InvestChile, the Chilean Agency for Foreign Investment Promotion, reported that its portfolio of foreign investment projects reached $65.689 billion in 2025, representing a 16.8% increase compared to the $56.234 billion recorded at the end of 2024. The agency managed a total of 463 projects at various stages of development.
Of this total, $16.246 billion corresponded to investments already being implemented or under development through 107 projects, which generated 3,886 direct and permanent jobs.
Karla Flores, director of InvestChile, highlighted the agency’s significant growth over the past four years: “Chile is an attractive country for foreign companies and has a series of attributes that make it stand out from its regional peers when a company is selecting where to develop its investment plans. But behind this 132% growth there is also great work by the InvestChile team, which in the last four years focused on four main areas: strengthening business intelligence and investment climate tasks; consolidating the network of attachés; promoting foreign investment in regions through agreements with regional governments; and active promotion of public portfolios for tenders and concessions,” said Flores.
Foreign companies supported by InvestChile concentrated their investments mainly in four sectors: Energy ($38.166 billion), Mining ($14.409 billion), Global Services and Technology ($5.604 billion), and Infrastructure ($5.572 billion). The value of mining projects increased by 67%, while infrastructure projects grew by 64% compared to figures at the end of 2024.
Regarding countries of origin for these investments, U.S.-based companies accounted for the largest share with $19.090 billion invested. Denmark followed with $11.307 billion, while companies from the United Kingdom contributed $7.658 billion.
Additionally, about 84%—equivalent to $55.501 billion—of potential investments are located outside Chile’s Metropolitan Region.
Flores presented these results during the InvestChile Seminar 2026: “Challenges and Opportunities for Investment in the New Global Economic Scenario.” The event featured William Maloney, chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean at the World Bank as keynote speaker.
The seminar included two discussion panels: one on women leaders’ perspectives on key industries facing global challenges—with participants such as Amparo Cornejo (Consejo Minero/Teck Resources), Pilar Concha (ACAFI), Ana Lía Rojas (ACERA), Gloria Hutt (COPSA), and Camila Gatica (Amazon Web Services/ACTI)—and another analyzing global financial trends with panelists including Oltmann Ahlers (Manova Partners), José Mestres (Patria Investments), Macarena Navarrete (EY Chile), and Jean-Marc Arbogast (World Bank Group).
