German Chileans Today
The exact number German-Chileans is unknown, because many of the early arrivals' descendants have intermarried and assimilated over the past 150 years. According to the last census, there were 5,906 German-citizens living in Chile.
An independent estimate calculates that about 500,000 Chileans could be descendants of German immigrants.
An estimated 20,000 Chileans still speak the German language. There are also German schools and German-language newspapers and periodicals in Chile (e.g., Cóndor – a weekly German-language newspaper).
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