Table 1.6

Employment in the Mining Sector by Region

Unit: Yearly average number of workers · Cochilco, Anuario Cochilco 2025 · 2013 to 2025

Employment in the Mining Sector by Region. Yearly average number of workers
Series	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
Arica and Parinacota Region
Employment in the mining sector	9,607	7,190	8,601	6,207	5,667	5,992	6,068	4,859	5,459	5,669	7,451	7,987	8,042
Total employment in the region	98,618	96,735	101,394	103,232	103,695	106,449	112,382	97,702	104,540	110,838	112,958	115,266	117,765
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0974	0.0743	0.0848	0.0601	0.0547	0.0563	0.054	0.0497	0.0522	0.0511	0.066	0.0693	0.0683
Tarapacá Region
Employment in the mining sector	10,628	14,300	13,685	11,472	11,349	10,027	13,467	13,550	14,824	20,013	16,263	15,209	18,656
Total employment in the region	143,301	146,976	152,564	158,578	161,711	159,765	169,766	151,418	165,568	185,287	190,055	193,371	188,579
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0742	0.0973	0.0897	0.0723	0.0702	0.0628	0.0793	0.0895	0.0895	0.108	0.0856	0.0787	0.0989
Antofagasta Region
Employment in the mining sector	58,269	54,669	50,190	47,540	51,518	56,160	55,415	49,308	49,560	62,335	62,023	63,823	68,070
Total employment in the region	259,587	264,922	270,675	278,685	278,431	299,364	315,023	289,056	310,390	327,878	337,124	344,370	356,303
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.2245	0.2064	0.1854	0.1706	0.185	0.1876	0.1759	0.1706	0.1597	0.1901	0.184	0.1853	0.191
Atacama Region
Employment in the mining sector	22,859	21,250	23,153	19,377	22,201	23,786	23,289	24,126	26,066	27,829	27,785	28,211	27,700
Total employment in the region	131,747	133,213	130,012	131,252	137,674	142,718	145,979	127,887	132,968	142,395	147,861	152,229	152,074
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.1735	0.1595	0.1781	0.1476	0.1613	0.1667	0.1595	0.1887	0.196	0.1954	0.1879	0.1853	0.1821
Coquimbo Region
Employment in the mining sector	42,458	37,641	34,309	34,566	31,210	30,264	32,767	28,689	34,194	39,397	40,503	43,180	48,615
Total employment in the region	317,459	338,075	346,131	352,512	346,448	359,935	378,856	322,102	330,614	354,233	367,487	379,671	389,978
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.1337	0.1113	0.0991	0.0981	0.0901	0.0841	0.0865	0.0891	0.1034	0.1112	0.1102	0.1137	0.1247
Valparaíso Region
Employment in the mining sector	33,842	31,287	27,946	22,919	22,480	23,376	27,799	24,948	28,036	37,447	36,506	37,751	35,241
Total employment in the region	801,589	821,728	834,754	842,412	868,286	877,724	879,329	760,320	814,953	878,130	901,132	905,247	918,821
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0422	0.0381	0.0335	0.0272	0.0259	0.0266	0.0316	0.0328	0.0344	0.0426	0.0405	0.0417	0.0384
Santiago Metropolitan Region
Employment in the mining sector	28,751	30,763	29,763	23,917	22,304	27,434	31,671	25,618	27,195	35,033	32,741	38,891	41,276
Total employment in the region	3,425,360	3,452,962	3,526,898	3,551,419	3,702,451	3,808,379	3,899,201	3,515,941	3,752,720	3,970,764	4,051,605	4,127,352	4,163,090
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0084	0.0089	0.0084	0.0067	0.006	0.0072	0.0081	0.0073	0.0072	0.0088	0.0081	0.0094	0.0099
Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins Region
Employment in the mining sector	20,935	18,774	21,448	19,160	17,974	16,592	20,739	15,635	16,334	18,725	20,776	19,816	22,428
Total employment in the region	420,744	420,576	420,780	430,210	434,598	436,256	443,623	397,128	399,783	428,910	430,278	450,572	458,804
