Chile

South AmericaCapital city: SantiagoCapital metro: ValparaísoMost important metro: SantiagoPresident: José Antonio Kast
2026 population
20.2M
Rank #65 globally
Area
756k km² (292k sq mi)
Metros tracked
21
88% of population in metros
Composite score
44.3
Rank #48 globally

population: Natl annual projection (30 Jun 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 21 metros tracked

🗺️ Geography21 metros

Chile metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.

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21 polygons

Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.

🏙️ 21 tracked metros
21 metros
🗂️ Regions

16 entries listed under Chile. Click any to see its metros and footprint.

16 total
📋 At a glance
Official language
Spanish
Government
Democratic republic
Legislature
National Congress of Chile
Demonym
Chilean
Time zones
UTC−03:00, UTC−04:00, UTC−06:00
Driving side
Right
Calling code
+56
Internet TLD
.cl
ISO 3166
CL
Established
1810
Highest point
Ojos del Salado (6,893 m (22,615 ft))
National anthem
National Anthem of Chile

Facts via Wikidata.

💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Human Dev. Index
#44 / 191
0.878
UNDP · 2023
GDP
#44 / 193
$357.4B
World Bank · 2025
GDP per capita
#63 / 193
$18.0k
World Bank · 2025
GDP/capita (PPP)
#57 / 190
$37.8k
World Bank · 2025
GNI/capita (Atlas)
#61 / 192
$17.0k
World Bank · 2025
Life expectancy
#36 / 194
81.4 yrs
World Bank · 2024
Median age
36.0 yrs
UN WPP · 2023
Urban population
#20 / 194
89%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. growth
0.5%
World Bank · 2025
Pop. density
#156 / 193
26/km²
World Bank · 2023
Foreign-born
#73 / 193
7.8%
World Bank · 2024
Rule of law
#22 / 175
0.95
V-Dem · 2025
Gini index
#139 / 166
43.0
World Bank · 2024
Internet users
#24 / 193
96%
World Bank · 2024
Inflation
#129 / 185
4.2%
World Bank · 2025
CO₂ per capita
#124 / 192
4.0 t
Global Carbon Budget · 2024
Renewable electricity
#50 / 186
66%
Ember · 2025

Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.

Alliances & Organisations5 full memberships

Political & Economic

Regional

Trade

Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer

🏛️ Leadership History37 leaders · click to expand

marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.

Return to Democracy

José Antonio Kast✦ Current

2026Present

President

Tenure: 2026–presentRepublican Party

Gabriel Boric

20222026

President

Tenure: 2022–2026Social Convergence

Sebastián Piñera

20182022

President

Tenure: 2018–2022National Renewal

Michelle Bachelet

20142018

President

Tenure: 2014–2018Socialist

Sebastián Piñera

20102014

President

Tenure: 2010–2014National Renewal

Michelle Bachelet

20062010

President

Tenure: 2006–2010Socialist

Ricardo Lagos

20002006

President

Tenure: 2000–2006Party for Democracy

Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle

19942000

President

Tenure: 1994–2000Christian Democratic

Patricio Aylwin

19901994

President

Tenure: 1990–1994Christian Democratic

Military Dictatorship

⚠️ Augusto Pinochet

19731990

President

Tenure: 1973–1990Military (non-partisan)

Presidential Republic

Salvador Allende

19701973

President

Tenure: 1970–1973Socialist

Eduardo Frei Montalva

19641970

President

Tenure: 1964–1970Christian Democratic

Republic of Chile

Jorge Alessandri

19581964

President

Tenure: 6y 10m 2dbackbone

Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

19521958

President

Tenure: 6y 0dbackbone

Gabriel González Videla

19461952

President

Tenure: 6y 0dbackbone

Juan Antonio Ríos

19421946

President

Tenure: 4y 0dbackbone

Pedro Aguirre Cerda

19381942

President

Tenure: 4y 0dbackbone

Arturo Alessandri

19321938

President

Tenure: 6y 0dbackbone

Carlos Ibáñez del Campo

19271932

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Emiliano Figueroa

19251927

President

Tenure: 2y 0dbackbone

Arturo Alessandri

19201925

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Juan Luis Sanfuentes

19151920

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Ramón Barros Luco

19101915

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Pedro Montt

19061910

President

Tenure: 4y 0dbackbone
Show all 25 leaders

Germán Riesco

19011906

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Federico Errázuriz Echaurren

