Región del Biobío

Where it stands out

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

Women1st of 16 · Chile 51.5%51.9%

Men per 100 women16th of 16 · Chile 94.392.6

Of those continuing, women16th of 16 · Chile 49.7%48.5%

People within 30 km of any health facility1st of 16 · Chile 100.0%100.0%

People within 30 km of a school in operation1st of 16 · Chile 100.0%100.0%

One-person households15th of 16 · Chile 21.8%20.9%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 22,416 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

59.5%

11th of 16

Came from another commune of the same region

23.3%

2nd of 16

Came from another region

14.3%

15th of 16

Net internal migration

-140,900

-8.4 per 100 residents

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

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 construction74,69613.4%−0%02ManufacturingIndustry and construction65,62311.8%+33%03EducationState and social services62,14711.1%+139%04Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics61,97411.1%+49%05Administrative servicesAdvanced services58,34710.5%+122%06Public administrationState and social services53,0499.5%+156%07Agriculture and fishingNatural resources41,9677.5%−35%08TransportTrade and logistics36,3106.5%+100%09HealthState and social services27,0374.8%+178%10Professional servicesAdvanced services21,3063.8%+119%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.1% a year observed · 2.2% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval4.6% a year observed · 3.1% projected

What Biobío is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Biobío employs more people in 152 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.

152

activities it is specialised in

557,666

formal workers

8/16

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Biobío

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 hojas de madera para enchapado y tableros a base de madera	Fabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables	6,273	11.0×
Pesca marítima industrial, excepto de barcos factoría	Pesca	3,674	10.3×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítima	Pesca	451	8.9×
Reparación de productos elaborados de metal	Reparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo	1,865	8.7×
Actividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechos	Actividades de descontaminación y otros servicios de gestión de desechos	1,440	8.2×
Aserrado y acepilladura de madera	Aserrado y acepilladura de madera	8,823	8.0×
Explotación de viveros forestales	Silvicultura y otras actividades forestales	589	7.4×
Servicios de corta de madera a cambio de una retribución o por contrata	Servicios de apoyo a la silvicultura	1,758	7.0×
Transporte interurbano de pasajeros por ferrocarril	Transporte por ferrocarril	385	6.1×
Elaboración de otros productos de molinería n.c.p.	Elaboración de productos de molinería, almidones y productos derivados del almidón	419	6.0×
Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	Industrias básicas de hierro y acero	2,190	5.4×
Fabricación de recipientes de madera	Fabricación de productos de madera, corcho, paja y materiales trenzables	473	5.3×

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

1,358,582

hectares in holdings

89.4%

of them under a named use

64.9%

of the crop land is irrigated

17,513

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 1,358,582 hectares of holdings in Biobío 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 64.9% above is a share of the 103,477 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 17,513 holdings with land here, 5,065 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 Biobío, 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$ 2,861 M

exported, January–July 2026 · +3.0% vs January–July 2025

3.6%

of everything Chile exported

US$ 5,210 M

cleared in Talcahuano · +18% vs January–July 2025

10%

of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

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

What Biobío exports

Other sectionsHides and leatherReserved for national usehover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

ChinaUS$ 765 million27%
United StatesUS$ 527 million18%
South KoreaUS$ 150 million5.3%
Côte d’IvoireUS$ 109 million3.8%
MexicoUS$ 104 million3.6%
PeruUS$ 95.7 million3.3%
NetherlandsUS$ 94.5 million3.3%
JapanUS$ 77.9 million2.7%
PanamaUS$ 72.4 million2.5%
Burkina FasoUS$ 69.7 million2.4%
NigeriaUS$ 53.6 million1.9%
BrazilUS$ 47.4 million1.7%
OthersUS$ 693 million24%

Where what is cleared here comes from

ArgentinaUS$ 1,525 million29%
BrazilUS$ 994 million19%
ChinaUS$ 860 million17%
United StatesUS$ 630 million12%
EcuadorUS$ 443 million8.5%
PeruUS$ 57.7 million1.1%
SpainUS$ 49.3 million0.9%
GermanyUS$ 46.9 million0.9%
NorwayUS$ 43.8 million0.8%
ItalyUS$ 41.7 million0.8%
OthersUS$ 517 million9.9%

