	51.5%	15th of 16
Men per 100 women	98.2	94.3	2nd of 16
Under 15	19.8%	17.7%	2nd of 16
65 and over	12.6%	14.0%	14th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	47.8	46.5	9th of 16
One-person households	21.4%	21.8%	10th of 16
Households with children	37.2%	33.2%	4th of 16
Indigenous peoples	25.6%	11.4%	5th of 16
Female-headed households	48.8%	49.9%	11th of 16
Land area	75,705 km²	748,041 km²	4th 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	8.4%	8.7%	5th 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.	60.9%	50.5%	7th 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.	10.9%	23.9%	12th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	20.5%	17.2%	8th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	25,167	1,608,650	11th of 16
Average age, foreign-born	31.0 yrs	33.5 yrs	16th of 16
Women among foreign-born	52.5%	51.7%	5th of 16
Foreign-born of working age	81.3%	83.1%	10th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	41.8%	34.4%	4th 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.	10.1%	10.6%	5th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.8 yrs	12.9 yrs	13th 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.	-28,581	0	10th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-8.9	0.0	12th 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	9.9 yrs	10.4 yrs	9th of 16
Reached higher education	25.5%	31.1%	11th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17	98.1%	98.6%	15th 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.	63.9%	55.6%	1st 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.	100.3%	99.8%	9th of 16
Literacy rate	98.2%	97.8%	7th of 16
Reached secondary education	40.9%	36.7%	3rd of 16
Primary education only	25.0%	24.1%	10th of 16
Never attended school	3.21%	3.01%	6th 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.	11.8 yrs	12.1 yrs	9th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.8 yrs	12.1 yrs	9th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.83%	2.18%	10th of 16
Households lacking schooling	15.9%	15.1%	9th 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.	4,119	217,565	13th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	49.9%	33.9%	2nd 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.	1.1%	3.1%	13th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	66.3%	67.2%	10th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	15.0%	19.7%	11th 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%	6th 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.	33.8%	13.0%	3rd 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.	49.5%	49.7%	12th 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.

4,119left secondary school in 2024

2,633enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

63.9%continued immediately

66%of those, to a university

34%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

AtacamaChile

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

AtacamaChile

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 Atacama'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 Atacama 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%	12th of 16
Public health insurance	87.3%	82.6%	11th 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.	71.3	82.5	13th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	106	100	4th of 15

