Country or area · South America · Latin America and the Caribbean · Americas · UN WPP 2024

Uruguay population

Uruguay population now

3,381,976

A projection read at this second, not a count: the UN's totals for 1 January 2026 and 2027, joined by a straight line. 95% range for 31 December 2026: 3.4–3.4 million.

Mid-2023, UN estimate: 3,388,080

Year: 2026; projection · medium
Population, mid-2026: 3.38253 million; 95% range, 31 Dec: 3.4–3.4 million
Median age: 37.7
Aged 65+: 16.5%

Move through time, 1950–2100

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male female projection · one cell = 500 people

How to read this: one row for each age, newborns at the bottom; men on the left, women on the right.

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries

URY · 1950–2100 · in brief

Uruguay in numbers

3,388,080 people lived in Uruguay in mid-2023: 0.04% of the world's people, and the 134th-largest population of the 236 countries and areas the UN reports. That is 1.5 times its 1950 population of 2.2 million.

Its population peaked in 2020 at 3.4 million and has been falling since. The UN's medium projection has 2.2 million in 2100. The projection is uncertain: on 1 January 2100 the UN's 95% range runs from 1.2 million to 3.8 million.

Births stay ahead of deaths until 2024; in the medium projection, deaths are ahead every year after it. Deaths also outnumbered births in 2021–2022.

The median age was 27.8 in 1950 and 36.8 in 2023; the projection has 55.1 in 2100. 15.8% of people were 65 or older in 2023, against 37.5% projected for 2100. The working-age population (15–64) is projected to peak in 2032 at 2.2 million.

Among countries it ranks 134th in 2023, 139th in 2050 and 141st in 2100. In the medium projection it overtakes Croatia in 2049. It is overtaken by Namibia in 2030, Qatar in 2032 and the Gambia in 2034.

Population, mid-2023: 3,388,080
Rank by population, 2023: 134 of 236
Share of the world, 2023: 0.04%
Change in a year, mid-2022 to mid-2023: −0.08% · −2,833 people
People per km² of land, 2023: 19
Land area, 2023: 175,020 km²
Births, 2023: 33,443
Deaths, 2023: 33,145
Net migration, 2023: −1,501
Children per woman, 2023: 1.41
Median age, 2023: 36.8 years
Life expectancy at birth, 2023: 78.1 years
In a city, 2025: 53 of every 100
Population, mid-1950: 2,234,412
Projected, mid-2050: 3,254,354
Projected, mid-2100: 2,245,886

URY · 1950–2100 · total population

Population, 1950–2100

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estimate projection, up to the bottom of the 95% range 95% range medium projection. Each column is the population on 1 January of one year; the paper rules cut it into equal cells.