Through which office

Customs office	Region of its seat	Exports	%	Imports	%
Talcahuano	Biobío	US$ 2,657 million	93%	US$ 5,210 million	100%
Valparaíso	Valparaíso	US$ 99.4 million	3.5%	—	—
San Antonio	Valparaíso	US$ 32.2 million	1.1%	—	—
Los Andes	Valparaíso	US$ 31.8 million	1.1%	—	—
Metropolitana	Metropolitana	US$ 21.8 million	0.8%	—	—
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 8.5 million	0.3%	—	—
Araucanía	Araucanía	US$ 5.1 million	0.2%	—	—
Arica	Arica y Parinacota	US$ 2.5 million	0.1%	—	—
Osorno	Los Lagos	US$ 2.1 million	0.1%	—	—
Tocopilla	Antofagasta	US$ 133 thousand	<0.1%	—	—
Puerto Montt	Los Lagos	US$ 1 thousand	<0.1%	—	—
Chañaral	Atacama	US$ 507	<0.1%	—	—

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossing	Comuna	Loaded (exports)	%	Unloaded (imports)	%
San Vicente	Talcahuano	US$ 3,142 million	40%	US$ 775 million	15%
Coronel	Coronel	US$ 2,295 million	30%	US$ 449 million	8.7%
Lirquén	Penco	US$ 2,108 million	27%	US$ 575 million	11%
Talcahuano	Talcahuano	US$ 186 million	2.4%	US$ 1,492 million	29%
Paso Buta Mallin	Alto Biobío	—	—	US$ 1,436 million	28%
Terminal Marítimo Escuadrón	Coronel	US$ 28 thousand	<0.1%	US$ 217 million	4.2%
Puerto Cabo Froward	Coronel	US$ 24.6 million	0.3%	US$ 57.5 million	1.1%
Muelle Huachipato	Talcahuano	US$ 8.5 million	0.1%	US$ 72.9 million	1.4%
Penco	Penco	US$ 672 thousand	<0.1%	US$ 74.9 million	1.5%
Aeropuerto Carriel Sur	Talcahuano	US$ 1.5 million	<0.1%	US$ 2.6 million	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 obtained from bituminous minerals; crudeUS$ 2,787 million54%
Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c…US$ 486 million9.3%
Ethers, ether-alcohols, ether-phenols, ether-alcohol-phenols, alcohol peroxides…US$ 196 million3.8%
Fats and oils and their fractions of fish or marine mammals; whether or not ref…US$ 91.2 million1.8%
Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbonsUS$ 76.0 million1.5%
Electric accumulators, including separators therefor; whether or not rectangula…US$ 74.4 million1.4%
Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, nitrogenousUS$ 70.9 million1.4%
Flours, meal and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, mol…US$ 63.3 million1.2%
Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)US$ 59.3 million1.1%
Alloy steel bars, rods, shapes and sections; hollow drill bars and rods, of all…US$ 57.0 million1.1%
Fertilizers; mineral or chemical, containing 2 or 3 of the elements nitrogen, p…US$ 56.4 million1.1%
Preparations of a kind used in animal feedingUS$ 53.0 million1.0%
Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash) peroxides…US$ 46.7 million0.9%
Iron or non-alloy steel; flat-rolled products, width 600mm or more, clad, plate…US$ 42.0 million0.8%
Fishing vessels, factory ships and other vessels; for processing or preserving…US$ 29.4 million0.6%
Other headingsUS$ 1,021 million20%

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

BiobíoChile% of each territory's own population · 1,613,059 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Census population	1,613,059	18,480,432	3rd of 16
Average age	38.6 yrs	38.1 yrs	8th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	84.1	79.0	5th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	67.4/km²	24.7/km²	3rd of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Households	579,170	6,596,527	3rd of 16
Dwellings	660,778	7,642,716	3rd of 16
People per household	2.79	2.80	8th of 16
Women	51.9%	51.5%	1st of 16
Men per 100 women	92.6	94.3	16th of 16
Under 15	17.5%	17.7%	11th of 16
65 and over	14.7%	14.0%	7th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	47.6	46.5	10th of 16
One-person households	20.9%	21.8%	15th of 16
Households with children	33.0%	33.2%	9th of 16
Indigenous peoples	9.4%	11.4%	11th of 16
Female-headed households	49.5%	49.9%	7th of 16
Land area	23,935 km²	748,041 km²	10th 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	2.9%	8.7%	13th 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.	59.5%	50.5%	11th 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.	23.3%	23.9%	2nd of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	14.3%	17.2%	15th of 16

