Births

A total of 12,420 births were registered in May 2026 (50.4% were male and 49.5% were female), a year-on-year decrease of 1.2%, according to the Vital Statistics Bulletin, which is published by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

According to the mother’s age bracket, the greatest percentage of births was to mothers aged 30 to 34 (28.6%, or 3,554 live births), followed by births of mothers aged 25 to 29 years (26.0%, or 3,228 live births).

Marriages and Civil Union Agreements (CUAs)

Vital statistics for May 2026 show 4,292 marriages in Chile, which is equivalent to an 8% increase compared to the same month in 2025.

The number of CUAs totaled 2,022, which represents a year-on-year increase of 26%. The majority of CUAs (90.1%) were of different-sex couples, while CUAs between men accounted for 4.9% and those between women for 5%.

Deaths

In the period of analysis, 11,009 deaths were observed, 5,790 male (52.6%) and 5,218 female (47.4%). Total deaths were 543 fewer than in the same month of the previous year, which represents a decrease of 4.7%.

The majority of deaths occurred in persons aged 60 and over, and they were concentrated in the age bracket 80 to 99 years, representing 43.3% of the total, or 4,770 deaths. There were 78 deaths of children aged under one year, which accounts for 0.7% of total deaths of the period.

Vital Statistics web page in English.