Chile
- Capital
- Santiago
- Population
- 18 m
- Area
- 756,102 km²
- Region
- South America
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Chilean peso ($)
- Demonym
- Chilean
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the Mapuche of the south and the moai-builders of Rapa Nui to the Spanish founding of Santiago in 1541, the independence sealed at Maipu in 1818, the nitrate wealth of the War of the Pacific, the rupture of 1973, the Pinochet dictatorship and the long democratic recovery.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.