Show the numbers: Uruguay, 1950–2100

Uruguay: population on 1 January, births, deaths, fertility and life expectancy, 1950–2100
Year	Kind	Population, 1 Jan	95% range	Births	Deaths	Children per woman	Life expectancy
1950	estimate	2,224,133		46,859	24,041	2.69	65.6
1951	estimate	2,244,690		47,581	23,974	2.70	65.8
1952	estimate	2,268,146		48,526	23,992	2.72	66.1
1953	estimate	2,294,071		49,515	24,049	2.74	66.3
1954	estimate	2,322,028		50,538	24,105	2.76	66.5
1955	estimate	2,351,710		51,107	24,156	2.76	66.7
1956	estimate	2,382,357		52,349	24,239	2.79	66.9
1957	estimate	2,414,379		53,126	24,333	2.80	67.1
1958	estimate	2,447,162		53,929	24,429	2.81	67.3
1959	estimate	2,480,577		54,469	24,537	2.82	67.5
1960	estimate	2,513,713		55,145	24,707	2.83	67.7
1961	estimate	2,546,202		55,888	24,914	2.85	67.8
1962	estimate	2,577,887		56,601	25,159	2.87	67.9
1963	estimate	2,608,708		57,224	25,400	2.88	68.0
1964	estimate	2,638,824		56,991	25,652	2.86	68.1
1965	estimate	2,667,537		56,726	25,920	2.84	68.2
1966	estimate	2,694,802		56,464	26,171	2.82	68.3
1967	estimate	2,720,489		55,921	26,407	2.78	68.4
1968	estimate	2,744,065		55,776	26,672	2.77	68.5
1969	estimate	2,765,147		55,829	27,024	2.77	68.6
1970	estimate	2,782,800		55,983	27,247	2.77	68.7
1971	estimate	2,798,813		55,993	27,412	2.77	68.9
1972	estimate	2,814,111		56,415	27,520	2.78	69.2
1973	estimate	2,829,178		58,017	27,805	2.85	69.3
1974	estimate	2,845,089		60,347	28,124	2.96	69.5
1975	estimate	2,862,799		61,802	28,408	3.02	69.7
1976	estimate	2,881,841		61,829	28,630	3.00	69.9
1977	estimate	2,900,944		60,056	28,737	2.90	70.1
1978	estimate	2,917,979		58,925	28,848	2.83	70.3
1979	estimate	2,933,451		56,841	29,383	2.71	70.3
1980	estimate	2,946,355		54,629	29,177	2.59	70.5
1981	estimate	2,957,551		53,800	28,834	2.53	71.0
1982	estimate	2,968,941		53,651	28,428	2.51	71.5
1983	estimate	2,982,043		53,423	29,277	2.49	71.6
1984	estimate	2,995,514		53,379	29,696	2.47	71.7
1985	estimate	3,009,462		53,639	29,653	2.47	71.9
1986	estimate	3,024,612		53,968	29,464	2.47	72.2
1987	estimate	3,041,077		54,701	30,231	2.49	72.2
1988	estimate	3,058,716		55,479	30,406	2.50	72.4
1989	estimate	3,077,207		55,742	30,418	2.50	72.6
1990	estimate	3,095,302		55,664	29,966	2.48	73.0
1991	estimate	3,113,504		55,574	30,153	2.45	73.2
1992	estimate	3,131,203		55,526	30,679	2.43	73.2
1993	estimate	3,148,200		55,455	31,241	2.41	73.2
1994	estimate	3,164,491		56,276	31,639	2.42	73.2
1995	estimate	3,181,176		56,114	31,244	2.40	73.5
1996	estimate	3,197,704		55,527	30,894	2.36	73.8
1997	estimate	3,214,944		54,878	31,140	2.33	73.9
1998	estimate	3,231,746		53,676	31,559	2.27	74.0
1999	estimate	3,246,813		53,307	31,464	2.25	74.3
2000	estimate	3,261,218		52,104	31,042	2.20	74.7
2001	estimate	3,271,195		51,388	30,659	2.16	75.0
2002	estimate	3,277,308		51,296	31,222	2.16	75.0
2003	estimate	3,280,425		50,121	31,492	2.12	75.1
2004	estimate	3,281,947		49,503	31,435	2.09	75.3
2005	estimate	3,284,348		49,602	30,675	2.10	75.8
2006	estimate	3,287,194		48,781	30,997	2.07	75.9
2007	estimate	3,291,819		48,151	30,729	2.05	76.2
