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Uruguay

3,384,688

Latest official population · 2025

Annual change-1.9K2024 to 2025
Growth since 2000+3.6%from 3.27M
Life expectancy78.3 years2024
Fertility rate1.40births per woman · 2024
Urban population95.7%2025
RegionLatin America & Caribbean High income

A country at every age

How Uruguay is shaped by age.

Most people are in the working ages, with the younger and older generations shaping what comes next.

Latest shared source year: 2025
Ages 0–1417.9%Children and early teens
Ages 15–6465.8%Working-age population
Ages 65+16.3%Older population

The population pulse

How the population changes.

Births and deaths show natural change. Migration shows how movement across borders also changes the population.

Birth rate9.8births per 1,000 · 2024
Death rate9.9deaths per 1,000 · 2024
Natural balance-0.1births minus deaths per 1,000
Net migration-1.34Knet people estimate · 2025

UN medium projection

What could Uruguay look like in 2050?

If current demographic patterns evolve along the UN's medium scenario, the population could be 3.25M in 2050—3.9% smaller than the 2024 UN estimate.

A projection is a scenario, not a prediction or live count.
  1. 20243.39M
  2. 20503.25M
  3. 21002.25M
Median age in 205045.2years
Births in 205026.94Kduring the year
Deaths in 205037.12Kduring the year
Life expectancy82.3years in 2050

Long view

Population through time

Official World Bank annual observations, shown at decade intervals with the latest published year.

  1. 19602.53M
  2. 19702.79M
  3. 19802.95M
  4. 19903.1M
  5. 20003.27M
  6. 20103.32M
  7. 20203.4M
  8. 20253.38M
SourceWorld Bank Open DataPopulation total · SP.POP.TOTL
Latest population year2025Official annual observation
Future sourceUN WPP 2024Medium projection · 2024–2100
DeliveryReliable snapshotChecked 9/22/2026

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