Economy of Chile

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• Chile

GDP

2022: GDP size forecast - $0.31 trillion

Countries by GDP size in 2022, according to the IMF midyear forecast

2021: GDP size - $0.33 trillion

GDP countries in the world in 2021 according to the estimates of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

National debt

2023: State debt - 38% of GDP

Data for September 2023

2017: State debt - 24% of GDP

The ratio of public debt to the country's GDP, 2017

Labour market

2022: Proportion of workers aged 65 or over - above 15%

Data for 2022

Unemployment

2023: Youth unemployment 19.8%

2020: Unemployment rate - 11.4%

Countries around the world in terms of unemployment in 2020

Incomes of the population

2023: Minimum wage - $369

Minimum wage in countries of the world for January 2023

2022: Share of citizens with a budget of less than $5.5 per day

Сравнение data for 2012 and 2022

Inflation

2022: Inflation in November - 12.8%

Data for November 2022

Power

The structure of energy generation in Latin America in 2019

Dynamics of increasing power generation capacity in Latin America

Energy carriers

2020: Energy consumption per capita

Energy consumption per capita, including electricity, transport heating in 2019-2020

Foreign trade

2022: China is the biggest export destination

According to data available for August 2023.

2018: Main export item - copper

The main export item is copper, data for 2020.

2015: Top ten global apple exporters with 8.4% share

Data for 2015

Mining

2023: The start of the nationalization of lithium production

Chile plans to nationalize lithium production in the country - the second metal producer in the world to be used for electric vehicle batteries.

Control from lithium giants SQM and Albemarle will pass to a separate state-owned company under the pretext of "economic development and environmental protection."

2022

Among the top 10 leading countries in the production of critical raw materials

Countries that dominate the production of critical raw materials (data for 2022)

Lithium reserves - 11 million tons. Produced - 39,000 tonnes of lithium

Lithium production and reserves in countries around the world, 2022

Lithium reserves for April - 9.6 million tons

The "triangle" of South America and Mexico as of April 2022 accounts for 60% of the world's lithium deposits.

2021: Lithium production - 26,000 tonnes

2021

2018

Copper production - 5.8 million tons

Among the top 10 countries in terms of silver production

Data for 2018

Communication

Mobile Data Prices

Tourism

Data for 2018

Alcohol market

Minimum age to purchase alcoholic beverages

Data for 2018

R&D

2020: R&D spending - $1.5 billion

R&D expenses, as of 2020

Agriculture

2019: Average use of pesticides in agriculture

As of 2019

Consumption

Meat

2023: Poultry meat is the most consumed type of meat

The most consumed type of meat (including fish and seafood) according to data available for June 2023.