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Región de ValparaísoRegión de Valparaíso

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Census population
1,896,053
2nd of 16
Population density
116.8/km²
2nd of 16
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
3rd of 16
Foreign-born share
5.3%
8th of 16

Where it stands out

Indicators with the most extreme rank among territories at its level.
Ageing index1st of 16 · Chile 79.098.6
Households with children16th of 16 · Chile 33.2%30.9%
Disability among 65+1st of 16 · Chile 43.0%46.2%
Average age2nd of 16 · Chile 38.1 yrs39.5 yrs
Under 1515th of 16 · Chile 17.7%16.8%
65 and over2nd of 16 · Chile 14.0%16.6%
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Population density by commune
Trend 2005–2024

Average monthly pay

01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.6 UF
01020304020052015202432.0 UF26.6 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 · 22,842 surveyed
Lives in the commune where they were born
54.7%
14th of 16
Came from another commune of the same region
19.5%
4th of 16
Came from another region
20.6%
7th of 16
Net internal migration
+125,016
+6.2 per 100 residents
Valparaíso1,791,509 peopleMetropolitana210,979 peopleBiobío37,801 peopleCoquimbo28,987 peopleO'Higgins21,087 peopleAntofagasta18,179 peopleAraucanía17,949 peopleMaule15,906 peopleLos Lagos13,660 peopleÑuble10,663 peopleTarapacá9,317 peopleLos Ríos9,177 peopleMagallanes8,515 peopleAtacama7,935 peopleArica y Parinacota4,917 peopleabroad104,951 peopleMetropolitana177,645 peopleBiobío15,008 peopleCoquimbo14,835 peopleAntofagasta12,449 peopleO'Higgins12,206 peopleTarapacá10,776 peopleLos Lagos9,277 peopleMaule8,039 peopleAraucanía7,211 peopleAtacama6,257 peopleMagallanes5,935 peopleLos Ríos3,830 peopleArica y Parinacota3,572 peopleÑuble2,908 peopleAysén1,658 peopleValparaíso2,019,926 people
Valparaíso1,791,509 peopleMetropolitana210,979 peopleBiobío37,801 peopleCoquimbo28,987 peopleO'Higgins21,087 peopleAntofagasta18,179 peopleAraucanía17,949 peopleMaule15,906 peopleLos Lagos13,660 peopleÑuble10,663 peopleTarapacá9,317 peopleLos Ríos9,177 peopleMagallanes8,515 peopleAtacama7,935 peopleArica y Parinac…4,917 peopleabroad104,951 peopleMetropolitana177,645 peopleBiobío15,008 peopleCoquimbo14,835 peopleAntofagasta12,449 peopleO'Higgins12,206 peopleTarapacá10,776 peopleLos Lagos9,277 peopleMaule8,039 peopleAraucanía7,211 peopleAtacama6,257 peopleMagallanes5,935 peopleLos Ríos3,830 peopleArica y Parinac…3,572 peopleÑuble2,908 peopleAysén1,658 peopleValparaíso2,019,926 people
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Chile lengthwise, north on the left. Valparaíso 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
Valparaíso 40%Marga Marga 20%Quillota 11%San Antonio 9.8%San Felipe de Aconca… 8.4%Los Andes 5.9%Petorca 4.5%Viña del Mar18%Valparaíso15%Concón2.5%Quintero1.9%Casablanca1.6%Puchunca…1.2%Quilpué8.6%Villa Alemana7.4%Limache3.0%Olmué1.0%Quillota5.1%Calera2.7%La Cruz1.3%Nogal…1.2%Hijue…1.0%San Antonio5.1%Cartagena1.3%El Quisco1.0%El Tabo0.9%Algarrobo0.8%SantoDomingoSan Felipe4.2%Llaill…1.3%Putaendo0.9%SantaMaríaCatemu0.7%Panque…0.4%Los Andes3.3%SanEsteban1.1%CalleLargaRinconadaLa Ligua2.1%Cabildo1.1%Pet…ZapallarPapudo
Valparaíso 40%Marga Marga 20%Quillota 11%San … 9.8%Los A… 5.9%Peto… 4.5%Viña del Mar18%Valparaíso15%Concón2.5%Qui…Casabl…1.6%Puchun…Quilpué8.6%Villa Alemana7.4%LimacheOlm…Quillota5.1%Cale…SanAntonio5.1%Cart…El…El…SanFelipe4.2%Llai…Puta…San…Cat…LosAndes3.3%San…LaLiguaCab…
Isla de Pascuahover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