2008	estimate	3,298,486		47,714	30,874	2.03	76.3
2009	estimate	3,305,869		47,428	30,481	2.02	76.7
2010	estimate	3,314,313		47,277	31,046	2.01	76.7
2011	estimate	3,322,847		46,748	31,813	1.99	76.6
2012	estimate	3,330,802		47,390	31,868	2.01	76.7
2013	estimate	3,340,000		47,959	31,639	2.03	77.0
2014	estimate	3,350,674		47,778	31,538	2.03	77.2
2015	estimate	3,361,995		48,169	31,976	2.04	77.3
2016	estimate	3,374,039		46,383	32,377	1.97	77.3
2017	estimate	3,384,527		43,058	32,148	1.82	77.6
2018	estimate	3,392,348		39,673	32,350	1.68	77.5
2019	estimate	3,396,720		37,009	33,136	1.57	77.5
2020	estimate	3,397,691		35,383	31,337	1.50	78.4
2021	estimate	3,400,245		34,209	39,831	1.45	75.4
2022	estimate	3,393,144		33,767	36,731	1.43	76.5
2023	estimate	3,388,682		33,443	33,145	1.41	78.1
2024	estimate	3,387,479		33,196	33,637	1.40	78.3
2025	projection	3,385,696	3.4–3.4 million	32,993	33,674	1.39	78.5
2026	projection	3,383,680	3.4–3.4 million	32,873	33,731	1.38	78.6
2027	projection	3,381,394	3.4–3.4 million	32,787	33,766	1.38	78.8
2028	projection	3,379,087	3.3–3.4 million	32,733	33,811	1.38	79.0
2029	projection	3,376,694	3.3–3.4 million	32,670	33,864	1.38	79.1
2030	projection	3,374,161	3.3–3.4 million	32,680	33,926	1.38	79.3
2031	projection	3,371,614	3.3–3.4 million	32,604	33,990	1.39	79.4
2032	projection	3,368,944	3.3–3.4 million	32,535	34,079	1.39	79.6
2033	projection	3,366,136	3.3–3.5 million	32,463	34,160	1.39	79.8
2034	projection	3,363,161	3.2–3.5 million	32,361	34,255	1.39	79.9
2035	projection	3,360,010	3.2–3.5 million	32,174	34,369	1.40	80.1
2036	projection	3,356,554	3.2–3.5 million	31,965	34,480	1.40	80.3
2037	projection	3,352,793	3.2–3.5 million	31,739	34,603	1.40	80.4
2038	projection	3,348,671	3.2–3.5 million	31,477	34,758	1.40	80.6
2039	projection	3,344,175	3.2–3.5 million	31,187	34,895	1.41	80.7
2040	projection	3,339,156	3.1–3.5 million	30,886	35,056	1.41	80.9
2041	projection	3,333,761	3.1–3.5 million	30,543	35,235	1.42	81.0
2042	projection	3,327,831	3.1–3.5 million	30,166	35,435	1.42	81.2
2043	projection	3,321,439	3.1–3.5 million	29,767	35,608	1.42	81.3
2044	projection	3,314,428	3.0–3.6 million	29,332	35,817	1.42	81.5
2045	projection	3,306,787	3.0–3.6 million	28,984	36,058	1.42	81.6
2046	projection	3,298,564	3.0–3.6 million	28,608	36,256	1.42	81.8
2047	projection	3,289,835	3.0–3.6 million	28,245	36,459	1.43	81.9
2048	projection	3,280,473	2.9–3.6 million	27,826	36,687	1.43	82.1
2049	projection	3,270,536	2.9–3.6 million	27,392	36,901	1.43	82.2
2050	projection	3,259,966	2.9–3.6 million	26,940	37,116	1.44	82.3
2051	projection	3,248,743	2.9–3.6 million	26,440	37,309	1.44	82.5
2052	projection	3,236,825	2.8–3.6 million	25,941	37,474	1.44	82.6
2053	projection	3,224,244	2.8–3.6 million	25,417	37,658	1.44	82.8
2054	projection	3,210,955	2.8–3.6 million	24,849	37,841	1.44	82.9
2055	projection	3,196,913	2.7–3.6 million	24,331	37,989	1.44	83.0
2056	projection	3,182,211	2.7–3.6 million	23,892	38,153	1.45	83.2
2057	projection	3,166,888	2.7–3.6 million	23,494	38,329	1.45	83.3
