Región de Tarapacá

Where it stands out

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

People per household1st of 16 · Chile 2.803.04

Average age16th of 16 · Chile 38.1 yrs34.0 yrs

Women16th of 16 · Chile 51.5%50.4%

Men per 100 women1st of 16 · Chile 94.398.3

Under 151st of 16 · Chile 17.7%21.8%

65 and over16th of 16 · Chile 14.0%9.6%

Where the people here are from

Casen 2024 · 9,718 surveyed

Lives in the commune where they were born

42.2%

15th of 16

Came from another commune of the same region

12.0%

9th of 16

Came from another region

26.6%

2nd of 16

Net internal migration

+43,092

+10.6 per 100 residents

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

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 construction17,52515.6%+19%02Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics15,72414.0%−11%03EducationState and social services12,74911.4%+183%04Administrative servicesAdvanced services10,7859.6%+296%05TransportTrade and logistics10,7809.6%+155%06HealthState and social services9,8688.8%+268%07ManufacturingIndustry and construction6,4665.8%+11%08Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics6,3225.6%+111%09Public administrationState and social services5,2464.7%+297%10MiningNatural resources4,9684.4%+39%

Dependent workers, projected

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

observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.6% 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% interval4.7% a year observed · 1.9% projected

What Tarapacá is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Tarapacá employs more people in 123 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.

123

activities it is specialised in

111,988

formal workers

3/16

by the complexity of what it is specialised in

Most over-represented in Tarapacá

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
Extracción de minerales para la fabricación de abonos y productos químicos n.c.p.	Explotación de minas y canteras n.c.p.	689	47.6×
Servicios relacionados con la pesca marítima	Pesca	144	14.2×
Alquiler de equipos de transporte sin operario, excepto vehículos automotores	Alquiler y arrendamiento de otros tipos de maquinaria, equipo y bienes tangibles	352	12.4×
Actividades de centros de salud municipalizados (servicios de salud pública)	Actividades de médicos y odontólogos	5,385	11.1×
Explotación de otras minas y canteras n.c.p.	Explotación de minas y canteras n.c.p.	3,137	10.2×
Tratamiento y revestimiento de metales, maquinado	Fabricación de otros productos elaborados de metal; actividades de servicios de trabajo de metales	481	9.9×
Venta al por mayor de desechos metálicos (chatarra)	Otras actividades de venta al por mayor especializada	192	9.4×
Fabricación de cuerdas, cordeles, bramantes y redes	Fabricación de otros productos textiles	81	8.7×
Promoción y organización de competencias deportivas	Actividades deportivas	64	7.5×
Fabricación de fibras de vidrio	Fabricación de vidrio y productos de vidrio	42	7.2×
Servicios de transporte de trabajadores	Otras actividades de transporte por vía terrestre	1,566	6.6×
Actividades de residenciales para estudiantes y trabajadores	Otras actividades de alojamiento	223	6.5×

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

2,363,446

hectares in holdings

9.5%

of them under a named use

83.2%

of the crop land is irrigated

1,116

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 2,363,446 hectares of holdings in Tarapacá 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 83.2% above is a share of the 1,818 hectares the question applies to, not of the whole.

Of the 1,116 holdings with land here, 281 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 Tarapacá, 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$ 4,524 M

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

5.7%

of everything Chile exported

US$ 736 M

cleared in Iquique · −10% vs January–July 2025

1.4%

of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

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

What Tarapacá exports

Stone, ceramics and glassOther sectionsPulp and paperhover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

Where its exports go

ChinaUS$ 2,366 million52%
JapanUS$ 542 million12%
South KoreaUS$ 481 million11%
IndiaUS$ 355 million7.9%
GermanyUS$ 265 million5.9%
United StatesUS$ 126 million2.8%
SpainUS$ 76.9 million1.7%
MexicoUS$ 72.3 million1.6%
BulgariaUS$ 36.6 million0.8%
MalaysiaUS$ 32.3 million0.7%
BrazilUS$ 30.3 million0.7%
NetherlandsUS$ 28.9 million0.6%
OthersUS$ 111 million2.5%