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Employment survey

ENE · INE · 2010–2026
Unemployment+1.8 pts on a year ago10.4%0510152014.4% · Jul–Sep 2020Employment rate−0.1 pts on a year ago54.0%404550556041.7% · Jun–Aug 2020Participation+1.0 pts on a year ago60.2%455055606548.6% · Jun–Aug 2020201020122014201620182020202220242026
Unemployment+1.8 pts on a year ago10.4%0510152014.4% · Jul–Sep 2020Employment rate−0.1 pts on a year ago54.0%404550556041.7% · Jun–Aug 2020Participation+1.0 pts on a year ago60.2%455055606548.6% · Jun–Aug 20202012201620202024

Formal employment, 2005–2024

2005–2024 · Source SII
200520243Retail and wholesale1Retail and wholesale▲22Construction2Construction8Administrative services3Administrative services▲57Public administration4Public administration▲35Transport5Transport4Manufacturing6Manufacturing▼29Health7Health▲26Education8Education▼21Agriculture and fishing9Agriculture and fishing▼810Accommodation and food10Accommodation and food11Other services11Other services12Professional services12Professional services
2005202431Retail and wholesale▲222Construction83Administrative services▲574Public administration▲355Transport46Manufacturing▼297Health▲268Education▼219Agriculture and fishing▼81010Accommodation and food1111Other services1212Professional services

The ten branches that employ most of Valparaíso

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
01Retail and wholesaleTrade and logistics77,61311.5%+51%02ConstructionIndustry and construction68,19610.1%+29%03Administrative servicesAdvanced services64,5359.5%+169%04Public administrationState and social services63,6759.4%+82%05TransportTrade and logistics59,7168.8%+46%06ManufacturingIndustry and construction54,4328.1%+28%07HealthState and social services54,1488.0%+216%08EducationState and social services53,4707.9%+51%09Agriculture and fishingNatural resources48,4877.2%−41%10Accommodation and foodTrade and logistics43,9876.5%+215%

Dependent workers, projected

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

300 k500 k700 k900 kprojection →737 k2029 · central2005201520242029
300 k500 k700 k900 kprojection →737 k2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval2.2% a year observed · 1.8% projected

Annual sales in UF, projected

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

0500 M1,000 M1,500 M2,000 Mprojection →1,634 M2029 · central2005201520242029
0500 M1,000 M1,500 M2,000 Mprojection →1,634 M2029 · central2005201520242029
observed 2005–2024central projection80% interval3.7% a year observed · 1.7% projected

What Valparaíso is specialised in

2024 · SII

Of the 672 activities the tax register files firms under, Valparaíso employs more people in 171 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.

171
activities it is specialised in
674,894
formal workers
4/16
by the complexity of what it is specialised in
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.43.7Consejo de administración de edif…Recogida de desechos no peligrososVenta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Agencias de aduanasFabricación de maletas, bolsos y …Agencias de navesElaboración de cigarros y cigarri…Pesca marítima industrial, except…HipódromosHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity
0%20%40%60%-2.5-0.43.7Venta al por mayor de frutas y ve…Agencias de aduanasCría de aves de corral para la pr…Agencias de navesHow much of what surrounds the activity is already hereComplexity of the activity

Most over-represented in Valparaíso

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
Elaboración de cigarros y cigarrillosElaboración de productos de tabaco62114.1×
Cultivos de semillas de flores; cultivo de semillas de plantas forrajerasCultivo de plantas no perennes52613.2×
Fabricación de productos de la refinación del petróleoFabricación de productos de la refinación del petróleo1,69812.3×
Construcción de buques, embarcaciones menores y estructuras flotantesConstrucción de buques y otras embarcaciones3,6689.9×
Cultivo de frutas tropicales y subtropicales (incluye el cultivo de paltas)Cultivo de plantas perennes1,6649.8×
Agencias de navesActividades de apoyo al transporte7179.3×
Actividades de mantenimiento del orden público y de seguridadPrestación de servicios a la comunidad en general1,6288.7×
Actividades de servicios vinculadas al transporte acuáticoActividades de apoyo al transporte8,0286.7×
Fabricación de maletas, bolsos y artículos similares, artículos de talabartería y guarnicioneríaCurtido y adobo de cueros; fabricación productos de cuero; adobo y teñido de pieles1,5335.8×
Cría de aves de corral para la producción de carneGanadería1,5625.6×
Manipulación de la cargaActividades de apoyo al transporte5,8845.6×
Agencias de aduanasActividades de apoyo al transporte2,9505.3×

