GDP: purchasing power parity - $185.1 billion (1999 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -1% (1999 est.)
GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $12,400 (1999 est.)
GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture:
6%
industry:
33%
services:
61% (1999)
Population below poverty line: 22% (1998 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%:
1.2%
highest 10%:
41.3% (1998)
Inflation rate (consumer prices): 3.4% (1999 est.)
Labor force: 5.8 million (1999 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture 14%, industry 27%, services 59% (1997 est.)
Unemployment rate: 9% (1999)
Budget:
revenues:
$17 billion
expenditures:
$17 billion, including capital expenditures of $NA (1998 est.)
Industries: copper, other minerals, foodstuffs, fish processing, iron and steel, wood and wood products, transport equipment, cement, textiles
Industrial production growth rate: -1.3% (1999 est.)
Electricity - production: 37.49 billion kWh (1999)
Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel:
50%
hydro:
50%
nuclear:
0%
other:
0% (December 1999)
Electricity - consumption: 26.665 billion kWh (1998)
Electricity - exports: 0 kWh (1998)
Electricity - imports: 0 kWh (1998)
Agriculture - products: wheat, corn, grapes, beans, sugar beets, potatoes, fruit; beef, poultry, wool; fish; timber
Exports: $15.6 billion (f.o.b., 1999)
Exports - commodities: copper, fish, fruits, paper and pulp, chemicals
Exports - partners: EU 27%, US 16%, Japan 14%, Brazil 6%, Argentina 5% (1998)
Imports: $13.9 billion (c.i.f., 1999)
Imports - commodities: consumer goods, chemicals, motor vehicles, fuels, electrical machinery, heavy industrial machinery, food
Imports - partners: US 24%, EU 23%, Argentina 11%, Brazil 6%, Japan 6%, Mexico 5% (1998)
Debt - external: $39 billion (1999)
Economic aid - recipient: ODA, $50.3 million (1996 est.)
Currency: 1 Chilean peso (Ch$) = 100 centavos
Exchange rates: Chilean pesos (Ch$) per US$1 - 520.45 (January 2000), 508.78 (1999), 460.29 (1998), 419.30 (1997), 412.27 (1996), 396.77 (1995)
Fiscal year: calendar year