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Background of companies included in consolidation (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2018

Disclosure of Background of companies included in consolidation [Abstract]

Disclosure of Parent's stand-alone assets and liabilities [Text Block]

6.1

Parent’s stand-alone assets and liabilities

		12/31/2018				12/31/2017
		ThUS$				ThUS$

Assets			3,737,892				3,658,528
Liabilities			(1,652,401	)			(1,470,707	)
Equity			2,085,491				2,187,821

Disclosure of Information attributable to non-controlling interests [Text Block]

6.3

Background on non-controlling interests

Subsidiary		% of interests in the ownership held by non-controlling interests,				Profit (loss) attributable to non- controlling interests								Equity, non-controlling interests								Dividends paid to non- controlling interests
						12/31/2018				12/31/2017				12/31/2018				12/31/2017				12/31/2018				12/31/2017
						ThUS$				ThUS$				ThUS$				ThUS$				ThUS$				ThUS$
Proinsa Ltda.			0.1	%			-				-				-				-				-				-
SQM Potasio S.A.			0.0000001	%			-				-				-				-				-				-
Ajay SQM Chile S.A.			49	%			1,176				1,023				8,659				8,306				823				989
SQM Indonesia S.A.			20	%			-				-				1				1				-				-
Soquimich Comercial S.A.			39.3616784	%			1,375				100				41,855				49,247				8,910				1,264
Comercial Agrorama Ltda.			30	%			(318	)			(403	)			(481	)			(184	)			-				-
Agrorama S.A.			0.001	%			-				-				-				-				-				-
Orcoma Estudios SPA			49	%			-				-				2,277				2,277				-				-
SQM (Thailand) Limited.			0.004	%			-				-				-				-				-				-
Total							2,233				720				52,311				59,647				9,733				2,253