🇺🇾 Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
Every statistic we track for Uruguay — 155 indicators, each with its latest value and world rank. Open the interactive profile →
$39,030
77.3 yrs
6.63
0.79
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All indicators
📈 Economy
👥 Demographics
| Fertility Rate (WB) | 1.4 | #178/217 | 2024 |
| Gender Inequality Index | 0.2 | #117/172 | 2023 |
| Median Age | 36.7 | #95/235 | 2026 |
| Population | 3.4 | #134/229 | 2013 |
| Population | 3.5 | #126/191 | 2026 |
| Population Density | 19.5 | #203/235 | 2026 |
| Refugees by Country of Origin | 126 | #146/195 | 2025 |
| Urban Population | 95.6% | #17/213 | 2024 |
🌐 Connectivity
| Access to Electricity | 100% | #118/214 | 2024 |
| Broadband Internet at Home (AmericasBarometer) | 70.5% | #6/18 | 2025–2026 |
| Internet Users | 92% | #47/182 | 2024 |
| Mobile Subscriptions | 139.8 | #36/209 | 2022 |
🫀 Health
🎓 Education
| Adult Literacy | 98.9% | #5/31 | 2023 |
| Education Spending (QoG) | 4.8% | #34/112 | 2023 |
| ICILS Computational Thinking, Grade 8 | 421.1 | #21/21 | 2023 |
| ICILS Computer and Information Literacy, Grade 8 | 447.1 | #24/32 | 2023 |
| Mean Years of Schooling | 8.8 | #89/146 | 2020 |
| PISA Mathematics Score | 409 | #54/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Reading Score | 430 | #43/79 | 2022 |
| PISA Science Score | 435 | #45/79 | 2022 |
🌱 Environment
| CO₂ per Capita (WB) | 2.6 | #101/203 | 2024 |
| Energy Use per Person | 1,772 | #63/149 | 2023 |
| Environmental Performance Index | 44.1 | #98/179 | 2024 |
| Renewable Electricity | 98.9% | #9/195 | 2024 |
🏛️ Governance
📰 Media & news
| Press Freedom Index | 68.7 | #48/177 | 2026 |
🛡️ Safety
| Feel Unsafe in the Neighbourhood (AmericasBarometer) | 34.9% | #15/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Global Peace Index | 1.8 | #113/160 | 2025 |
| Homicide Rate | 8.2 | #63/204 | 2023 |
| Road Traffic Deaths | 13 | #90/195 | 2021 |
| Trust in the Police (AmericasBarometer) | 57.4% | #7/20 | 2025–2026 |
⚠️ Risk & resilience
| Climate Seen as a Threat | 94.5% | #13/142 | 2023 |
| Confident Can Protect Family | 52.3% | #49/142 | 2023 |
| Disaster Exposure (WRI) | 1.6 | #85/193 | 2026 |
| Experienced a Disaster | 33.1% | #44/142 | 2023 |
| Experienced Discrimination (Skin Colour) | 6.1% | #73/139 | 2023 |
| INFORM Risk Index | 2.5 | #156/191 | 2025 |
| Resilience to Risk (WRP) | 54.7 | #60/141 | 2023 |
| World Risk Index | 5.1 | #87/193 | 2026 |
| Worry About Violent Crime | 69% | #72/142 | 2023 |
😊 Wellbeing
| Happiness (Cantril Ladder) | 6.6 | #31/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Freedom | 1.1 | #23/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: GDP | 1.7 | #52/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Generosity | 0.1 | #109/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Healthy Life Expectancy | 0.5 | #86/146 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Low Corruption | 0.2 | #35/147 | 2025 |
| Happiness Driver: Social Support | 1.5 | #24/147 | 2025 |
| Human Development Index | 0.9 | #49/193 | 2023 |
🧭 Attitudes & values
| Attended a Demonstration | 18.5% | #18/151 | 2017 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Effective | 74.9% | #112/143 | 2018 |
| Believe Vaccines Are Safe | 72.4% | #93/143 | 2018 |
| Individualism | 36 | #38/65 | 2010 |
| Interpersonal Trust (Latinobarómetro) | 20% | #5/17 | 2024 |
| Left–Right Self-placement | 5.4 | #28/53 | 2011–2024 |
| Masculinity | 38 | #52/65 | 2010 |
| People in the Neighbourhood Are Trustworthy (AmericasBarometer) | 74.8% | #3/20 | 2025–2026 |
| Power Distance | 61 | #32/65 | 2010 |
| Secular Values | 0.4 | #32/64 | 2022 |
| Self-Expression Values | 0.6 | #9/64 | 2022 |
| Signed a Petition | 30.4% | #26/121 | 2017 |
| Trade Union Membership | 10.7% | #61/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in government | 5.1 | #39/123 | 2017 |
| Trust in parliament | 4.9 | #59/151 | 2017 |
| Trust in political parties | 4.2 | #39/120 | 2017 |
| Trust in Science | 80.3% | #45/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in Scientists | 69.8% | #64/143 | 2018 |
| Trust in the legal system | 5.1 | #71/153 | 2017 |
| Uncertainty Avoidance | 100 | #4/65 | 2010 |
| Voting Makes a Difference | 82.7% | #2/54 | 2011–2024 |
| Who Is in Power Makes a Difference | 70.5% | #24/51 | 2011–2021 |
Latest available period per indicator. The rank counts down from the highest value, whatever that means for the series: on child mortality or extreme poverty the country at #1 is the worst in the world, not the best. Sources are credited on each indicator page.