See the other 9 indicators

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	46,933	1,608,650	6th of 16
Average age, foreign-born	32.0 yrs	33.5 yrs	12th of 16
Women among foreign-born	50.7%	51.7%	11th of 16
Foreign-born of working age	80.4%	83.1%	15th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	42.0%	34.4%	3rd 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.	3.5%	10.6%	13th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born	13.6 yrs	12.9 yrs	2nd 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.	-140,900	0	16th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	-8.4	0.0	11th 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	10.3 yrs	10.4 yrs	6th of 16
Reached higher education	30.9%	31.1%	4th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17	99.4%	98.6%	3rd 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.	56.9%	55.6%	8th 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.	99.6%	99.8%	12th of 16
Literacy rate	97.1%	97.8%	10th of 16
Reached secondary education	35.4%	36.7%	15th of 16
Primary education only	25.5%	24.1%	9th of 16
Never attended school	3.26%	3.01%	5th 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.	11.9 yrs	12.1 yrs	7th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	11.9 yrs	12.1 yrs	7th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	2.95%	2.18%	7th of 16
Households lacking schooling	17.7%	15.1%	8th 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.	19,846	217,565	3rd of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	29.7%	33.9%	13th 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.	3.4%	3.1%	9th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	68.1%	67.2%	7th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	20.1%	19.7%	5th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	11.8%	13.1%	14th 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.	5.0%	13.0%	15th 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.	48.5%	49.7%	16th 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.

19,846left secondary school in 2024

11,293enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

56.9%continued immediately

68%of those, to a university

5%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

BiobíoChile

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

BiobíoChile

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 Biobío'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 Biobío 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	12.3%	10.6%	4th of 16
Public health insurance	87.7%	82.6%	9th 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.	96.4	82.5	2nd of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	109	100	3rd of 15

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	198,990	1,950,388	3rd of 16
Average age, people with a disability	56.6 yrs	56.4 yrs	8th of 16
Disability among 65+	43.3%	43.0%	9th of 16
Difficulty walking	5.89%	4.92%	3rd of 16
Difficulty seeing	5.45%	4.58%	4th of 16
Difficulty hearing	2.60%	2.16%	3rd of 16
Difficulty concentrating	3.15%	2.70%	2nd of 16
Private health insurance	8.6%	13.2%	5th of 16
No health coverage	1.03%	1.98%	14th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	94.7%	92.1%	3rd of 16
Households lacking health access	6.6%	6.0%	4th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	155,554	1,523,716	2nd of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	3,646	36,698	3rd of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	2.34%	2.41%	9th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.8 days	6.1 days	10th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	22.6	19.9	3rd of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	116	100	2nd of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	8,787	89,723	3rd of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	5.6%	5.9%	9th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	54.5	48.6	5th 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.	109	100	5th 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 femeninosVías urinariasGenitales masculinoshover 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.	19.3%	17.3%	8th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	25.6 UF	32.0 UF	5th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	91.8%	78.9%	6th 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.	71.4	85.6	14th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	49.2%	54.4%	14th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	10.3%	8.6%	2nd of 16
Self-employed	30.0%	33.8%	15th of 16
Extreme poverty	7.2%	6.9%	9th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	15.5%	17.7%	12th of 16
Unemployment rate	10.2%	8.8%	2nd of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 658,998	CLP 783,124	9th 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.	0.477	0.488	4th of 16
Registered firms	115,202	1,582,390	3rd of 16
Annual sales	941,000,639 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	4th 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.	558,209	9,699,164	3rd of 16
Sales per firm	8,168 UF	21,706 UF	8th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	3.2	3.9	3rd of 16
Women among employees	38.7%	40.6%	12th of 16
Independent contractors	221,078	3,958,269	3rd of 16
Contractors as share of workers	28.4%	29.0%	5th 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	4.7%	5.7%	12th of 16
Internet access	91.9%	93.2%	9th 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.	2.2	2.3	12th 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.	1.7	1.6	11th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	567,795	6,408,172	3rd of 16
Critically overcrowded	0.30%	0.57%	13th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings	0.94%	1.13%	12th of 16
Public water network	89.9%	92.3%	9th of 16
Electricity access	99.6%	99.6%	5th of 16
Detached houses	85.6%	78.7%	11th of 16
Apartments	13.6%	19.9%	6th of 16
Precarious wall materials	0.21%	0.23%	13th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings	11.4%	11.9%	13th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit	30,468	491,904	3rd of 16
Housing deficit as share of households	5.3%	7.5%	9th of 16
Renting households	19.7%	26.2%	12th of 16
Owner-occupiers	67.6%	61.1%	4th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	55.0%	24.4%	6th of 16
Commute by public transport	39.8%	42.1%	5th of 16
Walks to work	12.3%	10.2%	9th of 16
Households with a computer	54.9%	54.9%	4th 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.	1.0	1.1	12th 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.	97.0%	97.0%	6th 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.	100.0%	99.9%	3rd 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.	100.0%	100.0%	1st 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.	89.1%	89.4%	8th 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.	98.3%	98.1%	7th 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.	99.8%	99.7%	6th 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.	6.2	5.9	11th 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.	73.3%	80.3%	9th 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.	87.2%	90.0%	7th 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.	95.6%	96.2%	6th 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.	0.6	0.6	13th 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.	99.1%	99.0%	4th 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.	100.0%	99.9%	2nd 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%	1st 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.	90.4%	91.6%	8th 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.	99.0%	98.5%	4th 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.	99.8%	99.8%	6th 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

