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

Sources: City Group eyes Uruguay's Rodriguez

Read: ESPN

2024-03-21

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

Uruguay signs Artemis Accords for responsible space exploration

Read: Space

2024-02-17

Fire Breaks Out Next to Uruguay's Main Airport

Read: Daily Telegraph

2024-02-08

The tale of Fornaroli and Suarez: Two kids from Salto, Uruguay

Read: ESPN

2024-01-10

Uruguay's green power revolution: rapid shift to wind shows the world how it's done

Read: The Guardian

2023-12-27

Metrics

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 7.87 % 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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Datasets

Source

SIPRI, World Bank

Updated: 8 days ago

License

CC BY 4.0

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