Santiago — UN urban centre
Santiago: 6,726,045 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #58 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 2380; territory: Chile (CHL). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: -33.4915, -70.6534. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 2,834,965 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 3,390,281 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 3,860,810 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 4,257,772 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 4,751,039 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 5,305,308 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 5,725,183 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 5,994,720 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 6,232,317 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 6,567,054 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 6,726,045 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 6,852,210 | Projection |
| 2035 | 6,924,607 | Projection |
| 2040 | 6,974,263 | Projection |
| 2045 | 6,977,472 | Projection |
| 2050 | 6,931,370 | Projection |
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