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
645,113
hectares in holdings
70.9%
of them under a named use
88.8%
of the crop land is irrigated
7,358
holdings with land here
Not farmed 39%Woodland 30%Pasture 20%Orchards and vineyards 8.3%Scrub, barren ground and buildings29%Untilled land10%Native woodland26%Forest plantationsPasture20%Fruit trees7.0%Foddercrops1.1%Vegeta…Cer…
Not farmed 39%Woodland 30%Pasture 20%Orcha… 8.3%Scrub, barren groundand buildings29%Untilled land10%Native woodland26%Forest plantationsPasture20%Fruit trees7.0%
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 Valparaíso, 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$ 6,267 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +18% vs January–July 2025
7.9%
of everything Chile exported
US$ 29,916 M
cleared in Los Andes, Valparaíso and San Antonio · −0.9% vs January–July 2025
58%
of Chile's imports, cleared here

Month by month

02,0004,0006,000US$ MJan2025FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovs/dDecJan2026FebMarAprMayJunJuls/dAug
02,0004,0006,000US$ MJ2025FMAMJJASON·DJ2026FMAMJJ·A
Exports from ValparaísoImports cleared in its officesshaded: the months the figures above are read over

What Valparaíso exports

Mineral products 53%Base metals 20%Vegetable products 14%Special tr… 5.1%Food, be… 2.4%Copper ores and concentrates50%Moly…oresand…Slag,ashand…Prec…metalores…Petr…oils…Copper; refined andcopper alloys,unwrought20%Grapes; freshor dried6.5%Apricots,cherries,peaches…2.0%Dates,figs,pineappl…1.6%Citrusfruit;fresh o…Fruit,fresh;…Apples,pearsand…Nuts(exc…coco…Seed…frui…Plant…Fru…Combustibles,lubricantes,aparejos y…4.3%Cigars,cheroo…Wine o…Mollu…wheth…in…Motorvehicles;…Chemic…wood…Self…Plas…
Mineral products 53%Base metals 20%Vegetable… 14%Speci… 5.1%Copper ores and concentrates50%Copper; refinedand copperalloys, unwrought20%Grapes; freshor dried6.5%Aprico…cherri…peache…Dates,figs,…Cit…fru…Combusti…lubrican…Cig…Win…
Transport equipmentOther sectionsPearls, stones and precious metalsMiscellaneous manufactureshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it

What leaves, through which office, to where

ChapterCustoms officeDestination26 Ores, slag and ashUS$ 3,318 million · 53%74 Copper and articles there…US$ 1,270 million · 20%08 Fruit and nuts, edible; p…US$ 831 million · 13%00 Tratamientos arancelarios…US$ 318 million · 5.1%03 Fish and crustaceans, mol…US$ 70.2 million · 1.1%87 Vehicles; other than rail…US$ 51.5 million · 0.8%Other chaptersUS$ 407 million · 6.5%CoquimboUS$ 122 million · 1.9%ValparaísoUS$ 3,658 million · 58%San AntonioUS$ 1,998 million · 32%MetropolitanaUS$ 315 million · 5.0%Los AndesUS$ 119 million · 1.9%Other officesUS$ 53.4 million · 0.9%ChinaUS$ 2,736 million · 44%JapanUS$ 477 million · 7.6%South KoreaUS$ 222 million · 3.5%United StatesUS$ 698 million · 11%SpainUS$ 142 million · 2.3%BrazilUS$ 619 million · 9.9%Stores for foreign sh…US$ 252 million · 4.0%OthersUS$ 1,121 million · 18%
ChapterCustoms officeDestination26 Ores, s…53%74 Copper …20%08 Fruit a…13%00 Tratami…5.1%03 Fish an…1.1%87 Vehicle…0.8%Other chap…6.5%Coqui…1.9%Valpa…58%San A…32%Metro…5.0%Los A…1.9%Other…0.9%China44%Japan7.6%South Korea3.5%United Sta…11%Spain2.3%Brazil9.9%Stores for…4.0%Others18%

