Chile
Republic of Chile
- Region
- Americas · South America
- Capital
- Santiago
- Population
- 19,859,921 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Chilean peso (CLP)
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish 99.5% (official), English 10.2%, Indigenous 1% (includes Mapudungun, Aymara, Quechua, Rapa Nui), other 2.3%, unspecified 0.2% (2012 est.)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 756,102 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- APEC, IMF, Mercosur (associate), OECD (enhanced engagement), WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Argentina , Bolivia , Peru
Political stability
68 / 100
Economic stability
57 / 100
Population stability
56 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- copper ore, refined copper, fish, carbonates, pitted fruits (2023)
- Key imports
- refined petroleum, crude petroleum, cars, garments, trucks (2023)
- Natural resources
- copper, timber, iron ore, nitrates, precious metals, molybdenum, hydropower
- Critical minerals
- World’s largest copper producer; top-tier lithium brine reserves.
- Luxury goods
- premium wine
- Primary route
- Pacific services to Asia
- Secondary route
- Panama Canal connections to Atlantic markets
The xin.bz view
- Chilean copper output is tightening (~5.27M t forecast for 2026, down ~2.6%) into ~$5.95/lb prices — raising the value of reliable mine-to-port logistics across Andean passes, power, water, and Pacific ports.
- Chile is the second pillar of Pacific fish meal — Camanchaca’s Iquique and Coronel plants run on anchoveta and sardine — and lower 2026 quotas alongside Peru’s emergency tighten the global marine-protein balance.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño Is Reordering South America's Export Map
El Niño makes South America the world's replacement supplier — record Brazilian crops, Argentine rainfall gains, Peru's fishmeal shock, and the logistics that decide who can move it.
Commodity Deep Dive ·
Fish Meal Is the High-Protein Feed Commodity Whose Global Supply Can Turn on One Peruvian Fishery
Fish meal deep dive — Peru's anchovy fishery supplies ~20% of a 5.1M t market, the 2026 season stopped at 25% of quota under a 120-day national emergency, China takes 78% of exports, and prices hit $2,105/mt.
Future Insight ·
The AI Factory Becomes an Industrial Commodity Complex — How Data Centers Reshape Cooling, Water, Power, Metals, and Global Trade Through 2050
Future Insights deep dive — how AI data centers reshape global demand for copper, transformers, cooling equipment, waste heat, and grid capacity through 2050, and what it means for global trade.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.