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0498	0.0446	0.051	0.0445	0.0414	0.038	0.0467	0.0394	0.0409	0.0437	0.0483	0.044	0.0489
Maule Region
Employment in the mining sector	6,122	7,906	6,346	3,144	2,465	4,212	3,956	2,029	4,481	5,087	4,501	4,731	6,589
Total employment in the region	453,422	468,270	485,920	487,133	488,355	503,176	507,724	458,317	455,790	489,911	508,280	522,856	518,644
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0135	0.0169	0.0131	0.0065	0.005	0.0084	0.0078	0.0044	0.0098	0.0104	0.0089	0.009	0.0127
Ñuble Region
Employment in the mining sector	3,259	3,579	4,246	2,720	1,569	1,827	2,787	2,056	1,901	1,966	3,504	3,012	3,245
Total employment in the region	209,080	209,286	211,550	223,636	218,289	222,105	225,393	197,540	206,034	211,927	213,696	216,131	223,617
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0156	0.0171	0.0201	0.0122	0.0072	0.0082	0.0124	0.0104	0.0092	0.0093	0.0164	0.0139	0.0145
Biobío Region
Employment in the mining sector	17,550	16,946	12,773	10,000	9,737	10,970	14,025	8,835	9,778	12,226	18,972	16,364	18,953
Total employment in the region	642,848	645,118	670,993	674,996	676,121	689,393	704,655	619,555	637,570	685,231	692,151	713,946	715,308
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0273	0.0263	0.019	0.0148	0.0144	0.0159	0.0199	0.0143	0.0153	0.0178	0.0274	0.0229	0.0265
La Araucanía Region
Employment in the mining sector	1,904	1,226	1,031	1,930	1,310	275	713	698	782	1,392	2,717	2,836	2,154
Total employment in the region	433,571	445,145	426,943	432,035	433,749	436,038	437,897	358,851	366,305	407,525	419,728	427,357	441,361
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0044	0.0028	0.0024	0.0045	0.003	0.0006	0.0016	0.0019	0.0021	0.0034	0.0065	0.0066	0.0049
Los Ríos Region
Employment in the mining sector	967	1,217	932	385	619	719	242	538	456	425	840	889	497
Total employment in the region	175,953	176,484	178,783	184,970	193,783	191,059	189,898	159,469	162,960	176,292	177,989	183,867	186,359
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0055	0.0069	0.0052	0.0021	0.0032	0.0038	0.0013	0.0034	0.0028	0.0024	0.0047	0.0048	0.0027
Los Lagos Region
Employment in the mining sector	306	398	177	653	432	484	389	285	153	290	343	814	578
Total employment in the region	396,750	398,566	397,253	397,300	403,305	400,762	415,212	332,311	331,645	342,465	368,777	410,980	402,710
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0008	0.001	0.0004	0.0016	0.0011	0.0012	0.0009	0.0009	0.0005	0.0008	0.0009	0.002	0.0014
Aysén del General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo Region
Employment in the mining sector	1,196	977	820	947	1,154	783	270	301	347	658	519	510	566
Total employment in the region	51,983	53,491	54,766	55,951	57,183	57,550	57,196	53,901	54,681	57,946	58,936	58,773	59,677
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.023	0.0183	0.015	0.0169	0.0202	0.0136	0.0047	0.0056	0.0063	0.0114	0.0088	0.0087	0.0095
Magallanes and Chilean Antarctic Region
Employment in the mining sector	3,816	4,273	4,680	4,243	3,254	3,275	3,314	1,955	1,660	2,212	2,113	1,829	1,659
Total employment in the region	77,619	81,578	83,637	85,610	88,114	92,929	93,773	80,967	87,439	92,964	96,333	96,553	98,394
Share of mining employment in regional employment	0.0492	0.0524	0.056	0.0496	0.0369	0.0352	0.0353	0.0241	0.019	0.0238	0.0219	0.0189	0.0169

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.

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n.d.: no data · n.a.: not applicable · “< 1”: less than one unit.