Where its exports go

  1. ChinaUS$ 2,736 million44%
  2. United StatesUS$ 698 million11%
  3. BrazilUS$ 619 million9.9%
  4. JapanUS$ 477 million7.6%
  5. Stores for foreign ships and aircraftUS$ 252 million4.0%
  6. South KoreaUS$ 222 million3.5%
  7. SpainUS$ 142 million2.3%
  8. IndiaUS$ 133 million2.1%
  9. ItalyUS$ 94.7 million1.5%
  10. NetherlandsUS$ 88.3 million1.4%
  11. MexicoUS$ 85.9 million1.4%
  12. ArgentinaUS$ 71.7 million1.1%
  13. OthersUS$ 648 million10%

Where what is cleared here comes from

  1. ChinaUS$ 9,375 million31%
  2. United StatesUS$ 4,283 million14%
  3. BrazilUS$ 3,276 million11%
  4. ArgentinaUS$ 2,045 million6.8%
  5. GermanyUS$ 965 million3.2%
  6. SpainUS$ 770 million2.6%
  7. JapanUS$ 663 million2.2%
  8. ItalyUS$ 619 million2.1%
  9. MexicoUS$ 586 million2.0%
  10. ParaguayUS$ 566 million1.9%
  11. OthersUS$ 6,770 million23%

Through which office

Customs officeRegion of its seatExports%Imports%
San AntonioValparaísoUS$ 1,998 million32%US$ 18,039 million60%
ValparaísoValparaísoUS$ 3,658 million58%US$ 7,654 million26%
Los AndesValparaísoUS$ 119 million1.9%US$ 4,223 million14%
MetropolitanaMetropolitanaUS$ 315 million5.0%——
CoquimboCoquimboUS$ 122 million1.9%——
TalcahuanoBiobíoUS$ 35.2 million0.6%——
Punta ArenasMagallanesUS$ 7.4 million0.1%——
AricaArica y ParinacotaUS$ 6.3 million0.1%——
AntofagastaAntofagastaUS$ 1.8 million<0.1%——
AraucaníaAraucaníaUS$ 1.4 million<0.1%——
ChañaralAtacamaUS$ 498 thousand<0.1%——
IquiqueTarapacáUS$ 400 thousand<0.1%——
Puerto MonttLos LagosUS$ 287 thousand<0.1%——
OsornoLos LagosUS$ 135 thousand<0.1%——
TocopillaAntofagastaUS$ 13 thousand<0.1%——

Its ports and crossings

Port or crossingComunaLoaded (exports)%Unloaded (imports)%
San AntonioSan AntonioUS$ 8,739 million49%US$ 18,064 million61%
ValparaísoValparaísoUS$ 4,881 million28%US$ 4,088 million14%
Los LibertadoresLos AndesUS$ 1,066 million6.0%US$ 4,129 million14%
QuinteroQuinteroUS$ 91.7 million0.5%US$ 3,314 million11%
VentanasPuchuncavíUS$ 2,881 million16%US$ 251 million0.8%

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

  1. Motor cars and other motor vehicles; principally designed for the transport of…US$ 2,203 million7.4%
  2. Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparations n.e.c…US$ 1,968 million6.6%
  3. Vehicles; for the transport of goodsUS$ 1,313 million4.4%
  4. Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilledUS$ 796 million2.7%
  5. Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crudeUS$ 771 million2.6%
  6. Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbonsUS$ 580 million1.9%
  7. Medicaments; (not goods of heading no. 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed…US$ 396 million1.3%
  8. Bulldozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, angledozers, mechanical shovels, exca…US$ 362 million1.2%
  9. Maize (corn)US$ 300 million1.0%
  10. Automatic data processing machines and units thereof, magnetic or optical reade…US$ 295 million1.0%
  11. Tractors; (other than tractors of heading no 8709)US$ 260 million0.9%
  12. Polymers of ethylene, in primary formsUS$ 255 million0.9%
  13. Motor vehicles; parts and accessories, of heading no. 8701 to 8705US$ 244 million0.8%
  14. New pneumatic tyres, of rubberUS$ 242 million0.8%
  15. Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products, pl…US$ 232 million0.8%
  16. Other headingsUS$ 19,700 million66%

