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Región de Los RíosRegión de Los Ríos

Compare Los Ríos with another place
Census population
398,230
11th of 16
Population density
21.8/km²
8th of 16
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
11th of 16
Foreign-born share
1.9%
16th of 16

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Arrived since 202016th of 16 · Chile 34.4%28.0%
Foreign-born share of working-age population16th of 16 · Chile 10.6%2.3%
Average schooling, foreign-born1st of 16 · Chile 12.9 yrs13.7 yrs
Public water network16th of 16 · Chile 92.3%80.1%
Households heating with wood1st of 16 · Chile 24.4%76.2%
Lives in the commune where they were born1st of 16 · Chile 50.5%64.1%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.4 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF25.4 UF
In UF, Chile's inflation-indexed unit, so the twenty years are comparable without deflating. Grey is the country.

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 9,111 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
64.1%
1st of 16
Came from another commune of the same region
11.4%
11th of 16
Came from another region
22.4%
5th of 16
Net internal migration
-61,961
-15.1 per 100 residents
Los Ríos462,632 peopleMetropolitana34,022 peopleLos Lagos19,889 peopleAraucanía15,180 peopleBiobío7,428 peopleValparaíso3,830 peopleMaule2,332 peopleO'Higgins1,940 peopleMagallanes1,600 peopleabroad8,255 peopleMetropolitana63,778 peopleLos Lagos26,474 peopleAraucanía22,671 peopleValparaíso9,177 peopleBiobío8,805 peopleMaule4,220 peopleO'Higgins4,183 peopleAntofagasta3,153 peopleMagallanes2,817 peopleTarapacá2,340 peopleÑuble1,844 peopleAysén1,537 peopleArica y Parinacota964 peopleLos Ríos405,145 people
Los Ríos462,632 peopleMetropolitana34,022 peopleLos Lagos19,889 peopleAraucanía15,180 peopleBiobío7,428 peopleValparaíso3,830 peopleMaule2,332 peopleO'Higgins1,940 peopleMagallanes1,600 peopleabroad8,255 peopleMetropolitana63,778 peopleLos Lagos26,474 peopleAraucanía22,671 peopleValparaíso9,177 peopleBiobío8,805 peopleMaule4,220 peopleO'Higgins4,183 peopleAntofagasta3,153 peopleMagallanes2,817 peopleTarapacá2,340 peopleÑuble1,844 peopleAysén1,537 peopleArica y Parinac…964 peopleLos Ríos405,145 people
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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Los Ríos 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
Valdivia 75%Ranco 25%Valdivia43%Panguipulli8.8%Mariquina5.8%Los Lagos5.4%Paillaco5.0%Lanco4.2%Máfil2.0%Corral1.4%La Unión9.8%Río Bueno8.4%Futrono3.9%Lago Ranco2.6%
Valdivia 75%Ranco 25%Valdivia43%Panguipulli8.8%Mariqu…5.8%Los Lagos5.4%Paillaco5.0%Lanco4.2%MáfilLa Unión9.8%Río Bueno8.4%Futro…3.9%LagoRanco
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 Los Ríos'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
Unemployment+2.3 pts on a year ago10.6%010203015.8% · Jun–Aug 2020Employment rate−1.4 pts on a year ago52.2%4050607042.0% · May–Jul 2020Participation±0.0 pts on a year ago58.4%4050607049.0% · May–Jul 2020201020122014201620182020202220242026
Unemployment+2.3 pts on a year ago10.6%010203015.8% · Jun–Aug 2020Employment rate−1.4 pts on a year ago52.2%4050607042.0% · May–Jul 2020Participation±0.0 pts on a year ago58.4%4050607049.0% · May–Jul 20202012201620202024

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520248Public administration1Public administration▲71Agriculture and fishing2Agriculture and fishing▼12Construction3Construction▼14Retail and wholesale4Retail and wholesale3Manufacturing5Manufacturing▼26Health6Health5Education7Education▼211Accommodation and food8Accommodation and food▲39Transport9Transport7Administrative services10Administrative services▼312Professional services11Professional services▲113Information and communications12Information and communications▲110Other services13Other services▼3
2005202481Public administration▲712Agriculture and fishing▼123Construction▼144Retail and wholesale35Manufacturing▼266Health57Education▼2118Accommodation and food▲399Transport710Administrative services▼31211Professional services▲11312Information and communications▲11013Other services▼3