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	29,182	1,950,388	13th of 16
Average age, people with a disability	54.5 yrs	56.4 yrs	14th of 16
Disability among 65+	40.3%	43.0%	14th of 16
Difficulty walking	4.21%	4.92%	13th of 16
Difficulty seeing	4.56%	4.58%	9th of 16
Difficulty hearing	1.95%	2.16%	12th of 16
Difficulty concentrating	2.17%	2.70%	14th of 16
Private health insurance	9.0%	13.2%	4th of 16
No health coverage	2.19%	1.98%	9th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	87.3%	92.1%	16th of 16
Households lacking health access	4.8%	6.0%	14th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	21,318	1,523,716	13th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	580	36,698	12th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.72%	2.41%	5th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	6.5 days	6.1 days	3rd of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	19.4	19.9	7th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	88	100	13th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	1,126	89,723	13th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	5.3%	5.9%	12th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	37.6	48.6	12th 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.	81	100	12th 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 linfáticoMamaGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinasVías urinariashover 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.	18.6%	17.3%	9th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	31.2 UF	32.0 UF	3rd of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	80.1%	78.9%	14th 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.	72.7	85.6	13th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	54.0%	54.4%	7th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	9.0%	8.6%	8th of 16
Self-employed	36.6%	33.8%	3rd of 16
Extreme poverty	7.4%	6.9%	8th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	20.2%	17.7%	2nd of 16
Unemployment rate	9.0%	8.8%	7th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 692,230	CLP 783,124	5th 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.	0.427	0.488	15th of 16
Registered firms	21,765	1,582,390	13th of 16
Annual sales	179,091,754 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	11th 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.	92,179	9,699,164	13th of 16
Sales per firm	8,228 UF	21,706 UF	7th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.7	3.9	9th of 16
Women among employees	34.0%	40.6%	15th of 16
Independent contractors	31,297	3,958,269	13th of 16
Contractors as share of workers	25.3%	29.0%	11th 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	5.7%	5.7%	5th of 16
Internet access	93.3%	93.2%	7th 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.	3.1	2.3	8th 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.	2.6	1.6	8th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	99,861	6,408,172	13th of 16
Critically overcrowded	0.45%	0.57%	6th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings	2.55%	1.13%	4th of 16
Public water network	87.1%	92.3%	12th of 16
Electricity access	99.2%	99.6%	14th of 16
Detached houses	90.0%	78.7%	9th of 16
Apartments	8.8%	19.9%	8th of 16
Precarious wall materials	0.60%	0.23%	3rd of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings	23.9%	11.9%	1st of 16
Quantitative housing deficit	8,613	491,904	13th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households	8.4%	7.5%	5th of 16
Renting households	19.4%	26.2%	13th of 16
Owner-occupiers	64.9%	61.1%	8th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	2.3%	24.4%	13th of 16
Commute by public transport	32.7%	42.1%	9th of 16
Walks to work	13.5%	10.2%	5th of 16
Households with a computer	49.3%	54.9%	10th 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.	1.5	1.1	6th 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.	94.2%	97.0%	11th 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.	97.9%	99.9%	15th 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.	99.6%	100.0%	15th 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.	91.7%	89.4%	6th 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.	95.0%	98.1%	12th 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.	97.6%	99.7%	15th 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.	7.6	5.9	8th 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.	80.5%	80.3%	7th 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.	85.8%	90.0%	9th 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.	89.1%	96.2%	13th 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.	1.0	0.6	5th 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.	96.2%	99.0%	15th 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.	99.2%	99.9%	14th 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.	99.8%	100.0%	13th 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.	92.0%	91.6%	7th 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.	95.0%	98.5%	14th 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.	97.7%	99.8%	15th 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

84.9%

of the registered voted in the first round

84.6%

voted in the runoff

248,271

registered voters on the roll

9.5%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.5%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.5%58.3%

AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez32.6%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman26.4%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.2%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.2%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist18.8%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.3%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.0%1.3%

AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile30.9%30.6%

KCambio por Chile16.4%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido14.0%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente14.8%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas18.5%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular5.3%0.2%

Independents outside a pact—0.7%

AtacamaChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile53.0%

KCambio por Chile15.6%

JChile Grande y Unido17.0%

IPartido de la Gente11.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista2.6%

Atacamashare of the valid vote

Congress is compared by list, not by candidate: the candidates change at every district line, and the list — the pact — is the same across the country.

5 deputies, by list

C. Unidad por Chile2
K. Cambio por Chile1
I. Partido de la Gente1
B. Verdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas1

Elected in district 4.

Every name

District 4

Jaime Mulet Martinez Federacion Regionalista Verde Social · list B · 20,747 votes
Juan Santana Castillo Partido Socialista de Chile · list C · 19,595 votes
Cristian Tapia Ramos Independiente Por la Democracia · list C · 18,375 votes
Paula Andrea Olmos Contreras Partido de la Gente · list I · 10,046 votes
Ignacio Urcullu Clement-Lund Partido Republicano de Chile · list K · 8,416 votes

2 senators

Daniella Cicardini Milla Partido Socialista de Chile · list C · 66,300 votes
Yasna Provoste Campillay Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 30,785 votes

Territories within

3

Province	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Copiapó	199,482	10.5%	10.1 yrs	18.5%
Chañaral	23,742	5.0%	9.7 yrs	18.8%
Huasco	75,956	3.9%	9.6 yrs	23.0%
Atacama	299,180	8.4%	9.9 yrs	18.6%

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 Atacama

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Atacama is specialised in

Most over-represented in Atacama

The land and who works it

Foreign trade

Month by month

What Atacama 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