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
ValparaísoChile% of each territory's own population · 1,896,053 people counted herehover a cohort for its countsCenso de Población y Vivienda 2024, INE (cuadro D1)
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Census population
1,896,053
18,480,4322nd of 16
Average age
39.5 yrs
38.1 yrs2nd of 16
Ageing index · People aged 65 or over per 100 under 15.
98.6
79.01st of 16
Population density · Inhabitants per square kilometre, over the area of the census cartography.
116.8/km²
24.7/km²2nd of 16
See the other 13 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Households
701,072
6,596,5272nd of 16
Dwellings
914,075
7,642,7162nd of 16
People per household
2.70
2.8011th of 16
Women
51.8%
51.5%4th of 16
Men per 100 women
93.0
94.313th of 16
Under 15
16.8%
17.7%15th of 16
65 and over
16.6%
14.0%2nd of 16
Dependency ratio · Population outside working age per 100 of working age.
50.1
46.53rd of 16
One-person households
23.0%
21.8%4th of 16
Households with children
30.9%
33.2%16th of 16
Indigenous peoples
5.5%
11.4%13th of 16
Female-headed households
51.5%
49.9%2nd of 16
Land area
16,234 km²
748,041 km²14th of 16

Migration

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When the migrant population arrived

Valparaíso37%Arrived since 202063%Arrived before 2020Chile34%Arrived since 202066%Arrived before 2020
Valparaíso37%Arrived since 202063%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
5.3%
8.7%8th 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.
54.7%
50.5%14th 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.
19.5%
23.9%4th of 16
Came from another region · Of those who live here, the ones born in a comuna of another region.
20.6%
17.2%7th of 16
See the other 9 indicators
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Foreign-born population
100,655
1,608,6503rd of 16
Average age, foreign-born
33.1 yrs
33.5 yrs8th of 16
Women among foreign-born
50.6%
51.7%12th of 16
Foreign-born of working age
81.3%
83.1%11th of 16
Arrived since 2020 · Share of the migrant population that arrived in the country in 2020 or later.
37.1%
34.4%8th 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.
6.5%
10.6%8th of 16
Average schooling, foreign-born
13.0 yrs
12.9 yrs7th 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.
125,016
02nd of 16
Net internal migration per 100 residents · The balance above, over the population living in the territory.
6.2
0.04th of 16

Education

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How far schooling went

Valparaíso33%Higher38%Secondary22%Primary only4.8%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only5.0%
Valparaíso33%Higher38%Secondary22%Chile31%Higher37%Secondary24%Primary only
HigherSecondaryPrimary onlyNever attendedOther or unclassified% of people aged 25 and over
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Average years of schooling
10.6 yrs
10.4 yrs3rd of 16
Reached higher education
33.0%
31.1%2nd of 16
School attendance, ages 6-17
98.6%
98.6%12th 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.
59.7%
55.6%4th 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.
99.6%
99.8%13th of 16
Literacy rate
98.3%
97.8%6th of 16
Reached secondary education
37.9%
36.7%7th of 16
Primary education only
21.7%
24.1%13th of 16
Never attended school
2.56%
3.01%15th 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.
12.4 yrs
12.1 yrs4th of 16
Average years of schooling, women · Same weight and same caveat as the figure for men.
12.3 yrs
12.1 yrs4th of 16
Illiteracy · People aged 15 or over who say they cannot read or write.
1.67%
2.18%11th of 16
Households lacking schooling
12.4%
15.1%13th 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.
21,739
217,5652nd of 16
Leaves from technical-vocational school · Commercial, industrial, technical, agricultural and maritime tracks.
27.7%
33.9%15th 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.
0.5%
3.1%14th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a university · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
71.0%
67.2%2nd of 16
Of those continuing, enters a professional institute · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
20.5%
19.7%4th of 16
Of those continuing, enters a technical training centre · The three destinations split the same total and add up to 100.
8.5%
13.1%15th 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.
10.1%
13.0%14th of 16
Of those continuing, women · The graduates module does not publish sex, so there is no continuation rate by sex: only the make-up of those who do continue.
50.6%
49.7%5th 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.