The ten branches that employ most of Los Ríos

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

Dependent workers, projected

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

50 k70 k90 k110 k130 kprojection →122 k2029 · central2005201520242029
50 k70 k90 k110 k130 kprojection →122 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.3% a year observed · 2.7% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →169 M2029 · central2005201520242029
050 M100 M150 M200 Mprojection →169 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval5.1% a year observed · -0.1% projected

What Los Ríos is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Los Ríos 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
107,205
formal workers
12/16
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Enseñanza superior en universidad…Otras actividades de telecomunica…Mantenimiento y reparación de veh…Distribución de energía eléctricaServicio notarialCultivo de frutos oleaginosos (in…Fabricación de recipientes de mad…Administración de tarjetas de cré…Otras actividades de servicios de…How much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.73.7Fabricación de hojas de madera pa…Distribución de energía eléctricaAdministración de tarjetas de cré…Fabricación de ropa de trabajoHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Los Ríos

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

ActivityDivisionWorkers hereTimes the national share
Cultivo de floresCultivo de plantas no perennes58338.4×
Transporte de pasajeros por vías de navegación interioresTransporte por vías de navegación interiores26027.7×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción lecheraGanadería2,51918.3×
Cría de ganado bovino para la producción de carne o como ganado reproductorGanadería1,37211.9×
Gestión de salas de pool; gestión (explotación) de juegos electrónicosOtras actividades de esparcimiento y recreativas28510.4×
Reparación de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesReparación de productos elaborados de metal, maquinaria y equipo2839.3×
Actividades de residenciales para turistasActividades de alojamiento para estancias cortas678.6×
Elaboración de cacao, chocolate y de productos de confiteríaElaboración de otros productos alimenticios4638.3×
Elaboración de productos lácteosElaboración de productos lácteos1,8357.9×
Servicios de transporte de escolaresOtras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre2117.7×
Extracción de piedra, arena y arcillaExtracción de piedra, arena y arcilla5667.2×
Administración de tarjetas de créditoActividades auxiliares de servicios financieros, excepto las de seguros y fondos de pensiones456.9×

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
1,224,008
hectares in holdings
89.0%
of them under a named use
11.4%
of the crop land is irrigated
10,165
holdings with land here
Woodland 65%Pasture 18%Not farmed 12%Annua… 5.4%Native woodland49%Forestplantations16%Pasture18%Scrub, barrenground andbuildings11%Foddercrops2.7%Cereals2.0%
Woodland 65%Pasture 18%Not farmed 12%Native woodland49%Forestplantatio…16%Pasture18%Scrub,barrenground and…11%FoddercropsCereals2.0%
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.

Foreign trade

Aduanas · January–July 2026

What export declarations name as produced in Los Ríos, 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$ 409 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +66% vs January–July 2025
0.5%
of everything Chile exported
—
no customs office has its seat here

Month by month

020406080US$ MJan2025FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAug
020406080US$ MJ2025FMAMJJASONDJ2026FMAMJJA
Exports from Los Ríosshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Los Ríos exports

Pulp and paper 52%Animals and animal products 17%Wood and cork 14%Vegetable products 8.9%Food, beverages and… 6.4%Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades52%Milk and cream;concentrated orcontaining adde…8.1%Cheese and curd4.8%Whey andproductsconsisti…1.7%Meatofbovin…1.2%Fishfilletsand…Edi…off…Wood sawn orchippedlengthwise,…6.0%Fuel wood,in logs,billets,…3.7%Wood(includingstrips,…2.7%Build…joine…and…Parti…board,orien…Fruit, fresh; n.e.c.in chapter 086.0%Fruit andnuts;uncooked or…Bulbs,…Aprico…Loc…bea…sea…Fruit, nutsand otheredible parts…4.5%Fruitor nutjuice…1.8%Serv…
Pulp and paper 52%Animals and … 17%Wood and… 14%Vegetable … 8.9%Food, b… 6.4%Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades52%Milk and cream;concentrated orcontaining adde…Cheeseand curd4.8%Whey an…Fis…Wood sawn orchippedlengthwise,…Fuelwood,in…3.7%Wood(incl…strip…Fruit,fresh;n.e.c. in…6.0%Fruitand…Fruit,nuts andother…Fru…ornut…
Special treatmentsHides and leatherPlastics and rubberPrecision instrumentshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

