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As in most of Chile, the majority of the population of Santiago is Catholic. According to the National Census, carried out in 2002 by the National Statistics Bureau ( INE ), in the Santiago Metropolitan Region, 3,129,249 people 15 and older identified themselves as Catholics, equivalent to 68.7% of the total population, while 595,173 (13.1% ...
Chile's 2017 census reported a population of 17,574,003 people. Its rate of population growth has been decreasing since 1990, due to a declining birth rate . [ 6 ] By 2050 the population is expected to reach approximately 20.2 million people, at which point it is projected to either stagnate or begin declining. [ 7 ]
This is a list of cities in Chile. A city is defined by Chile 's National Statistics Institute (INE) as an "urban entity" [ note 1 ] with more than 5,000 inhabitants. This list is based on a June 2005 report by the INE based on the 2002 census which registered 239 cities across the country.
Chile had a population of 17.5 million as of the latest census in 2017 and has a territorial area of 756,102 square kilometers (291,933 sq mi), [10] [3] sharing borders with Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south.
According to the 2002 census of the National Statistics Institute, the commune has an area of 22.4 km 2 (9 sq mi) and a population of 200,792 (99,155 men and 101,637 women), giving it a population density of 8,963.9/km 2 (23,216/sq mi). The population shrank by 13.1% (30,185 persons) in the ten years since the 1992 population of 230,977. [4]
National Statistics Office of Chile (Chile's 2014 national and regional population), accessed on 9 April 2016. OECD's OECD.Stat (Chile's 2014 PPP conversion factor for GDP (375.432372)), accessed on 9 April 2016. World Bank's World Development Indicators (2014 GDP (PPP) per capita for world countries), accessed on 9 April 2016.
Most commercial and administrative centers are located in the region, including Chile's main international airport, Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport. With an area of 15,403.2 km 2 (5,947 sq mi) and population over seven million, it is Chile's most populated and most densely populated region.
The National Statistics Institute of Chile (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Chile, INE) is a state-run organization of the Government of Chile, created in the second half of the 19th century and tasked with performing a general census of population and housing, then collecting, producing and publishing official demographic statistics of people in Chile, in addition to other ...