Extreme poverty rate in Chile

0.4% of people in Chile lived on less than $3.00 a day in 2024. The value for 2024 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1987.

Measure: Extreme poverty rate at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) Unit: % of population Data: 1987 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Chile, 2024 0.4% % of population
Change from 2022 −0.2percentage points 2022: 0.6%
World, 2024 10.1% Official aggregate
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2024 1.3% Middle value of 5 countries

Extreme poverty rate in Chile over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Extreme poverty rate at $3.00 a day (2021 PPP) (% of population), 2001 to 2024
Period ChileWorld
2024 0.4% 10.1%
2023 – 10.5%
2022 0.6% 10.9%
2021 – 11.3%
2020 1.7% 11.4%
2018 – 11.1%
2017 0.5% 11.8%
2016 – 12.6%
2015 0.7% 13.4%
2014 – 14.5%
2013 0.8% 15.5%
2012 – 17.8%
2011 1.7% 19.1%
2010 – 21.0%
2009 2.6% 23.1%
2008 – 24.1%
2007 – 25.3%
2006 3.3% 27.0%
2005 – 28.3%
2004 – 30.3%
2003 7.9% 32.2%
2002 – 33.7%
2001 – 35.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 0.6% in 2022, a change of −0.2 percentage points.
  • Since 2000, when it was 8.6%, the figure has changed by −8.2 percentage points.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 10.1%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.DDAY · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1987 to 2024 for Chile
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform