Facts and Figures:
Republic of Chile
National name: República de Chile
President: Ricardo Lagos (2000)
Area: 292,258 sq mi (756,950 sq km)
Population (2005 est.): 15,980,912
(growth rate: 1.0%); birth rate:
15.4/1000; infant mortality rate:
8.8/1000; life expectancy: 76.6;
density per sq mi: 55
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Santiago, 5,333,100 (metro. area),
4,372,800 (city proper)
Other large cities: Viña del Mar,
303,100; Valparaíso, 274,100;
Talcahuano, 252,800; Temuco,
247,200; Concepción, 217,600
Monetary unit: Chilean Peso
Language: Spanish
Ethnicity/race: white and
white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian
3%, other 2%
Religions: Roman Catholic 89%,
Protestant 11%, small Jewish and
Muslim populations
Literacy rate: 96% (2003 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $169.1 billion; per capita
$10,700. Real growth rate: 5.8%.
Inflation: 2.4%. Unemployment: 8.5%.
Arable land: 3%. Agriculture: grapes,
apples, pears, onions, wheat, corn,
oats, peaches, garlic, asparagus,
beans, beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber.
Labor force: 6.2 million; agriculture
13.6%, industry 23.4%, services 63%
(2003). Industries: copper, other
minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing,
iron and steel, wood and wood
products, transport equipment,
cement, textiles. Natural resources:
copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates,
precious metals, molybdenum,
hydropower. Exports: $29.2 billion
(f.o.b., 2004 est.): copper, fruit, fish
products, paper and pulp, chemicals,
wine. Imports: $22.53 billion (f.o.b.,
2004 est.): petroleum and petroleum
products, chemicals, electrical and
telecommunications equipment,
industrial machinery, vehicles, natural
gas. Major trading partners: U.S.,
Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico,
Italy, Argentina, Brazil (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 3.467 million (2002);
mobile cellular: 6,445,700 (2002).
Radio broadcast stations: AM 180
(eight inactive), FM 64, shortwave 17
(one inactive) (1998). Television
broadcast stations: 63 (plus 121
repeaters) (1997). Internet hosts:
202,429 (2003). Internet users: 3.575
million (2002).
Transportation: Railways: total: 6,585
km (2004). Highways: total: 79,605
km; paved: 16,080 km; unpaved:
63,525 km (2001). Waterways: 725
km. Ports and harbors: Antofagasta,
Arica, Huasco, Iquique, Lirquen, San
Antonio, San Vicente, Valparaiso.
Airports: 364 (2004 est.).
International disputes: Chile rebuffs
Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore
the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile
in 1884, offering instead unrestricted
but not sovereign maritime access
through Chile to Bolivian gas and other
commodities; Peru proposes
changing its latitudinal maritime
boundary with Chile to an equidistance
line with a southwestern axis; territorial
claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic
Territory) partially overlaps Argentine
and British claims.
Republic of Chile
National name: República de Chile
President: Ricardo Lagos (2000)
Area: 292,258 sq mi (756,950 sq km)
Population (2005 est.): 15,980,912
(growth rate: 1.0%); birth rate:
15.4/1000; infant mortality rate:
8.8/1000; life expectancy: 76.6;
density per sq mi: 55
Capital and largest city (2003 est.):
Santiago, 5,333,100 (metro. area),
4,372,800 (city proper)
Other large cities: Viña del Mar,
303,100; Valparaíso, 274,100;
Talcahuano, 252,800; Temuco,
247,200; Concepción, 217,600
Monetary unit: Chilean Peso
Language: Spanish
Ethnicity/race: white and
white-Amerindian 95%, Amerindian
3%, other 2%
Religions: Roman Catholic 89%,
Protestant 11%, small Jewish and
Muslim populations
Literacy rate: 96% (2003 est.)
Economic summary: GDP/PPP (2004
est.): $169.1 billion; per capita
$10,700. Real growth rate: 5.8%.
Inflation: 2.4%. Unemployment: 8.5%.
Arable land: 3%. Agriculture: grapes,
apples, pears, onions, wheat, corn,
oats, peaches, garlic, asparagus,
beans, beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber.
Labor force: 6.2 million; agriculture
13.6%, industry 23.4%, services 63%
(2003). Industries: copper, other
minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing,
iron and steel, wood and wood
products, transport equipment,
cement, textiles. Natural resources:
copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates,
precious metals, molybdenum,
hydropower. Exports: $29.2 billion
(f.o.b., 2004 est.): copper, fruit, fish
products, paper and pulp, chemicals,
wine. Imports: $22.53 billion (f.o.b.,
2004 est.): petroleum and petroleum
products, chemicals, electrical and
telecommunications equipment,
industrial machinery, vehicles, natural
gas. Major trading partners: U.S.,
Japan, China, South Korea, Mexico,
Italy, Argentina, Brazil (2003).
Communications: Telephones: main
lines in use: 3.467 million (2002);
mobile cellular: 6,445,700 (2002).
Radio broadcast stations: AM 180
(eight inactive), FM 64, shortwave 17
(one inactive) (1998). Television
broadcast stations: 63 (plus 121
repeaters) (1997). Internet hosts:
202,429 (2003). Internet users: 3.575
million (2002).
Transportation: Railways: total: 6,585
km (2004). Highways: total: 79,605
km; paved: 16,080 km; unpaved:
63,525 km (2001). Waterways: 725
km. Ports and harbors: Antofagasta,
Arica, Huasco, Iquique, Lirquen, San
Antonio, San Vicente, Valparaiso.
Airports: 364 (2004 est.).
International disputes: Chile rebuffs
Bolivia's reactivated claim to restore
the Atacama corridor, ceded to Chile
in 1884, offering instead unrestricted
but not sovereign maritime access
through Chile to Bolivian gas and other
commodities; Peru proposes
changing its latitudinal maritime
boundary with Chile to an equidistance
line with a southwestern axis; territorial
claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic
Territory) partially overlaps Argentine
and British claims.
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