Uruguay
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Key facts
- Currency: Uruguayan peso
- Capital city: Montevideo
- Region: South America
- Continent: Americas
- Land area: 175,020 km²
- Population: 3,422,794
- Political Leader: Luis Lacalle Pou (President)
Latest news (see all)
Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking on his first tour of Europe
Read: Fox News
2024-04-12
Uruguayan singer-songwriter Jorge Drexler is embarking on his first tour of Europe
Read: Independent
2024-04-12
Clorox to Divest Operations in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
Read: The Wall Street Journal
2024-03-21
Clorox to Divest Operations in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay
Read: The Wall Street Journal
2024-03-21
Metrics
General information
Business
| Central government debt | 60.28 % of GDP |
| Expense | 34.62 % of GDP |
| GDP | 71,177,100,000.00 current US$ |
| Inflation | 9.10 annual % |
| Self-employed | 28.35 % of total employment |
| Tax revenue | 18.52 % of GDP |
| Unemployment | 8.39 % of total labor force |
| Vulnerable employment | 24.75 % of total employment |
Environment
| Agricultural land | 140,696.00 km² |
| Alternative and nuclear energy | 14.75 % of total energy use |
| Carbon Dioxide Emissions (CO2) | 6,514.30 kt |
| Electricity production from coal sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from natural gas sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from hydroelectric sources | 60.16 % of total |
| Electricity production from nuclear sources | 0.00 % of total |
| Electricity production from oil sources | 11.44 % of total |
| Electricity production from renewable sources, excluding hydroelectric | 28.40 % of total |
| Net energy imports | 44.43 % of energy use |
| Fertility rate | 1.49 births per woman |
| Forest area | 20,520 km² |
| Fossil fuel energy consumption | 46.27 % of total |
| Other greenhouse gas emissions, HFC, PFC and SF6 | 861.99 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Median age | 31.50 years |
| Methane emissions | 20,393.60 kt of CO2 equivalent |
| Nitrous oxide emissions | 7,967.68 thousand metric tons of CO2 equivalent |
| Female Population | 1,764,421 |
| Male Population | 1,658,372 |
| Renewable energy consumption | 61.09 % of total final energy consumption |
| Rural land area | 173,707.00 km² |
| Rural population | 147,591 |
| Urban land area | 1,017.87 km² |
| Urban population | 3,275,203 |
| Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters | 1.90 % of total population |
Health
| Birth rate | 10.47 per 1,000 people |
| Death rate | 12.16 per 1,000 people |
| Health expenditure per capita | 1,429.51 current US$ |
| Health expenditure | 9.15 % of GDP |
| Incidence of HIV | 0.27 per 1,000 uninfected population |
| Hospital beds | 2.43 per 1,000 people |
| Life expectancy at birth | 75 years |
| Suicide mortality rate | 21.20 per 100,000 population |
Other
| Access to electricity | 100.00 % of population |
| Individuals using the Internet | 89.87 % of population |
| Net migration | -1,500 |
| Press freedom | 4.87 |
Politics
| Armed forces personnel | 22,000 |
| Democracy score | 8.38 |
| Democracy type | Full democracy |
| Military expenditure | 1.90 % of GDP |
| Proportion of seats held by women in national parliaments | 25.25 % |
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SIPRI, World Bank, Reporters Without Borders
Updated: 1 day ago
