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Put up to five countries side by side across every indicator. The leader in each row is marked — direction-aware, so “best” always means best.
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IndicatorURYUruguayLatin America & Caribbean
Governance
Civil liberties index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #12
Control of Corruption0-100 percentile78.8rank #19
Deliberative democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.78rank #10
Egalitarian democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.69rank #23
Freedom of expression index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #12
Government Effectiveness0-100 percentile64.8rank #54
Human rights index (V-Dem)0-10.93rank #12
Military spending% GDP2.3%rank #39
Participatory democracy index (V-Dem)0-10.72rank #2
Political Stability & Absence of Violence0-100 percentile87.7rank #9
Regulatory Quality0-100 percentile65.1rank #50
Rule of Law0-100 percentile73.3rank #42
Rule of law index (V-Dem)0-10.95rank #21
V-Dem electoral democracy0-10.86rank #8
V-Dem liberal democracy0-10.79rank #12
Voice & Accountability0-100 percentile78.3rank #23
Women in parliament% seats31.3%rank #64
Women's political empowerment index (V-Dem)0-10.88rank #31
Economy
Agricultural employment% employment8.1%rank #115
Agriculture value added% GDP6.4%rank #82
Annual working hours per workerhours1,481.1rank #120
Capital stock per worker2017 US$ per worker194,281.5rank #70
Current account balance% GDP-0.44%rank #44
Employment-to-population ratio%60.1%rank #68
FDI net inflows% GDP1.3%rank #61
GDPcurrent US$85.35Brank #83
GDP growth%1.8%rank #140
GDP per capita (nominal)current US$25,215.8rank #51
GDP per capita, PPP2021 intl $32,741.6rank #57
GNI per capita (PPP)2021 intl $28,649.8rank #60
Government expenditure% GDP36.5%rank #19
Gross capital formation% GDP16.2%rank #112
Gross savings% GDP15.5%rank #60
High-technology exports% manuf. exports9.8%rank #58
Human capital indexindex2.8rank #73
Industry value added% GDP16.9%rank #130
Inflation%4.7%rank #128
Labour force participation rate%65%rank #57
Personal remittances received% GDP0.18%rank #81
R&D expenditure% GDP0.7%rank #46
Researchers in R&Dper million937.6rank #14
Tax revenue% GDP17.9%rank #47
Total factor productivity (current PPPs, USA=1)index (USA=1)0.69rank #51
Trade openness% GDP49.7%rank #106
Unemployment% labor force7.5%rank #128
Unemployment rate (ILO modelled)%7.4%rank #129
Vulnerable employment% employment24.4%rank #81
Youth unemployment% ages 15-2425.1%rank #154
Youth unemployment rate (ILO modelled)% ages 15-2425%rank #151
Health
Basic drinking water access% pop99.6%rank #32
Basic sanitation access% pop99.2%rank #33
Child mortalityper 1000.74rank #35
Daily caloric supply per capitakcal3,322.7rank #48
DTP3 immunization coverage%94%rank #6
Health spending% GDP9%rank #44
Infant mortalityper 1k births6.2rank #31
Life expectancyyears78.3rank #65
Maternal mortalityper 100k15rank #15
Measles immunization% children97%rank #3
Measles (MCV1) immunization coverage%97%rank #3
Physiciansper 1k4.7rank #10
PM2.5 air pollution exposureug/m310.9rank #52
Road traffic deathsper 100k14.8rank #59
Smoking prevalence% adults19.3%rank #64
Suicide mortality rateper 100k24.8rank #174
Tuberculosis incidenceper 100k47rank #71
Under-5 mortality rateper 1k births7.4rank #57
Undernourishment% pop2.5%rank #1
Education
Adult literacy%98.9%rank #2
Education spending% GDP4.8%rank #35
Expected years of schoolingyears17.5rank #21
Mean years of schoolingyears10.5rank #80
Primary completion rate% relevant age101.2%rank #24
Primary enrollment% gross104.5%rank #43
Secondary enrollment% gross119.1%rank #13
Tertiary enrollment% gross80%rank #26
Demography
Crude birth rateper 1,0009.8rank #156
Fertility ratebirths/woman1.4rank #167
Median age of populationyears35.8rank #79
Net migration rateper 1,000-0.44rank #120
Populationpeople3.38Mrank #133
Population growth%-0.06%rank #173
Projected life expectancy in 2050 (medium)years82.3rank #70
Projected population in 2050 (medium)thousands3,254.4rank #139
Total age dependency ratioper 100 working-age52.7rank #131
Urban population%95.7%rank #6
Climate
CO₂ emissionst7.97Mrank #119
CO₂ per capitat2.4rank #117
Electricity access% pop100%rank #1
Electricity from coal% generation0%rank #1
Electricity from hydro% generation27.2%rank #29
Electricity from solar% generation5.1%rank #52
Electricity from wind% generation40.6%rank #3
Electric power consumptionkWh per capita3,789.8rank #59
Forest area% land12%rank #152
GHG emissions per capitatCO2e per capita10.5rank #161
Power-sector CO2 intensitygCO2/kWh80.4rank #10
Renewable electricity%97.8%rank #3
Renewable energy share%57.8%rank #38
Total GHG emissions incl. LULUCFMtCO2e35.5rank #88
Society
Asylum seekerspeople536rank #58
Extreme poverty% pop0.2%rank #2
Female labor participation%57.3%rank #64
Fixed broadband subscriptionsper 10033rank #40
Gender Development Indexratio1rank #11
Gender Inequality Index0-10.22rank #51
Gini indexindex40rank #12
Homicide rateper 100k11.2rank #65
Human Development Index0-10.86rank #38
Inequality-adjusted HDI0-10.75rank #43
Internet users% pop92%rank #45
Life satisfaction0-106.6rank #29
Planetary pressures-adjusted HDI0-10.8rank #4
Poverty gap at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #34
Poverty headcount at $2.15/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #12
Poverty headcount at $3.65/dayproportion (0-1)0rank #29
Poverty headcount at $6.85/dayproportion (0-1)0.03rank #66
Refugees hosted (by country of asylum)people3,195rank #110
Refugees originating (by country of origin)people126rank #33
Youth NEET rate%15.3%rank #74
Risk
Deaths in armed conflictsdeaths0rank #1
Hazard & exposure0-101.7rank #12
Human hazard & exposure0-100.5rank #6
INFORM risk score0-102.5rank #14
Lack of coping capacity0-103.1rank #23
Lack of infrastructure coping capacity0-101.2rank #9
Lack of institutional coping capacity0-104.6rank #25
Natural hazard & exposure0-102.8rank #15
Socio-economic vulnerability0-101.3rank #14
Vulnerability0-103.1rank #20
Vulnerable groups0-104.6rank #41
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