Demographics Chile is located in the southern most part of South America. It is bordered by Argentina, Peru, and the Pacific Ocean. Chile has an estimated 15,980,912 people now living in this country. The majority of this number is made up of white and white-Amerindian At 95% of the population. At 3% is Amerindian and the rest of the population is dispersed. There are two major religions in Chile. The larger of the two is Roman Catholic which …
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…over the years, the 1992 census showed us that almost 77% of the population claimed Catholic as their religion. Thirteen percent of the remaining claimed to be either Evangelical or Protestant. Chileans who declared themselves indifferent to religion or atheists consisted of about 7% of the population. The remaining of the religious groups consisted of mainly Jewish, Muslim, and Christian Orthodox. "Religion and Churches." U.S. Library of Congress. 1994. Retrieved on January 22, 2006 from http://countrystudies.us/chile/51.htm