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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]
The statistics for Islam in Chile estimate a total Muslim population of 3,196, representing 0.02 percent of the population. Islam has enjoyed a long history in Chile. Aurelio Díaz Meza's Chronicles of the History of Chile , one man in discoverer Diego de Almagro 's expedition, a certain Pedro de Gasco, was a morisco (that is, a Moor from al ...
The list of religious populations article provides a comprehensive overview of the distribution and size of religious groups around the world. This article aims to present statistical information on the number of adherents to various religions, including major faiths such as Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and others, as well as smaller religious communities.
Irreligious people, atheists, and agnostics account for around 12% of the population. By 2015, the major religion in Chile remained Christianity (68%), with an estimated 55% of Chileans belonging to the Roman Catholic church, 13% to various Evangelical churches, and just 7% adhering to any other religion.
Argentina equally corresponds to the second largest population and percentage with 39 million people, followed by Colombia with 18m, Venezuela 13.1m, Chile 9.5m, Peru 5.8m, Bolivia 2m, Paraguay 1.3m and Ecuador with 980 thousand. Roughly 14% of the population in French Guiana is of European ancestry, numbering at 35 thousand people.
For many years, Spanish-descent settlers and religious orders imported African slaves to the country, which in the early 19th century constituted 1.5% of the national population. [39] Despite this, the Afro-Chilean population was small, reaching a height of only 2,500 — or 0.1% of the total population — during the colonial period. [ 40 ]
Scholarly estimates of the White population in Chile vary dramatically, ranging from 52% [9] to 64%. [10] According to a study by the University of Chile about 65% of the Chilean population is Caucasian, [ 11 ] while the 2011 Latinobarómetro survey shows that some 60% of Chileans consider themselves White.
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 ...