ChapterCustoms officeDestination47 Pulp of wood or other fib…US$ 213 million · 52%04 Dairy produce; birds' egg…US$ 60.3 million · 15%44 Wood and articles of wood…US$ 56.6 million · 14%08 Fruit and nuts, edible; p…US$ 32.7 million · 8.0%20 Preparations of vegetable…US$ 25.8 million · 6.3%02 Meat and edible meat offalUS$ 5.8 million · 1.4%Other chaptersUS$ 14.9 million · 3.6%TalcahuanoUS$ 345 million · 84%OsornoUS$ 21.5 million · 5.3%ValparaísoUS$ 18.2 million · 4.5%Los AndesUS$ 3.8 million · 0.9%San AntonioUS$ 15.3 million · 3.7%Other officesUS$ 5.8 million · 1.4%IndiaUS$ 27.3 million · 6.7%MexicoUS$ 20.2 million · 4.9%ThailandUS$ 38.1 million · 9.3%ColombiaUS$ 23.1 million · 5.7%ChinaUS$ 173 million · 42%JapanUS$ 18.1 million · 4.4%United StatesUS$ 31.5 million · 7.7%OthersUS$ 78.1 million · 19%
ChapterCustoms officeDestination47 Pulp of…52%04 Dairy p…15%44 Wood an…14%08 Fruit a…8.0%20 Prepara…6.3%02 Meat an…1.4%Other chap…3.6%Talca…84%Osorno5.3%Valpa…4.5%Los A…0.9%San A…3.7%Other…1.4%India6.7%Mexico4.9%Thailand9.3%Colombia5.7%China42%Japan4.4%United Sta…7.7%Others19%

Where its exports go

  1. ChinaUS$ 173 million42%
  2. ThailandUS$ 38.1 million9.3%
  3. United StatesUS$ 31.5 million7.7%
  4. IndiaUS$ 27.3 million6.7%
  5. ColombiaUS$ 23.1 million5.7%
  6. MexicoUS$ 20.2 million4.9%
  7. JapanUS$ 18.1 million4.4%
  8. South KoreaUS$ 14.4 million3.5%
  9. NetherlandsUS$ 11.3 million2.8%
  10. BrazilUS$ 9.2 million2.3%
  11. United KingdomUS$ 7.1 million1.7%
  12. PeruUS$ 6.4 million1.6%
  13. OthersUS$ 29.6 million7.2%

Through which office

Customs officeRegion of its seatExports%
TalcahuanoBiobíoUS$ 345 million84%
OsornoLos LagosUS$ 21.5 million5.3%
ValparaísoValparaísoUS$ 18.2 million4.5%
San AntonioValparaísoUS$ 15.3 million3.7%
Los AndesValparaísoUS$ 3.8 million0.9%
IquiqueTarapacáUS$ 3.0 million0.7%
MetropolitanaMetropolitanaUS$ 1.8 million0.4%
AraucaníaAraucaníaUS$ 765 thousand0.2%
AricaArica y ParinacotaUS$ 306 thousand0.1%

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossingComunaLoaded (exports)%
CorralCorralUS$ 23.4 million100%
HuahumPanguipulliUS$ 33 thousand0.1%

