Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Chile

6.5% of people in Chile lived below the national poverty line in 2022. The value for 2022 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 1987.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 1987 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Chile, 2022 6.5% % of population
Change from 2020 −4.2percentage points 2020: 10.7%
Median of OECD (38 countries), 2022 16.1% Middle value of 13 countries

Poverty rate at national poverty lines 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.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2003 to 2022
Period Chile
2022 6.5%
2020 10.7%
2017 8.5%
2015 11.2%
2013 13.9%
2011 21.7%
2009 24.8%
2006 28.7%
2003 35.4%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 10.7% in 2020, a change of −4.2 percentage points.
  • Since 1998, when it was 21.6%, the figure has changed by −15.1 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1987 to 2022 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, from national sources