Chile
In The Cracks Index, Chile ranks 34 of 40. 33 countries catch their most vulnerable people more reliably; 6 countries do so less reliably.
63.9
0 best · 100 widest cracks · built from 7 indicators
The change most likely to close the widest crack in Chile
Shorter, better-signposted routes into mental-health support are the lever most associated with improvement here — closing the gap between need and care.
Linked to the indicator mental-health treatment gap. This is the index pointing forward: not a judgement, but a lever. The estimated impact is published as a direction, not a promise.
Where Chile’s safety net holds, and where it is under strain
Each bar is the indicator normalised to 0–100, direction-corrected so a longer bar always means more cracks. The raw public value and the source year sit beside it.
Problematic debt
weight 19%Share of households with debts they can no longer repay. The first crack most people fall through, and the one that pushes the others open.
Raw value 19.5 % of householdssource year 2024Openestimate
Number of evictions
weight 15%Court-ordered evictions per 10,000 households. A direct measure of how often housing insecurity is allowed to reach its endpoint.
Raw value 20.5 per 10,000 householdssource year 2024Openestimate
Mental-health treatment gapWidest crack
weight 15%Share of people with an identified mental-health care need who receive no care. The distance between needing help and reaching it.
Raw value 29 % unmet needsource year 2024Openestimate
Unmet youth care
weight 12%Share of young people referred for care who wait longer than the recommended term or are never helped. A crack measured early in a life.
Raw value 21.5 % unmet needsource year 2024Openestimate
Food insecurity
weight 12%Share of the population reporting moderate or severe food insecurity. The point at which a financial shortfall reaches the kitchen table.
Raw value 19.2 % of the populationsource year 2023Wideningmeasured
Severe material deprivation
weight 12%Share of the population unable to afford several basic necessities that most people take for granted. A widely used floor for material insecurity.
Raw value 14 % of the populationsource year 2024Wideningestimate
Homelessness
weight 8%Estimated homeless people per 10,000 inhabitants. A modelled estimate at municipality level, as no per-municipality open measurement exists. Homelessness is an unambiguous sign of a torn safety net.
Raw value 10.66 per 10,000 inhabitantssource year 2023Holdingmeasured
The widest crack in Chile is mental-health treatment gap, which carries the most weight in raising the composite score. That is what the fix above targets.
Cite this figure
Fynqo (2026). The Cracks Index, v1-20260525. Snapshot of 2026-05-25. Licensed under CC-BY-4.0. https://fynqo.app/cracks-index/
Every value on this page is a public country-level aggregate. No personal data is used. The method is fully public.
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