Santiago Metro recorded 60.3 million people transported in August 2026, a 3.9% year-over-year increase, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE) Transport and Communications Bulletin published on October 1. The figure describes the month’s flow and compares August 2026 with August 2025. It is not a count of unique passengers, the population served, fare revenue, or a year-to-date total. The release rounds the total to one decimal place in millions, so it does not provide an exact number of fare validations. This article reports the total and rate at the precision published by INE.

The bulletin divides trips by fare status. Full-fare trips totaled 38.0 million and rose 2.8% over twelve months. Trips in the reduced-fare category reached 22.3 million, an increase of 5.9%. The two rounded category totals add to the reported 60.3 million. INE’s footnote says reduced fare includes older adults and students at different educational levels. These groups describe the fare applied to reported transport; they are not a complete age classification or a count of individually identified people.

The overall 3.9% growth rate falls between the rates for the two segments: 2.8% for full fare and 5.9% for reduced fare. That is consistent with the faster percentage increase in the reduced-fare group, but the bulletin summary does not provide unrounded base values or a decomposition of each segment’s contribution. It does not state why the figures changed. The result should not be attributed to employment, tourism, the school calendar, service frequency, fares, or demographic change without more evidence. Values in millions are reported trip quantities; percentages compare with the same month a year earlier.

The document identifies Metro’s data as supplied by Metro S.A. The August bulletin says there were no respondent revisions for the month. That note concerns revisions reported for the period; it is not a guarantee that every administrative record is forever final. The summary provides no sampling error rate or confidence interval for the series. Because the figure is supplied by the company and published by INE, this article retains that attribution and reported precision rather than presenting it as an independent estimate.

The publication places Metro among Chile’s monthly transport and communications statistics. The same bulletin also covers vehicle passages at toll plazas and motorway gantries, telecommunications, internet, and mail; these are separate indicators and do not belong in Metro’s passenger total. This article focuses on trips carried by Santiago’s network and its fare categories. A month-to-month comparison with July, an average per day, or a cumulative trend would require data that cannot be inferred from the summary. The reference period is August 2026, and the sources are INE’s official release and bulletin.

The distinction between level and rate of change also matters when reusing this series. The 60.3 million figure is a monthly level, while 3.9% is the year-over-year change in that level; they are not interchangeable measures. Segment growth rates alone also do not show how many additional trips each group contributed, because that calculation would require exact comparison bases. The bulletin provides summary figures, not fare-validation microdata or a causal explanation.