Where what is cleared here comes from

ChinaUS$ 334 million45%
United StatesUS$ 155 million21%
JapanUS$ 73.6 million10.0%
GermanyUS$ 44.7 million6.1%
South KoreaUS$ 26.5 million3.6%
United KingdomUS$ 24.3 million3.3%
PeruUS$ 11.5 million1.6%
IndiaUS$ 10.9 million1.5%
United Arab EmiratesUS$ 7.4 million1.0%
ItalyUS$ 6.6 million0.9%
OthersUS$ 41.7 million5.7%

Through which office

Customs office	Region of its seat	Exports	%	Imports	%
Iquique	Tarapacá	US$ 3,507 million	78%	US$ 736 million	100%
Antofagasta	Antofagasta	US$ 863 million	19%	—	—
San Antonio	Valparaíso	US$ 79.6 million	1.8%	—	—
Coquimbo	Coquimbo	US$ 42.6 million	0.9%	—	—
Valparaíso	Valparaíso	US$ 19.7 million	0.4%	—	—
Arica	Arica y Parinacota	US$ 8.3 million	0.2%	—	—
Metropolitana	Metropolitana	US$ 3.1 million	0.1%	—	—
Los Andes	Valparaíso	US$ 826 thousand	<0.1%	—	—

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossing	Comuna	Loaded (exports)	%	Unloaded (imports)	%
Patache	Iquique	US$ 3,023 million	81%	—	—
Iquique	Iquique	US$ 560 million	15%	US$ 733 million	100%
Patillos	Iquique	US$ 83.2 million	2.2%	US$ 2 thousand	<0.1%
Colchane	Colchane	US$ 49.5 million	1.3%	US$ 1.6 million	0.2%
Zona Franca Iquique	Iquique	—	—	US$ 735 thousand	0.1%
Aeropuerto Diego Aracena	Iquique	US$ 84 thousand	<0.1%	US$ 34 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

Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)US$ 239 million32%
Vehicles; for the transport of goodsUS$ 70.7 million9.6%
Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, exca…US$ 62.0 million8.4%
New pneumatic tyres, of rubberUS$ 50.5 million6.9%
Special purpose motor vehicles; not those for the transport of persons or goods…US$ 40.1 million5.4%
Boards, panels, consoles, desks, cabinets, bases with apparatus of heading no.…US$ 35.7 million4.8%
Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c…US$ 27.1 million3.7%
Mercancías que lleguen al país para los organismos internacionales y sus agenci…US$ 20.4 million2.8%
Perfumes and toilet watersUS$ 16.4 million2.2%
Iron or steel; articles, n.e.c. in chapter 73US$ 13.5 million1.8%
Derricks, cranes, including cable cranes, mobile lifting frames, straddle carri…US$ 12.1 million1.6%
Motor cars and other motor vehicles; principally designed for the transport of…US$ 10.7 million1.5%
Textiles; worn clothing and other worn articlesUS$ 10.5 million1.4%
Fats and oils and their fractions of fish or marine mammals; whether or not ref…US$ 9.4 million1.3%
Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixi…US$ 8.3 million1.1%
Other headingsUS$ 110 million15%

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

Population and territory

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Population pyramid

TarapacáChile% of each territory's own population · 369,806 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)

Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Census population	369,806	18,480,432	12th of 16
Average age	34.0 yrs	38.1 yrs	16th of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.	43.9	79.0	16th of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.	8.7/km²	24.7/km²	12th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Households	121,511	6,596,527	12th of 16
Dwellings	143,253	7,642,716	12th of 16
People per household	3.04	2.80	1st of 16
Women	50.4%	51.5%	16th of 16
Men per 100 women	98.3	94.3	1st of 16
Under 15	21.8%	17.7%	1st of 16
65 and over	9.6%	14.0%	16th of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.	45.6	46.5	12th of 16
One-person households	21.1%	21.8%	13th of 16
Households with children	41.1%	33.2%	1st of 16
Indigenous peoples	24.3%	11.4%	6th of 16
Female-headed households	47.7%	49.9%	15th of 16
Land area	42,323 km²	748,041 km²	6th 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	23.0%	8.7%	1st 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.	42.2%	50.5%	15th 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.	12.0%	23.9%	9th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.	26.6%	17.2%	2nd of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Foreign-born population	84,935	1,608,650	4th of 16
Average age, foreign-born	31.7 yrs	33.5 yrs	15th of 16
Women among foreign-born	53.2%	51.7%	3rd of 16
Foreign-born of working age	82.3%	83.1%	5th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.	36.2%	34.4%	9th 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.	27.5%	10.6%	1st of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born	11.4 yrs	12.9 yrs	15th of 16
Net internal migration · People who arrived from another comuna minus people born here who live in another comuna. It is a lifetime balance, not a year's. Chile adds to zero by construction: nobody leaves the country in this count.	43,092	0	3rd of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.	10.6	0.0	1st 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	10.1 yrs	10.4 yrs	8th of 16
Reached higher education	26.1%	31.1%	10th of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17	98.7%	98.6%	11th 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.	54.0%	55.6%	13th 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.	99.0%	99.8%	14th of 16
Literacy rate	98.9%	97.8%	2nd of 16
Reached secondary education	42.0%	36.7%	1st of 16
Primary education only	22.7%	24.1%	11th of 16
Never attended school	3.17%	3.01%	8th of 16
Average years of schooling, men · The census publishes this average over the population aged 18 or over and crosses age with sex only in five-year bands, so it is weighted by the population aged 15 or over of each sex. Rebuilt from the 346 comunas it gives 12.1 years, the same figure INE published for the country.	12.3 yrs	12.1 yrs	6th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.	12.1 yrs	12.1 yrs	6th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.	1.08%	2.18%	15th of 16
Households lacking schooling	15.6%	15.1%	10th 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.	4,871	217,565	12th of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.	50.9%	33.9%	1st 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.	14.3%	3.1%	1st of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	63.7%	67.2%	12th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	18.5%	19.7%	7th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.	17.9%	13.1%	8th 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.	22.6%	13.0%	8th 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%	11th 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.

4,871left secondary school in 2024

2,628enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025

54.0%continued immediately

64%of those, to a university

23%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

TarapacáChile

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

TarapacáChile

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 Tarapacá'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 Tarapacá 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	8.8%	10.6%	15th of 16
Public health insurance	84.9%	82.6%	13th 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.	78.0	82.5	11th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	91	100	13th of 15

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
People with a disability	32,671	1,950,388	12th of 16
Average age, people with a disability	50.7 yrs	56.4 yrs	16th of 16
Disability among 65+	33.9%	43.0%	16th of 16
Difficulty walking	3.66%	4.92%	15th of 16
Difficulty seeing	4.03%	4.58%	13th of 16
Difficulty hearing	1.60%	2.16%	15th of 16
Difficulty concentrating	2.25%	2.70%	13th of 16
Private health insurance	8.0%	13.2%	8th of 16
No health coverage	3.55%	1.98%	1st of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.	88.9%	92.1%	14th of 16
Households lacking health access	6.5%	6.0%	5th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.	28,847	1,523,716	12th of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.	477	36,698	13th of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.	1.65%	2.41%	14th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.	5.2 days	6.1 days	13th of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.	12.9	19.9	15th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.	102	100	8th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.	1,083	89,723	14th of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.	3.8%	5.9%	15th of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.	29.3	48.6	15th 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.	73	100	14th 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 digestivosMamaSangre y sistema linfáticoVías urinariasGenitales femeninosTiroides y endocrinashover 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.	20.8%	17.3%	6th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.	24.8 UF	32.0 UF	9th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.	84.7%	78.9%	13th 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.	71.2	85.6	15th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.	57.7%	54.4%	4th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.	8.2%	8.6%	11th of 16
Self-employed	38.3%	33.8%	2nd of 16
Extreme poverty	9.0%	6.9%	6th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.	22.2%	17.7%	1st of 16
Unemployment rate	7.5%	8.8%	14th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.	CLP 682,509	CLP 783,124	6th 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.	0.429	0.488	14th of 16
Registered firms	26,326	1,582,390	12th of 16
Annual sales	320,488,008 UF	34,347,683,688 UF	8th 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.	112,008	9,699,164	11th of 16
Sales per firm	12,174 UF	21,706 UF	4th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.	2.8	3.9	8th of 16
Women among employees	38.1%	40.6%	14th of 16
Independent contractors	41,914	3,958,269	12th of 16
Contractors as share of workers	27.2%	29.0%	8th 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	10.4%	5.7%	1st of 16
Internet access	95.4%	93.2%	4th of 16
Average distance to a facility with an emergency service · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	1.3	2.3	15th 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.	1.6	1.6	12th of 16

