Uruguay
population: Natl annual projection (30 Jun 2025) · indicators as of 2026-09-05 · 9 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography9 metros
Uruguay metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Hover for rank, click to open the metro page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 9 tracked metros
| Metro | State | Tier | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #251 | Montevideo★ Capital▲ Largest | Montevideo | 2.0M | 11.0 | Regional Hub |
| #1754 | Maldonado | Maldonado | 195K | 0.6 | Local Metro |
| #2478 | Rivera | Rivera | 109K | 0.3 | Local Metro |
| #2555 | Melo | Cerro Largo | 90K | 0.3 | Local Metro |
| #3420 | Salto | Salto | 134K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
| #3433 | Colonia del Sacramento | Colonia | 131K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
| #3491 | Paysandú | Paysandú | 120K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
| #3658 | Tacuarembo | Tacuarembó | 93K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
| #4173 | Trinidad (URU) | Flores | 27K | 0.0 | Local Metro |
🗂️ Departments
19 entries listed under Uruguay. Click any to see its metros and footprint.
📋 At a glance
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso (UYU)
- Government
- Participatory democracy
- Legislature
- General Assembly of Uruguay
- Constitution
- 1966, 12 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Uruguayan
- Time zone
- UTC−03:00
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +598
- Internet TLD
- .uy
- ISO 3166
- UY
- Established
- 1825
- Highest point
- Cerro Catedral (514 m (1,686 ft))
- National anthem
- National Anthem of Uruguay
Facts via Wikidata.
📰 In the news1 story
The Athletic · 23 Jun 2026
Cape Verde stun Uruguay at first World CupFurther reading from the day's section on world cup upsets.
💹 Economy and developmentHigh income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
Alliances & Organisations3 full memberships
Full memberDashed border = Candidate / ApplicantItalic = Dialogue / Observer
🏛️ Leadership History17 leaders · click to expand
marks a leader associated with atrocities or defiance of law, systemic subversion of democratic institutions, or a criminal conviction. Convictions arising from political persecution, and annulled convictions, are excluded. denotes a monarch. These are editorial designations, applied per entry rather than derived automatically.
Broad Front Era
Yamandú Orsi✦ Current
2025–PresentPresident
Tabaré Vázquez
2015–2020President
José Mujica
2010–2015President
Tabaré Vázquez
2005–2010President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Yamandú Orsi✦ Current | President | 2025–Present |
| Tabaré Vázquez | President | 2015–2020 |
| José Mujica | President | 2010–2015 |
| Tabaré Vázquez | President | 2005–2010 |
Democratic Era
Luis Lacalle Pou
2020–2025President
Jorge Batlle
2000–2005President
Julio María Sanguinetti
1995–2000President
Luis Alberto Lacalle
1990–1995President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Luis Lacalle Pou | President | 2020–2025 |
| Jorge Batlle | President | 2000–2005 |
| Julio María Sanguinetti | President | 1995–2000 |
| Luis Alberto Lacalle | President | 1990–1995 |
Redemocratization
Julio María Sanguinetti
1985–1990President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| Julio María Sanguinetti | President | 1985–1990 |
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
⚠️ Juan María Bordaberry
1972–1985President
Luis Batlle Berres
1947–1972President
Gabriel Terra
1931–1947President
José Batlle y Ordóñez
1903–1931President
Lorenzo Latorre
1876–1903President
Venancio Flores
1865–1876President
Manuel Oribe
1835–1865President
Fructuoso Rivera
1830–1835President
| Name | Role | Years |
|---|---|---|
| ⚠️ Juan María Bordaberry | President | 1972–1985 |
| Luis Batlle Berres | President | 1947–1972 |
| Gabriel Terra | President | 1931–1947 |
| José Batlle y Ordóñez | President | 1903–1931 |
| Lorenzo Latorre | President | 1876–1903 |
| Venancio Flores | President | 1865–1876 |
| Manuel Oribe | President | 1835–1865 |
| Fructuoso Rivera | President | 1830–1835 |
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The powerline is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Conflicts since 19453 interstate wars · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paraguayan War● | 1864–1870 | Paraguay | — |
| Uruguayan War | 1864–1865 | Empire of Brazil,Colorados | — |
| Platine War | 1851–1852 | Argentine Confederation,Blancos | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.”
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Uruguay: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
Tap or drag across the chart to read any year: the estimate to 2023, then the UN median, its bands and the scenarios.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Show all 16 decades
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires2 · $2.2B combined · click to expand
| # | Name | Net worth | Industry |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3288 | Sergio Fogel | $1.1B | Finance & Investments |
| 3294 | Andres Bzurovski Bay | $1.1B | Finance & Investments |
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Uruguay on the international stage. Click a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by Uruguay's national teams, newest first. 17 in total.
Show all 17 titles
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2011-07-24 | Uruguay | Copa América |
| 1995 | 1995-07-23 | Uruguay | Copa América |
| 1987 | 1987-07-12 | Uruguay | Copa América |
| 1983 | 1983-11-04 | Uruguay | Copa América |
| 1967 | 1967-02-02 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1959 | 1959-12-22 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1956 | 1956-02-15 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1950 | 1950-07-16 | Uruguay | World Cup |
| 1942 | 1942-02-07 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1935 | 1935-01-27 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1930 | 1930-07-30 | Uruguay | World Cup |
| 1926 | 1926-11-01 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1924 | 1924-11-02 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1923 | 1923-12-02 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1920 | 1920-10-03 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1917 | 1917-10-14 | Uruguay | South American Championship |
| 1916 | 1916-07-17 | Uruguay | South American Championship |