Figures
GDP
GDP: purchasing power parity - $207.032 billion (2005 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: 6.3% (2005)
GDP: per capita purchasing power parity - $12.727 (2005 est.)
GDP - composition by sector: agriculture: 6.3% industry: 38.2% services: 55.5% (2004)
Population below poverty line: 18.8% (2003 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 1.2% highest 10%: 47% (2000)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 57.1 (2000)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 2.7% (2005 est.)
Labour force: 6.2 million (2004 est.)
Labour force - by occupation: agriculture 13.6%, industry 23.4%, services 63% (2003 est.)
Unemployment rate: 7.6% (2005)
Budget: revenues: $21.53 billion expenditures: $19.95 billion, including capital expenditures of $3.33 billion (2004 est.)
Industries: copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: 7.8% (2004 est.)
Electricity:
- production: 48.6 TWh (2004)
- consumption: 41.8 TWh (2002)
- exports: 0 TWh (2002)
- imports: 1.813 TWh (2002)
Electricity - production by source:
- fossil fuel: 47%
- hydro: 51.5%
- other: 1.4% (2001)
- nuclear: 0%
Oil:
- production: 18,500 barrel/day (2003 est.)
- consumption: 240,000 barrel/day (2003 est.)
- exports: 0 barrel/day (2003)
- imports: 221,500 barrel/day (2003 est.)
- proved reserves: 150 million barrel (1 January 2004)
Natural gas:
- production: 1.18 billion m³ (2002 est.)
- consumption: 6.517 billion m³ (2002 est.)
- exports: 0 m³ (2002)
- imports: 5.337 billion m³ (2002 est.)
- proved reserves: 99.05 billion m³ (1 January 2004)
- Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, grapes, beans, sugar beets, potatoes, fruit; beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber
Exports: $39.5 billion f.o.b. (2005)
Exports - commodities: copper, fish, fruits, paper and pulp, chemicals, wine
Exports - partners: U.S. 14%, Japan 11.4%, China 9.9%, South Korea 5.5%, Netherlands 5.1%, Brazil 4.3%, Italy 4.1%, Mexico 4% (2004)
Imports: $30.30 billion f.o.b. (2005)
Imports - commodities: consumer goods, chemicals, motor vehicles, fuels, electrical machinery, heavy industrial machinery, food
Imports - partners: Argentina 17%, U.S. 14.1%, Brazil 11.1%, China 7.1% (2004)
Finance
Debt - external: $43.3 billion (2004)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $0 million (2002 est.)
Currency: Chilean peso (CLP)
Currency code: CLP
Exchange rates: Chilean pesos per U.S. dollar - 559.75 (2005), 609.37 (2004), 691.43 (2003), 688.94 (2002), 634.94 (2001), 539.59 (2000)
Fiscal year: calendar year