ElectricityNo heatingOther 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

88.4%

of the registered voted in the first round

88.1%

voted in the runoff

1,379,927

registered voters on the roll

7.6%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman36.2%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist63.8%58.3%

BiobíoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez25.1%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.1%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen13.3%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist27.1%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.6%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.7%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%

BiobíoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile22.1%30.6%

KCambio por Chile24.2%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido22.9%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente13.0%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas6.3%6.9%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista4.5%2.6%

APartido Ecologista Verde5.6%0.8%

EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%

GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%

FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios—0.6%

HPopular—0.2%

Independents outside a pact1.5%0.7%

BiobíoChileshare 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.

Región del Biobío renewed its senators in 2021, not in 2025, so Biobío has no Senate result in this election.

13 deputies, by list

K. Cambio por Chile4
J. Chile Grande y Unido4
C. Unidad por Chile3
I. Partido de la Gente2

Elected in districts 20, 21.

Every name

District 20

Francesca Muñoz Gonzalez Partido Social Cristiano · list K · 54,759 votes
Paz Charpentier Rajcevich Partido Republicano de Chile · list K · 45,604 votes
Alvaro Ortiz Vera Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 42,415 votes
Antonio Rivas Villalobos Partido Socialista de Chile · list C · 27,791 votes
Marlene Perez Cartes Independiente Union Democrata Independiente · list J · 27,001 votes
Sergio Bobadilla Muñoz Union Democrata Independiente · list J · 19,468 votes
Patricio Antonio Briones Moller Partido de la Gente · list I · 18,387 votes
Roberto Arroyo Muñoz Partido Social Cristiano · list K · 7,963 votes

District 21

Flor Weisse Novoa Union Democrata Independiente · list J · 37,017 votes
Joanna Perez Olea Partido Democratas Chile · list J · 33,310 votes
Cristobal Urruticoechea Rios Partido Nacional Libertario · list K · 28,259 votes
Patricio Pinilla Valencia Partido Democrata Cristiano · list C · 20,206 votes
Lilian Alejandra Betancurt Delgado Partido de la Gente · list I · 14,640 votes

Territories within

3

Province	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Concepción	1,025,448	3.6%	10.8 yrs	18.3%
Arauco	166,231	0.9%	9.0 yrs	25.6%
Biobío	421,380	2.0%	9.5 yrs	20.9%
Biobío	1,613,059	2.9%	10.3 yrs	19.3%

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 Biobío

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Biobío is specialised in

Most over-represented in Biobío

The land and who works it

Foreign trade

Month by month

What Biobío 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