Uruguay
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Population
- 3.4 m
- Area
- 181,034 km²
- Region
- South America
- Languages
- Spanish
- Currency
- Uruguayan peso ($)
- Demonym
- Uruguayan
- UN member
- Yes
Gross Domestic Product — the total market value of all goods and services produced in a year, at current prices.
GDP divided by population — a rough measure of average economic output per person.
Years a newborn would live if current mortality patterns held throughout its life.
Gross expenditure on research & development as a share of GDP.
Full-time-equivalent researchers per million people.
Total natural-resource rents (oil, gas, mineral, forest) as a share of GDP.
From the Charrua of the Banda Oriental and a contested frontier between the Spanish and Portuguese empires to Artigas and the Thirty-Three Orientals, the 1828 buffer state between Argentina and Brazil, the reforms of Batlle y Ordonez, the dictatorship of 1973-1985, and a stable, progressive democracy.
Pilot a cinematic, sourced journey through its eras — moment by moment.