Uruguay

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Economy

GDP per person $25,216 (2025)
GDP per person, price-adjusted $38,315 (2025)
Economic growth +1.8% (2025)
Unemployment 7.5% (2025)
Inflation +4.8% (2024)
Exports 28.2% (2024)
Income per person $28,567 (2023)
Household wealth 87.7 (2016)
Poorer households 0.0% (2016)
Wealth inequality 0.00 (2016)

People

Population 3.39 million (2023)
Population growth −0.06% (2025)
Births per woman 1.40 (2024)
Typical age 35.8 (2023)
Living in cities 95.7% (2025)
Human Development Index 0.862 (2023)
Women’s vs men’s development 1.017 (2023)
People per household 3.5 (2016)
People over 65 13.0% (2017)
Children under 15 24.1% (2017)
Women’s age at first marriage 24.1 (2017)

Health

Life expectancy 78.1 (2023)
Child deaths (under 5) 7.4 (2024)
Mothers dying in childbirth 15 (2023)
Health spending per person $2,076 (2023)
Measles vaccination 97% (2024)
Overweight adults 67.6% (2022)
Homes with piped water 96.8% (2016)
Homes with a flush toilet 87.7% (2016)

Education

Years of schooling 10.5 (2023)
Expected years in school 17.5 (2023)
Secondary school enrollment 119.1% (2023)
Education spending 4.5% (2022)
Teens in school 82.1% (2017)

Environment

CO₂ per person 2.35 (2024)
Total CO₂ emissions 7.97 million (2024)
Forest cover 12.0% (2023)
Air pollution (PM2.5) 11.9 (2024)
Renewable energy share 57.8% (2021)
Average temperature 17.0 (2022)

Energy

Technology

Internet users 92.0% (2024)
Mobile phone subscriptions 139.8 (2022)
Home broadband 33.5 (2022)
Homes with internet 63.6% (2016)
Homes with a mobile phone 86.4% (2016)

Food and farming

Hunger 2.5% (2023)
Cereal yield 4,594 (2023)
Farmland 81.4% (2023)
Jobs in farming 8.1% (2025)

Government

Electoral democracy 0.86 (2025)
Human rights 0.93 (2025)
Control of corruption +1.56 (2025)
Women in parliament 31.3% (2025)
Military spending 2.3% (2024)
Clean government 74.9 (2022)