Uruguay
Oriental Republic of Uruguay
- Capital
- Montevideo
- Region
- South America
- Population, 2025
- 3.4 million
- Currency
- UYU
- Area
- 181,034 km²
Across Uruguay's 18 priced cities, one person needs about $1,679 a month, rent included; the average net salary is $1,206.
Livability
The same seven domains as for cities, scored at country level; safety falls back to the homicide rate where Numbeo has no survey.
63out of 100
- Purchasing power25%50
- Safety20%47
- Health care15%69
- Climate10%98
- Air quality10%97
- Connectivity10%77
- Cost10%38
How each domain is scored
- Purchasing power, 25%
- What a local net salary buys against local prices, as a percentile.
- Safety, 20%
- Numbeo safety index for the city, or for its country when the city has no survey.
- Health care, 15%
- Numbeo health care index, city first, then country.
- Climate, 10%
- Numbeo climate index where surveyed, otherwise a comfort score from NASA climate normals.
- Air quality, 10%
- 30-day mean US AQI on a 0-100 scale: 100 at AQI 25 or cleaner, 0 at 150 or worse.
- Connectivity, 10%
- Percentile of median fixed broadband download speed, city first, then country.
- Cost, 10%
- Cheaper places score higher: the percentile of the cost-of-living plus rent index, inverted.
- Livability rank among countries
- #49
What it costs
Averages over the country’s cities, weighted by population. New York = 100.
Cost of living index
62.2
New York = 100, rent excluded
Rent index
15.7
New York = 100
Purchasing power
82.1
New York = 100
One person
$1,679
A month, rent included
Net salary
$1,206
Average, a month after tax
Rent, one bedroom in the centre
$745
A month
Economy
World Bank development indicators; each figure is the latest year with data.
GDP per person
$25,216
2025
Growth
+1.8%
2025
Unemployment
7.5%
2025
Inflation
4.7%
2025
Life expectancy
78.3 years
2024
Internet users
92%
2024
Taxes
Headline rates side by side from three references, with the source of each.
- Top income tax rate
- 36%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Lowest income tax rate
- 0%
- SourceWikipedia
- Corporate tax
- 25%
- SourcePwC
- VAT or sales tax
- 22%
- SourcePwC
- Social security, employee
- 23.1%
- SourceTrading Economics
- Social security, employer
- 12.6%
- SourceTrading Economics
Headline statutory rates as of Sep 2026; brackets, allowances and regional taxes change what a given person pays.
Safety and internet
Numbeo’s crime survey, the World Bank homicide series and the Speedtest Global Index.
Safety
- Safety indexNumbeo, higher is safer
- 47.3
- Crime indexNumbeo, lower is better
- 52.7
- HomicidesPer 100,000 people, 2023
- 11.2
Internet
- Fixed downloadMbps, median, #35 worldwide
- 208
- Mobile downloadMbps, median
- —
- Change in a yearFixed download speed
- +12%
Cities in Uruguay
Sort by any column. Livability and cost use the same scales as every city page.
| 1Maldonado | 62 | 59.2 | $423 | $995 | 86.7 | 102K | Medium confidence, 16 contributors |
| 2Montevideo | 61 | 62.2 | $745 | $1,206 | 82.1 | 1.3M | High confidence, 75 contributors |
| 3Salto | 59 | 55.4 | $448 | $622 | 55.6 | 114.1K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 4Pando | 54 | 61.7 | $349 | — | — | 24K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 5Las Piedras | 53 | 55.5 | — | — | — | 69.7K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 6Mercedes | 53 | 57.6 | $572 | — | — | 43.5K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 7Durazno | 53 | 57.3 | — | — | — | 40.3K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 8San Carlos | 53 | 56.8 | — | — | — | 27.5K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 9San José | 53 | 59.6 | — | — | — | 35.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 10Libertad | 53 | 59.9 | — | — | — | 10.2K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 11Minas | 53 | 60.0 | — | — | — | 38.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 12Rivera | 53 | — | — | — | — | 84.8K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 13Paysandú | 53 | — | $548 | — | — | 81.6K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 14Tacuarembo | 53 | — | $299 | $866 | — | 60.6K | Low confidence, 3 contributors |
| 15Artigas | 53 | — | — | — | — | 43.9K | Low confidence, 1 contributors |
| 16Trinidad | 53 | 62.0 | — | — | — | 22.9K | Low confidence, 0 contributors |
| 17Colonia | 53 | 63.1 | $607 | — | — | 32.2K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 18Piriapolis | 53 | 59.3 | $721 | — | — | 8K | Low confidence, 4 contributors |
| 19Florida | 50 | 59.6 | $498 | $797 | 65.4 | 36.5K | Medium confidence, 5 contributors |
| 20Canelones | 50 | 60.0 | — | $890 | 68.0 | 24.2K | Low confidence, 2 contributors |
| 21Punta del Este | 48 | 57.6 | $1,099 | $1,083 | 63.0 | 9.3K | High confidence, 29 contributors |
| 22Atlantida | 46 | 57.9 | $664 | $521 | 38.9 | 5.6K | Medium confidence, 10 contributors |