Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- Region
- Americas · South America
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Population
- 3,384,688 (2025)
- Government
- presidential republic
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso (UYU)
- Official languages
- Spanish
- Spoken languages
- Spanish (official, Rioplatense is the most widely spoken dialect)
- Written scripts
- Latin
- Area
- 181,034 km²
- Coastline
- Coastal
- UN member
- Yes
- Affiliations
- IMF, Mercosur, WCO, WTO
- Borders
- Argentina , Brazil
Political stability
88 / 100
Economic stability
53 / 100
Population stability
65 / 100
0–100, higher is more stable. Political: World Bank governance score. Economic: government effectiveness, regulatory quality, and inflation proximity to 2% (World Bank). Population: stability of growth and net migration rates (World Bank).
Trade profile
- Key exports
- wood pulp, beef, milk, rice, wood (2023)
- Key imports
- crude petroleum, refined petroleum, cars, trucks, fertilizers (2023)
- Natural resources
- arable land, hydropower, minor minerals, fish
- Primary route
- Atlantic services to Europe and North America
- Secondary route
- Asia services via the Panama Canal or Cape of Good Hope
The xin.bz view
- Uruguay can benefit from Southern Cone moisture gains, becoming a source of replacement agricultural supply.
xin.bz coverage
El Niño: What the Media Has Wrong — and What It Means for Global Trade
The 2026–27 El Niño is on track to be one of the strongest on record. A quarter-by-quarter outlook of where supply falls, where it rises, and which trade corridors cannot adjust fast enough.
El Niño Is Reordering South America's Export Map
El Niño makes South America the world's replacement supplier — record Brazilian crops, Argentine rainfall gains, Peru's fishmeal shock, and the logistics that decide who can move it.
Trade research
- WTO trade profile — tariffs, trade in goods and services, top partners
- World Bank country data — GDP, trade share of GDP, logistics indicators
- OEC trade profile — export/import composition and partners, visualized
- ITC Trade Map — detailed trade statistics by product (ITC/UN Comtrade)
- CIA World Factbook — geography, economy, transportation infrastructure
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Sources: mledoze/countries (ODbL), CIA World Factbook (public domain), World Bank Open Data (CC BY-4.0), flag-icons (MIT). Stability scores are xin.bz composites of the cited World Bank indicators; routes and commodity notes are xin.bz assessments. Informational only — verify with official sources.