21,739left secondary school in 2024
12,982enrolled in a first-year programme in 2025
59.7%continued immediately
71%of those, to a university
10%of those, outside their region

The ten programmes they enrolled in most

0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en InformaticaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaTecnologia Medica
0.0%2.0%4.0%6.0%DerechoPsicologiaIngenieria ComercialIngenieria Civil IndustrialIngenieria en InformaticaKinesiologiaEnfermeriaMedicina VeterinariaArquitecturaTecnologia Medica
ValparaísoChile

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%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
0.0%10.0%20.0%30.0%Engineering and industryHealth and welfareBusiness and lawServicesEducationInformation technologyArts and humanitiesSocial sciencesAgriculture and veterinaryNatural sciences
ValparaísoChile

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

010,00020,00030,00020062015202421,73912,982
010,00020,00030,00020062015202421,73912,982
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 Valparaíso'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 Valparaíso 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

Valparaíso85%Fonasa8.6%IsapreChile83%Fonasa13%Isapre
Valparaíso85%FonasaChile83%Fonasa
FonasaIsapreNo coverOther system or undeclared% of the population counted
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Disability prevalence
11.1%
10.6%7th of 16
Public health insurance
85.5%
82.6%12th of 16
Hospital discharges per 1,000 residents · Not age-adjusted. It mixes how much illness there is with how much hospital there is nearby.
81.6
82.59th of 15
In-hospital mortality, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
97
10010th of 15
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
People with a disability
210,218
1,950,3882nd of 16
Average age, people with a disability
57.7 yrs
56.4 yrs4th of 16
Disability among 65+
46.2%
43.0%1st of 16
Difficulty walking
5.35%
4.92%7th of 16
Difficulty seeing
4.56%
4.58%10th of 16
Difficulty hearing
2.24%
2.16%8th of 16
Difficulty concentrating
2.89%
2.70%6th of 16
Private health insurance
8.6%
13.2%6th of 16
No health coverage
2.16%
1.98%10th of 16
Sought care when ill · Of those who had an illness or accident in the last three months.
91.2%
92.1%12th of 16
Households lacking health access
6.3%
6.0%6th of 16
Hospital discharges · Episodes, not people: someone hospitalised three times counts three times.
154,624
1,523,7163rd of 15
Deaths during a hospital stay · Only those that happen in hospital; the rest do not go through this register.
4,163
36,6982nd of 15
In-hospital case fatality · Of every 100 hospital stays, how many end in death.
2.69%
2.41%6th of 15
Average length of stay · Bed-days over discharges, averaged after adding up.
6.8 days
6.1 days2nd of 15
In-hospital deaths per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted, and therefore high where the population is older.
22.0
19.94th of 15
Hospitalisation, standardised ratio · Chile = 100, adjusting for this comuna's age and sex.
96
10010th of 15
Cancer hospitalisations · Discharges with a malignant tumour (C00-C97) as the main diagnosis. Episodes, not people.
10,687
89,7232nd of 16
Share of hospitalisations that are for cancer · Of every 100 discharges in the comuna, how many are for a malignant tumour.
6.9%
5.9%3rd of 16
Cancer hospitalisations per 10,000 residents · Not age-adjusted: above all it compares how old the comuna is.
56.4
48.64th 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.
108
1006th of 16

