Latin America & Caribbean · Partial data: missing GF10, GF0107
Data checked 28 Oct 2026 · next scheduled check 1 Jan 2027 · UN World Population Prospects (via World Bank) released 1 Jul 2026 · World Bank WDI released 8 Oct 2026
Total spending · 2024
31.1%
+5.0 pts since 1995
Welfare · 2024
Not available
Healthcare · 2024
Not available
Defence · 2024
1.96%
-0.8 pts since 1995
Education · 2024
Not available
Debt interest · 2024
Not available
Gross debt · 2025
65.6%
of GDP · +41 pts since 1999
Population · 2025
3.4m
6.1% since 1995
Public-sector employment
Not available: no official public-sector employment series is loaded for Uruguay yet.
Not available: general-government welfare (COFOG 10) and COFOG debt transactions (01.7). No matching official observation was found in the sources checked; narrower-sector or differently defined figures are not substituted.
Healthcare fell from 3.8% to 3.5% of GDP between 2000 and 2005, then rose to 6.5% by 2023.
Defence fell from 2.7% to 1.6% of GDP between 1995 and 2012, then rose to 2.3% by 2025.
Education fell from 2.5% to 2.1% of GDP between 1995 and 2003, then rose to 4.8% by 2023.
Total spending rose from 26.2% to 32.8% of GDP between 1995 and 2020, then fell to 31.1% by 2024.
Gross debt rose from 24.1% to 91.9% of GDP between 1999 and 2003, then fell to 65.6% by 2025.
Population grew from 3.2 million in 1995 to 3.4 million in 2025; the UN projects 3.3 million by 2050.