18961901

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Jorge Montt

18911896

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

José Manuel Balmaceda

18861891

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Domingo Santa María

18811886

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Aníbal Pinto

18761881

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

Federico Errázuriz Zañartu

18711876

President

Tenure: 5y 0dbackbone

José Joaquín Pérez

18611871

President

Tenure: 10y 0dbackbone

Manuel Montt

18511861

President

Tenure: 10y 0dbackbone

Manuel Bulnes

18411851

President

Tenure: 10y 0dbackbone

José Joaquín Prieto

18311841

President

Tenure: 10y 0dbackbone

Ramón Freire

18231831

Supreme Director

Tenure: 8y 0dbackbone

Bernardo O'Higgins

18171823

Supreme Director

Tenure: 6y 0dbackbone
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
Today
Minor#45 · 0.4%
3%5%8%10%190019502000
Power (headline share)Latent (material mass)Recognised (standing)
Chile · share of world power, 1839–2026

The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.

⚔️ Conflicts since 19457 interstate wars · click to expand
Combat deaths:
Combat deaths:
Combat deaths:
Spanish Empire Spain,Mapuche allies
Combat deaths:

Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”

👥 Population over time
Population 2023
19.7m
#65 in the world
Since 1800
25×
from 771k
Peak
2023
at its largest now
Share of world
0.24%
0.08% in 1800
5.0m10.0m15.0m19.9m18001850190019502000
Chile · people, 1800–2023 · dashed to 2026 is projected

Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.

👥 To 2100

The UN’s probabilistic projection for Chile: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.

Peak on the median
2041
20.5m on the UN median
2050
20.3m
95% band 17.2m to 24.3m
2100
13.4m
95% band 5.6m to 29.5m
2100 against 2025
0.68×
median falling from 2042
Deaths outnumber births
from 2036
on the UN medium path; migration decides the rest
7.7m15.5m23.2m30.9m1950197520002025205020752100

Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.

estimateUN median80% and 95% bandshigh and low fertilityzero migration

What drives it

Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.

1950
249k born · 99k died · -25k net migration
TFR 4.84 · life expectancy 53.2 · median age 19.4
1960
288k born · 89k died · -27k net migration
TFR 4.70 · life expectancy 57.2 · median age 19.3
1970
283k born · 83k died · -36k net migration
TFR 3.78 · life expectancy 62.6 · median age 19.7
1980
267k born · 69k died · -28k net migration
TFR 2.74 · life expectancy 69.5 · median age 22.0
1990
297k born · 71k died · -1k net migration
TFR 2.58 · life expectancy 73.7 · median age 24.8
2000
253k born · 78k died · +7k net migration
TFR 2.05 · life expectancy 77.1 · median age 28.0
2010
244k born · 99k died · +26k net migration
TFR 1.84 · life expectancy 79.1 · median age 31.7
2020
196k born · 143k died · +26k net migration
TFR 1.31 · life expectancy 79.3 · median age 34.7
Show all 16 decades
2030
166k born · 145k died · +40k net migration
TFR 1.13 · life expectancy 82.4 · median age 39.5
2040
156k born · 177k died · +25k net migration
TFR 1.19 · life expectancy 84.1 · median age 44.5
2050
144k born · 210k died · +19k net migration
TFR 1.24 · life expectancy 85.5 · median age 48.9
2060
121k born · 236k died · +11k net migration
TFR 1.29 · life expectancy 86.8 · median age 52.2
2070
109k born · 256k died · +6k net migration
TFR 1.33 · life expectancy 88.0 · median age 55.3
2080
102k born · 271k died · +5k net migration
TFR 1.36 · life expectancy 89.1 · median age 57.4
2090
91k born · 264k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.38 · life expectancy 90.2 · median age 57.5
2100
80k born · 236k died · +2k net migration
TFR 1.41 · life expectancy 91.3 · median age 57.4

Every country to 2100 →

Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.

💰 Billionaires6 · $69.4B combined · click to expand
Metals & MiningMining
Finance & InvestmentsFinance
Metals & MiningFertilizer
Finance & Investmentsbanking
DiversifiedForestry, mining
DiversifiedForestry, mining

Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.

🏆 National Teams

Chile on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.

National Teams Champions

Every major championship won by Chile's national teams, newest first. 2 in total.

2016· 2016-06-26
2015· 2015-07-04