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 →

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

MenWomen001122334455%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
MenWomen00224466%0 to 45 to 910 to 1415 to 1920 to 2425 to 2930 to 3435 to 3940 to 4445 to 4950 to 5455 to 5960 to 6465 to 6970 to 7475 to 7980 to 8485 and over
Los RíosChile% of each territory's own population · 398,230 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Census population
398,230
18,480,43211th of 16
Average age
39.0 yrs
38.1 yrs3rd of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
89.2
79.03rd of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
21.8/km²
24.7/km²8th of 16
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Households
148,643
6,596,52711th of 16
Dwellings
183,479
7,642,71611th of 16
People per household
2.68
2.8013th of 16
Women
51.6%
51.5%5th of 16
Men per 100 women
93.8
94.312th of 16
Under 15
17.3%
17.7%13th of 16
65 and over
15.4%
14.0%3rd of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
48.5
46.57th of 16
One-person households
23.3%
21.8%2nd of 16
Households with children
31.4%
33.2%14th of 16
Indigenous peoples
24.2%
11.4%7th of 16
Female-headed households
49.7%
49.9%5th of 16
Land area
18,233 km²
748,041 km²11th of 16

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Los Ríos28%Arrived since 202072%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Los Ríos28%Arrived since …72%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Arrived since 2020Arrived before 2020% of the foreign-born population
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born share
1.9%
8.7%16th 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.
64.1%
50.5%1st 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.
11.4%
23.9%11th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
22.4%
17.2%5th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born population
7,508
1,608,65015th of 16
Average age, foreign-born
35.0 yrs
33.5 yrs2nd of 16
Women among foreign-born
50.0%
51.7%15th of 16
Foreign-born of working age
82.8%
83.1%3rd of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
28.0%
34.4%16th 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.
2.3%
10.6%16th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.7 yrs
12.9 yrs1st 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.
-61,961
012th of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
-15.1
0.016th of 16

Education

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How far schooling went

Los Ríos26%Higher37%Secondary29%Primary only4.9%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Los Ríos26%Higher37%Secondary29%Primary onlyChile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Average years of schooling
9.9 yrs
10.4 yrs11th of 16
Reached higher education
26.4%
31.1%9th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17
99.3%
98.6%4th 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.
57.0%
55.6%7th of 16
See the other 17 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
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.
100.8%
99.8%6th of 16
Literacy rate
96.9%
97.8%12th of 16
Reached secondary education
36.7%
36.7%9th of 16
Primary education only
28.8%
24.1%7th of 16
Never attended school
3.16%
3.01%9th 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.
11.4 yrs
12.1 yrs11th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
11.5 yrs
12.1 yrs11th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
3.11%
2.18%5th of 16
Households lacking schooling
17.9%
15.1%7th 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.
5,195
217,56511th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
36.6%
33.9%7th 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.
12.3%
3.1%2nd of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
67.4%
67.2%9th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
14.3%
19.7%12th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
18.3%
13.1%7th 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.
29.1%
13.0%5th 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.
51.5%
49.7%2nd 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.

5,195left secondary school in 2024
2,959enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
57.0%continued immediately
67%of those, to a university
29%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialTecnologia MedicaOdontologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaArquitectura
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoEnfermeriaPsicologiaKinesiologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialTecnologia MedicaOdontologiaTecnico en EnfermeriaArquitectura
Los RíosChile

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

0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanities
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Health and welfareEngineering and industryBusiness and lawEducationServicesInformation technologyAgriculture and veterinarySocial sciencesNatural sciencesArts and humanities
Los RíosChile

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

02,0004,0006,0002006201520245,1952,959
02,0004,0006,0002006201520245,1952,959
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 Los Ríos'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.

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 Los Ríos 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

Los Ríos90%Fonasa7.2%Chile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Los Ríos90%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.6%
10.6%6th of 16
Public health insurance
89.7%
82.6%4th 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.
93.8
82.53rd of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
105
1005th of 15
See the other 21 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
People with a disability
46,185
1,950,38811th of 16
Average age, people with a disability
58.2 yrs
56.4 yrs2nd of 16
Disability among 65+
45.5%
43.0%2nd of 16
Difficulty walking
5.51%
4.92%6th of 16
Difficulty seeing
5.10%
4.58%6th of 16
Difficulty hearing
2.51%
2.16%5th of 16
Difficulty concentrating
2.79%
2.70%7th of 16
Private health insurance
7.2%
13.2%9th of 16
No health coverage
1.09%
1.98%13th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.5%
92.1%11th of 16
Households lacking health access
7.0%
6.0%3rd of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
37,368
1,523,71611th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
901
36,69811th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.41%
2.41%8th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.1 days
6.1 days8th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.6
19.92nd of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
112
1004th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
2,416
89,72310th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.5%
5.9%4th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
60.7
48.61st 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.
119
1003rd of 16