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Indicator	Value	Chile	Rank
Occupied dwellings with residents	116,102	6,408,172	12th of 16
Critically overcrowded	1.43%	0.57%	1st of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings	4.53%	1.13%	2nd of 16
Public water network	88.4%	92.3%	10th of 16
Electricity access	99.3%	99.6%	12th of 16
Detached houses	68.6%	78.7%	15th of 16
Apartments	25.1%	19.9%	2nd of 16
Precarious wall materials	0.72%	0.23%	1st of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings	14.7%	11.9%	8th of 16
Quantitative housing deficit	18,126	491,904	8th of 16
Housing deficit as share of households	14.9%	7.5%	2nd of 16
Renting households	35.2%	26.2%	1st of 16
Owner-occupiers	47.7%	61.1%	16th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.	0.2%	24.4%	16th of 16
Commute by public transport	40.0%	42.1%	4th of 16
Walks to work	13.7%	10.2%	4th of 16
Households with a computer	51.0%	54.9%	8th of 16
Average distance to any health facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	0.8	1.1	15th of 16
People within 5 km of any health facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	98.2%	97.0%	4th 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.	99.5%	99.9%	11th 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.	99.9%	100.0%	11th of 16
People within 5 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	97.8%	89.4%	1st of 16
People within 15 km of a facility with an emergency service · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	98.9%	98.1%	4th 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.	99.5%	99.7%	9th of 16
Average distance to a second- or third-level facility · Population-weighted average of the straight-line distance from each of the 244,754 blocks and rural entities of the 2024 census to the nearest facility standing in September 2026. It is a floor: nobody travels in a straight line.	3.1	5.9	14th of 16
People within 5 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	94.1%	80.3%	4th of 16
People within 15 km of a second- or third-level facility · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in September 2026.	95.3%	90.0%	4th 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.	96.8%	96.2%	5th 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.	0.5	0.6	15th of 16
People within 5 km of a school in operation · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	98.6%	99.0%	8th 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.	99.6%	99.9%	12th 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%	12th 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.	96.7%	91.6%	3rd of 16
People within 15 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 15 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.	97.4%	98.5%	9th 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.	99.0%	99.8%	12th of 16

How people commute

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

Housing tenure

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

Home heating fuel

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

How it voted in 2025

TRICEL · qualified result

80.2%

of the registered voted in the first round

79.7%

voted in the runoff

266,119

registered voters on the roll

8.2%

of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman37.9%41.7%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist62.1%58.3%

TarapacáChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez31.1%19.8%

Jeannette Jara Roman22.0%26.7%

Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.1%1.2%

Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen14.6%13.9%

Jose Antonio Kast Rist22.6%24.0%

Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.5%0.7%

Evelyn Matthei Fornet6.9%12.4%

Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.1%1.3%

TarapacáChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.9%30.6%

KCambio por Chile21.6%23.0%

JChile Grande y Unido23.8%21.1%

IPartido de la Gente13.5%12.0%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas8.2%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 pact—0.7%

TarapacáChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile32.1%

KCambio por Chile33.1%

JChile Grande y Unido14.0%

IPartido de la Gente15.1%

BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas2.6%

DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista3.0%

Tarapacáshare of the valid vote

Territories within

2

Province	Census population	Foreign-born share	Average years of schooling	Income poverty
Iquique	341,673	22.9%	10.2 yrs	21.0%
Del Tamarugal	28,133	23.6%	8.9 yrs	22.5%
Tarapacá	369,806	23.0%	10.1 yrs	20.8%

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 Tarapacá

Dependent workers, projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

What Tarapacá is specialised in

Most over-represented in Tarapacá

The land and who works it

Foreign trade

Month by month

What Tarapacá 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