World population/Chile
South America
Population of Chile
19,945,850
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#67
world rank
0.24%
of world population
+0.40%
yearly change
+80,301
people this year
169,096
births a year
134,950
deaths a year
How the figure for Chile is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Chile at 19,945,850 on 1 July 2026, and projects 20,026,151 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people added every second.
That places Chile at number 67 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.24 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 169,096 births and 134,950 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.