What people are hospitalised for

Digestive and urinary tract 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries, bones an… 18%Tumours, blood… 15%Pregnancy, birth … 13%Mind, nerves a… 6.0%Infections and… 5.7%Digestivesystem14%Genitourin…system9.3%Circulatorysystem10%Respiratorysystem9.4%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculoskeletal6.1%SkinCancers andtumours10.0%Endocrine andmetabolic3.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mentalandbehavio…Nervo…system1.9%Conta…withhealt…Infec…andparas…Ill-…symp…
Digestive and urinary … 23%Heart and lungs 19%Injuries,… 18%Tumours, blood and … 15%Pregnancy, birth an… 13%Digestivesystem14%Genitou…system9.3%Circulat…system10%Respirat…system9.4%Injuries andpoisoning10%Musculosk…6.1%Cancers andtumours10.0%Endoc…andmetab…3.8%Pregnancy andchildbirth11%Mentaland…Nervo…systemCon…withhea…Inf…andpar…
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 digestivos27%Sangre y sistema linfático22%Mama11%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Víasurinarias5.8%Genitalesmasculinos5.1%Víasrespirator…5.0%Tiroides yendocrinas4.9%Sitios maldefinidos3.1%Encéfalo ysistema…Piel ymelan…1.7%Boca yfarin…1.5%Tejidosblandos1.2%Huesos1.1%
Órganos digestivos27%Sangre y sistemalinfático22%Mama11%Genitalesfemeninos8.7%Víasurinari…5.8%Genital…masculi…5.1%Víasrespirat…5.0%Tiroidesyendocrin…4.9%Sitiosmaldefinid…Encéfalo…Pielymela…Bocayfar…Teji…blan…Hues…
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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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Income poverty · People in households whose income does not cover the poverty line.
17.8%
17.3%11th of 16
Average monthly pay · Reported net pay in UF divided by workers weighted by months worked.
26.6 UF
32.0 UF4th of 16
Women's pay as share of men's · 100 means parity; below 100, women earn less per full-time-equivalent job.
85.9%
78.9%12th 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.
81.0
85.68th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Employment rate · Employed people over the population aged 15 or over.
52.2%
54.4%10th of 16
Census unemployment · Measured by the Census, not by Casen: the two ask differently.
8.7%
8.6%9th of 16
Self-employed
36.0%
33.8%5th of 16
Extreme poverty
6.8%
6.9%12th of 16
Multidimensional poverty · Households with deprivations in education, health, work, housing or networks.
15.9%
17.7%10th of 16
Unemployment rate
9.4%
8.8%5th of 16
Household income per capita · Chilean pesos per month, corrected total income.
CLP 676,485
CLP 783,1247th 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.
0.465
0.4887th of 16
Registered firms
153,561
1,582,3902nd of 16
Annual sales
1,504,507,848 UF
34,347,683,688 UF2nd 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.
675,886
9,699,1642nd of 16
Sales per firm
9,797 UF
21,706 UF6th of 16
Employees per firm · Workers weighted by months worked, so two half-year jobs are not counted as two positions.
3.0
3.94th of 16
Women among employees
39.4%
40.6%11th of 16
Independent contractors
241,072
3,958,2692nd of 16
Contractors as share of workers
26.3%
29.0%10th of 16

Employment by industry

Trade and logistics 30%State and social services 24%Industry and construction 17%Advanced serv… 12%Natural … 9.6%Other services 7.8%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.8%Accommodationand food5.4%Education9.5%Health8.9%Publicadminis…5.5%Construction8.3%Manufactur…6.7%Ele…andgasWat…andwas…Adminis…services4.0%Profess…services3.7%Infor…andcommu…Finan…andinsur…Realest…Agricultureand fishing5.4%Mining4.2%Other servicesDomestic work2.8%Artsandenter…
Trade and logistics 30%State and social… 24%Industry and… 17%Advanc… 12%Natural reso… 9.6%Other servic… 7.8%Retail andwholesale17%Transport7.8%Accommodat…and food5.4%Education9.5%Health8.9%Public administrationConstruction8.3%Manufactur…6.7%Ele…andgasWat…and…Administra…servicesProfessionalservicesInfo…andcomm…Finance…Real…Agricult…andfishing5.4%Mining4.2%Otherservic…Domes…work2.8%
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 52%Managers and professionals 34%Elementary occupations 14%Service and sales21%Craft andtrades13%Plant and machineoperators8.4%Clericalsupport6.0%Skilledagricu…3.0%Professionals18%Technicians11%Managers4.4%Elementary occupations14%
Skilled occupations 52%Managers and professionals 34%Elementa… 14%Service andsales21%Craft andtrades13%Plant andmachineoperatorsClericalsupport6.0%Skil…agri…Professionals18%Technicians11%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

Valparaíso78%House21%FlatChile79%House20%Flat
Valparaíso78%House21%Chile79%House20%
HouseFlatOther dwelling type% of private dwellings
IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Overcrowded dwellings
4.6%
5.7%13th of 16
Internet access
94.0%
93.2%6th 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.
1.8
2.313th 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.
1.3
1.614th of 16
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IndicatorValueAgainst its peersChileRank
Occupied dwellings with residents
685,235
6,408,1722nd of 16
Critically overcrowded
0.46%
0.57%5th of 16
Irrecoverable dwellings
1.36%
1.13%8th of 16
Public water network
92.8%
92.3%5th of 16
Electricity access
99.6%
99.6%6th of 16
Detached houses
78.1%
78.7%13th of 16
Apartments
20.8%
19.9%4th of 16
Precarious wall materials
0.30%
0.23%8th of 16
Unoccupied private dwellings
20.2%
11.9%2nd of 16
Quantitative housing deficit
42,497
491,9042nd of 16
Housing deficit as share of households
6.1%
7.5%7th of 16
Renting households
24.5%
26.2%6th of 16
Owner-occupiers
60.9%
61.1%11th of 16
Households heating with wood · Firewood is the main source of urban air pollution in the south.
15.0%
24.4%9th of 16
Commute by public transport
41.8%
42.1%2nd of 16
Walks to work
10.1%
10.2%13th of 16
Households with a computer
54.6%
54.9%5th 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
1.113th 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.
97.7%
97.0%5th 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%5th 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%10th 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.
93.2%
89.4%5th 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.
99.5%
98.1%2nd 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.
100.0%
99.7%2nd 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.
12.2
5.93rd 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.
81.0%
80.3%6th 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.
91.2%
90.0%6th 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.
99.2%
96.2%2nd 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
0.614th 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%3rd 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%5th 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%8th of 16
People within 5 km of a school teaching upper secondary · Lives in a census block or rural entity within 5 km of the nearest facility, as the crow flies. Population from the 2024 census; facilities as they stood in 2025.
94.4%
91.6%6th 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.
99.4%
98.5%2nd 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%3rd of 16

