Table 1.5
Employment in the Mining Sector by Gender
Unit: Yearly average number of workers · Cochilco, Anuario Cochilco 2025 · 2013 to 2025
| Series | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MEN | |||||||||||||
| Men employed in mining | 242,690 | 232,603 | 219,949 | 189,903 | 187,506 | 195,139 | 213,104 | 182,708 | 197,050 | 236,245 | 239,902 | 246,349 | 259,300 |
| Total employed men in the country | 4,758,133 | 4,784,238 | 4,877,071 | 4,905,112 | 4,995,416 | 5,092,879 | 5,173,233 | 4,664,359 | 4,883,981 | 5,119,524 | 5,174,480 | 5,308,551 | 5,338,641 |
| Men employed in mining relative to total employment | 0.051 | 0.0486 | 0.0451 | 0.0387 | 0.0375 | 0.0383 | 0.0412 | 0.0392 | 0.0403 | 0.0461 | 0.0464 | 0.0464 | 0.0486 |
| Men employed in mining as a share of total mining employment | 0.9246 | 0.9216 | 0.9161 | 0.9078 | 0.9136 | 0.9027 | 0.8995 | 0.8981 | 0.8907 | 0.8727 | 0.8643 | 0.8618 | 0.8522 |
| WOMEN | |||||||||||||
| Women employed in mining | 19,778 | 19,793 | 20,150 | 19,278 | 17,737 | 21,037 | 23,807 | 20,725 | 24,177 | 34,460 | 37,654 | 39,504 | 44,969 |
| Total employed women in the country | 3,281,498 | 3,368,889 | 3,415,984 | 3,484,818 | 3,596,778 | 3,690,724 | 3,802,676 | 3,258,105 | 3,429,977 | 3,743,173 | 3,899,909 | 3,989,990 | 4,052,843 |
| Women employed in mining relative to total employment | 0.006 | 0.0059 | 0.0059 | 0.0055 | 0.0049 | 0.0057 | 0.0063 | 0.0064 | 0.007 | 0.0092 | 0.0097 | 0.0099 | 0.0111 |
| Women employed in mining as a share of total mining employment | 0.0754 | 0.0784 | 0.0839 | 0.0922 | 0.0864 | 0.0973 | 0.1005 | 0.1019 | 0.1093 | 0.1273 | 0.1357 | 0.1382 | 0.1478 |
| TOTAL | |||||||||||||
| Employment in the mining sector | 262,468 | 252,396 | 240,099 | 209,181 | 205,243 | 216,176 | 236,911 | 203,433 | 221,227 | 270,705 | 277,556 | 285,853 | 304,269 |
| Total employment in the country | 8,039,631 | 8,153,127 | 8,293,055 | 8,389,930 | 8,592,194 | 8,783,603 | 8,975,909 | 7,922,464 | 8,313,958 | 8,862,697 | 9,074,389 | 9,298,541 | 9,391,484 |
| Mining employment in total national employment | 0.0326 | 0.031 | 0.029 | 0.0249 | 0.0239 | 0.0246 | 0.0264 | 0.0257 | 0.0266 | 0.0305 | 0.0306 | 0.0307 | 0.0324 |
Notes of the table
- (1) La actividad económica considerada como minería corresponde a "Explotación de minas y canteras", de acuerdo con el Clasificador de Actividades Económicas Nacional para Encuestas Sociodemográficas (CAENES), adaptación del Clasificador Chileno de Actividades Económicas CIIU4.CL 2012 / The economic activity considered as mining corresponds to "Mining and quarrying", according to the National Classification of Economic Activities for Socio-demographic Surveys (CAENES), an adaptation of the Chilean Classification of Economic Activities CIIU4.CL 2012
Source stated in the table
COCHILCO, en base a información de la Encuesta Nacional de Empleo del Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas (INE) / COCHILCO, based on information from the National Employment Survey of the National Statistics Institute (INE)
Source: Chilean Copper Commission (Cochilco), Cochilco, Anuario Cochilco 2025 (XLSX), 2026. Read on Oct 6, 2026.
n.d.: no data · n.a.: not applicable · “< 1”: less than one unit.