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and… 17%Pregnancy, bi… 13%Tumours, blood … 13%Infections and o… 8.6%Mind, nerves and… 5.5%Digestive system14%Genitouri…system8.3%Circulatorysystem11%Respiratorysystem9.5%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskeletal4.8%SkinPregnancy andchildbirth11%Perinatal…Congen…Cancers andtumours8.7%Endocrine andmetabolicBlo…andimm…Contactwithhealth…3.5%Ill-definedsymptomsInfectiousand parasiticMental andbehaviouralNervo…system
Digestive and urinary… 23%Heart and lungs 20%Injuries, bones and s… 17%Pregnancy, birth and … 13%Tumours, blood and… 13%Infecti… 8.6%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system8.3%Circulato…system11%Respirat…system9.5%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculo…4.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Per…con…Con…Cancers andtumours8.7%Endoc…andmetab…Contactwith…Ill-defin…Mentaland…Nervo…system
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 digestivos28%Sangre y sistema linfático18%Mama10%Vías urinarias8.2%Genitalesfemeninos7.3%Sitios maldefinidos6.2%Genitalesmasculinos6.0%Tiroidesyendocri…3.5%Piel ymelanoma2.6%Encéfaloy sistemanervioso2.5%Víasrespir…2.4%Tejidosblandos1.9%Huesos1.6%Sitiosreserv…1.5%
Órganos digestivos28%Sangre y sistemalinfático18%Mama10%Vías urinarias8.2%Genitalesfemeninos7.3%Sitios maldefinidos6.2%Genitalesmasculinos6.0%Tiroid…yendocr…3.5%Piel ymelano…2.6%Encéfa…ysistem…Víasrespir…2.4%Teji…blan…Huesos1.6%Sitiosreser…
Órganos digestivosSangre y sistema linfáticoMamaVías urinariasGenitales femeninosSitios mal definidoshover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile

Economy and poverty

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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
22.3%
17.3%4th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
25.4 UF
32.0 UF7th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
97.3%
78.9%5th 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.
85.1
85.66th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
49.9%
54.4%12th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
9.2%
8.6%7th of 16
Self-employed
34.9%
33.8%9th of 16
Extreme poverty
8.5%
6.9%7th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
14.4%
17.7%13th of 16
Unemployment rate
9.2%
8.8%6th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 626,303
CLP 783,12412th 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.
0.475
0.4886th of 16
Registered firms
33,908
1,582,39011th of 16
Annual sales
169,832,212 UF
34,347,683,688 UF12th 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.
107,237
9,699,16412th of 16
Sales per firm
5,009 UF
21,706 UF12th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
2.2
3.914th of 16
Women among employees
43.2%
40.6%4th of 16
Independent contractors
55,025
3,958,26910th of 16
Contractors as share of workers
33.9%
29.0%2nd of 16

Employment by industry

State and social services 26%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and construction 21%Natural re… 12%Advanced serv… 9.2%Other services 6.2%Education11%Health8.8%Public administration6.0%Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.5%Accommodationand food5.2%Construction9.5%Manufacturing9.3%Electricity…Water an…Agricultureand fishing12%Administrati…services3.3%ProfessionalservicesInfor…andcommu…1.6%Finan…and…Real…Domesticwork3.1%Otherservi…2.0%
State and social ser… 26%Trade and logistics 26%Industry and co… 21%Natura… 12%Advanced… 9.2%Other se… 6.2%Education11%Health8.8%Publ…admi…Retail andwholesale15%Transport5.5%Accommod…and food5.2%Construc…9.5%Manufact…9.3%Agricultu…andfishing12%Administr…servicesProfessio…servicesInf…andcom…Fina…Domes…workOth…ser…
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

Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 30%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales20%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperators8.8%Skilledagricultur…6.8%Clericalsupport5.5%Professionals17%Technicians9.8%Managers3.7%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 56%Managers and professionals 30%Elementar… 14%Service andsales20%Craft andtrades15%Plant andmachineoperatorsSkilledagricult…6.8%Cleric…support5.5%Professionals17%Technicians9.8%ManagersElementaryoccupations14%
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

Los Ríos95%HouseChile79%House20%Flat
Los Ríos95%HouseChile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.8%
5.7%10th of 16
Internet access
89.9%
93.2%13th 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.
3.9
2.33rd 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.
3.2
1.62nd of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
146,392
6,408,17211th of 16
Critically overcrowded
0.31%
0.57%10th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.17%
1.13%9th of 16
Public water network
80.1%
92.3%16th of 16
Electricity access
99.2%
99.6%13th of 16
Detached houses
95.4%
78.7%3rd of 16
Apartments
3.7%
19.9%14th of 16
Precarious wall materials
0.38%
0.23%6th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings
15.4%
11.9%7th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit
7,099
491,90414th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households
4.8%
7.5%13th of 16
Renting households
19.7%
26.2%11th of 16
Owner-occupiers
64.5%
61.1%9th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
76.2%
24.4%1st of 16
Commute by public transport
30.2%
42.1%11th of 16
Walks to work
16.1%
10.2%2nd of 16
Households with a computer
48.7%
54.9%12th 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.
1.7
1.13rd 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.
89.5%
97.0%16th 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.
99.8%
99.9%9th 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.
75.3%
89.4%15th 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.
94.2%
98.1%13th 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.
99.7%
99.7%8th 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.
9.1
5.96th 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.
64.2%
80.3%12th 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.
77.6%
90.0%13th 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.
90.5%
96.2%11th 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
0.62nd 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.
97.3%
99.0%13th 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%11th 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.
77.5%
91.6%15th 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.
96.3%
98.5%12th 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.
99.9%
99.8%5th of 16

How people commute

Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 19%Othe… 7.4%Car42%Public transport30%Walking16%Bicy…Other7.1%
Private vehicle 43%Public transport 30%On foot or by bicycle 19%Other … 7.4%Car42%Public transport30%Walking16%Bicyc…3.4%Other7.1%
Public transporthover a tile for its count and its distance from Chile; click a group to open itFour modes, grouped by PuroChile.

Housing tenure

Owned 64%Rented 20%Provided rent-f… 12%Owned outright56%Owned, still paying8.8%Rented, with contract12%Rented, no contract8.2%Provided byfamily8.8%Provided by employerOtherarra…
Owned 64%Rented 20%Provided re… 12%Owned outright56%Owned,stillpaying8.8%Rented, withcontract12%Rented,nocontract8.2%Providedby family8.8%Pro…byemp…Oth…arr…
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

Wood and biomass 83%Fossil fuels 9.7%Electricity 5.9%Firewood76%Pellets6.6%Paraffin5.0%Gas4.7%Electricity5.9%No heating
Wood and biomass 83%Fossil fuels 9.7%Electricity 5.9%Firewood76%ParaffinGasElectricity
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
84.8%
of the registered voted in the first round
84.5%
voted in the runoff
370,100
registered voters on the roll
6.5%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman37.2%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist62.8%58.3%
Los RíosChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez20.3%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman24.4%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.0%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.7%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist26.9%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet9.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%
Los RíosChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.3%30.6%
KCambio por Chile18.1%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido23.6%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente9.6%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.4%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%
HPopular—0.2%
Independents outside a pact10.8%0.7%
Los RíosChileshare of the valid vote

Territories within

2
ProvinceCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Valdivia299,7982.2%10.1 yrs23.4%
Ranco98,4321.0%9.1 yrs24.3%
Los Ríos398,2301.9%9.9 yrs22.3%