Chile Latin America & Caribbean
Upper middle income Upper middleincome Country data group 2005 2010 2010
Economic and social context Population (millions) Urban population (% of total) GNI per capita, World Bank Atlas method ($) GDP growth, 2000–05 and 2005–10 (avg. annual %) Adult literacy rate (% ages 15 and older) Gross primary, secondary, tertiary school enrollment (%)
16 88 5,920 4.2 96 83
17 89 10,120 3.0 99 85
Sector structure Yes Separate telecommunications/ICT regulator Private Status of main fixed-line operator Level of competition (competition, partial comp., monopoly) C International gateway(s) C Mobile telephone service C Internet service 100 Foreign ownership (percentage allowed) No Reg. treatment of VoIP (banned, closed, no framework, allowed) Sector efficiency and capacity Telecommunications revenue (% of GDP) Telecommunications investment (% of revenue) Sector performance Access Fixed-telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) Mobile-cellular telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions (per 100 people) Households with a computer (%) Households with Internet access at home (%) Usage Int’l. voice traffic, total (minutes/subscription/month) Domestic mobile traffic (minutes/subscription/month) Individuals using the Internet (%) Quality Population covered by a mobile-cellular network (%) Fixed (wired)-broadband subscriptions (% of total Internet) International Internet bandwidth (bit/s per Internet user) Affordability Fixed-telephone sub-basket ($ a month) Mobile-cellular sub-basket ($ a month) Fixed-broadband sub-basket ($ a month) Trade ICT goods exports (% of total goods exports) ICT goods imports (% of total goods imports) ICT service exports (% of total service exports) Applications E-government Web measure index (0–1, 1=highest presence) Secure Internet servers (per million people)
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2,452 57 5,886 6.3 93 73
Yes Private C C C 100 A
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2.4 ..
21.1 64.8 4.35 30.1a 16.7a
20.2 116.0 10.45 46.8a 35.0a
21.5 84.3 8.34 35.2 25.1
3.7 55.9 31.2a
2.3 87.3 45.0a
3.2 137.9 34.1
100 100 78.2 98.3 2,500a 19,140
99 69.0 9,037
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25.0 23.7 39.4
9.8 14.9 17.6
0.1 6.8 3.1
0.4 8.2 2.2
15.5 15.0 5.8
0.58 21.0
0.75 67.5
0.46 20.1
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