How people commute

Public transport 42%Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other mea… 7.6%Public transport42%Car37%Walking10%Bicy…Other7.5%
Public transport 42%Private vehicle 38%On foot or by bicycle 13%Other means 7.6%Public transport42%Car37%Walking10%Bicyc…2.7%Other7.5%
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 61%Rented 24%Provided rent-f… 10%Owned outright48%Owned, still paying12%Rented, with contract18%Rented, no contract6.0%Provided byfamily9.2%Otherarran…4.2%
Owned 61%Rented 24%Provided ren… 10%Owned outright48%Owned,stillpaying12%Rented, withcontract18%Rented,nocontra…6.0%Provided byfamily9.2%Other arrangement
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

Fossil fuels 36%No heating 28%Electricity 20%Wood and bi… 16%Gas30%Paraffin6.5%No heating28%Electricity20%Firewood15%
Fossil fuels 36%No heating 28%Electricity 20%Wood and biomass 16%Gas30%ParaffinNo heating28%Electricity20%Firewood15%
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
85.7%
of the registered voted in the first round
85.6%
voted in the runoff
1,693,743
registered voters on the roll
7.7%
of runoff ballots were null or blank

Presidential runoff · 14 December

Jeannette Jara Roman45.8%41.7%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist54.2%58.3%
ValparaísoChileshare of the valid vote

Presidential, first round · 16 November

Franco Parisi Fernandez19.5%19.8%
Jeannette Jara Roman29.5%26.7%
Marco Antonio Enriquez-Ominami Gumucio1.3%1.2%
Johannes Kaiser Barents-Von Hohenhagen15.4%13.9%
Jose Antonio Kast Rist20.3%24.0%
Eduardo Antonio Artes Brichetti0.7%0.7%
Evelyn Matthei Fornet11.9%12.4%
Harold Mayne-Nicholls Secul1.4%1.3%
ValparaísoChileshare of the valid vote

Chamber of Deputies · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile34.5%30.6%
KCambio por Chile23.5%23.0%
JChile Grande y Unido20.3%21.1%
IPartido de la Gente12.8%12.0%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas7.5%6.9%
DIzquierda Ecologista Popular Animalista y Humanista—2.6%
APartido Ecologista Verde—0.8%
EMovimiento Amarillos por Chile—0.8%
GPartido Alianza Verde Popular—0.6%
FPartido de Trabajadores Revolucionarios0.7%0.6%
HPopular0.8%0.2%
Independents outside a pact—0.7%
ValparaísoChileshare of the valid vote

Senate · 16 November

CUnidad por Chile36.0%
KCambio por Chile20.8%
JChile Grande y Unido28.0%
IPartido de la Gente11.5%
BVerdes, Regionalistas y Humanistas3.8%
Valparaísoshare of the valid vote

Territories within

8
ProvinceCensus populationForeign-born shareAverage years of schoolingIncome poverty
Valparaíso757,1765.8%11.1 yrs17.2%
Isla de Pascua4,8003.8%10.5 yrs—
Los Andes112,0045.0%10.2 yrs16.4%
Petorca85,0323.4%9.5 yrs25.2%
Quillota213,7456.4%10.0 yrs18.0%
San Antonio185,8474.8%10.1 yrs20.7%
San Felipe de Aconcagua159,3966.5%9.8 yrs18.1%
Marga Marga378,0534.0%10.9 yrs18.2%
Valparaíso1,896,0535.3%10.6 yrs17.8%