Migration trends in Chile
Latin America
1.5M people from around the world have made Chile their home. That's 7.6% of the country population, arriving from 95 different countries
19.8M
Population
1.5M
Immigrants
444.5K
Emigrants
+1.1M
Inflow
1 in every 13 people in Chile was born abroad
The #45 largest immigrant destination worldwide
Top corridors
The largest migration routes in Chile
Where people come from
Where people move to
Key moments
How migration has changed since 1990
1990
97.5K immigrants · 391K emigrants
1995
- The foreign-born population passed 100K residents
2005
- Peru overtook Argentina as the largest source of new arrivals
2010
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 58%
- The gap between arrivals and departures was cut in half
2015
- The country became a destination — more people arriving than leaving
2020
- A surge of arrivals — the foreign-born population jumped 150%
- Venezuela overtook Peru as the largest source of new arrivals
- Roughly 1 in 20 residents was now foreign-born
- Surge of immigrants from Venezuela — 386.3K new arrivals
Today
- Slipped out of the 3 biggest immigrant destinations in Latin America
- Since 1990: 1.4M more foreign-born residents and 53.5K more citizens living abroad