2058	projection	3,151,079	2.6–3.6 million	23,149	38,476	1.45	83.4
2059	projection	3,134,777	2.6–3.6 million	22,874	38,647	1.45	83.6
2060	projection	3,117,970	2.6–3.6 million	22,682	38,802	1.46	83.7
2061	projection	3,100,822	2.5–3.6 million	22,558	38,917	1.46	83.8
2062	projection	3,083,454	2.5–3.6 million	22,461	39,056	1.47	84.0
2063	projection	3,065,871	2.5–3.7 million	22,389	39,128	1.47	84.1
2064	projection	3,048,145	2.4–3.7 million	22,293	39,245	1.47	84.2
2065	projection	3,030,239	2.4–3.7 million	22,175	39,371	1.47	84.3
2066	projection	3,012,102	2.4–3.7 million	22,052	39,503	1.47	84.5
2067	projection	2,993,775	2.3–3.7 million	21,944	39,610	1.47	84.6
2068	projection	2,975,228	2.3–3.7 million	21,815	39,717	1.47	84.7
2069	projection	2,956,394	2.3–3.7 million	21,662	39,857	1.47	84.8
2070	projection	2,937,251	2.2–3.7 million	21,497	39,963	1.48	85.0
2071	projection	2,917,865	2.2–3.7 million	21,391	40,054	1.48	85.1
2072	projection	2,898,306	2.2–3.7 million	21,208	40,112	1.48	85.2
2073	projection	2,878,479	2.1–3.7 million	20,994	40,207	1.48	85.3
2074	projection	2,858,461	2.1–3.7 million	20,801	40,281	1.48	85.5
2075	projection	2,838,055	2.1–3.7 million	20,576	40,378	1.49	85.6
2076	projection	2,817,419	2.0–3.7 million	20,336	40,450	1.49	85.7
2077	projection	2,796,445	2.0–3.7 million	20,107	40,524	1.49	85.8
2078	projection	2,775,162	2.0–3.7 million	19,820	40,605	1.49	86.0
2079	projection	2,753,556	1.9–3.7 million	19,575	40,672	1.49	86.1
2080	projection	2,731,602	1.9–3.7 million	19,296	40,756	1.49	86.2
2081	projection	2,709,307	1.9–3.7 million	19,032	40,817	1.49	86.3
2082	projection	2,686,728	1.8–3.7 million	18,757	40,859	1.49	86.4
2083	projection	2,663,851	1.8–3.7 million	18,497	40,882	1.50	86.5
2084	projection	2,640,696	1.8–3.7 million	18,256	40,885	1.50	86.7
2085	projection	2,617,318	1.7–3.7 million	18,003	40,871	1.50	86.8
2086	projection	2,593,657	1.7–3.7 million	17,755	40,866	1.50	86.9
2087	projection	2,569,776	1.6–3.7 million	17,510	40,821	1.50	87.0
2088	projection	2,545,722	1.6–3.7 million	17,274	40,756	1.50	87.1
2089	projection	2,521,516	1.6–3.7 million	17,048	40,660	1.50	87.2
2090	projection	2,497,171	1.5–3.8 million	16,835	40,536	1.50	87.3
2091	projection	2,472,777	1.5–3.8 million	16,635	40,368	1.50	87.4
2092	projection	2,448,290	1.5–3.8 million	16,474	40,173	1.51	87.5
2093	projection	2,423,907	1.4–3.8 million	16,327	39,922	1.51	87.7
2094	projection	2,399,592	1.4–3.8 million	16,201	39,686	1.51	87.8
2095	projection	2,375,460	1.3–3.8 million	16,076	39,415	1.51	87.9
2096	projection	2,351,418	1.3–3.8 million	15,951	39,117	1.51	88.0
2097	projection	2,327,600	1.3–3.8 million	15,828	38,810	1.52	88.1
2098	projection	2,303,958	1.2–3.8 million	15,727	38,492	1.52	88.2
2099	projection	2,280,499	1.2–3.8 million	15,624	38,140	1.52	88.3
2100	projection	2,257,335	1.2–3.8 million	15,498	37,750	1.52	88.5

Show the numbers: Uruguay, mid-2026, by single year of age

Uruguay: population by single year of age, mid-2026
Age	Male	Female
0	16,792	15,946
1	16,842	15,990
2	16,945	16,078
3	17,079	16,198
4	17,252	16,375
5	17,656	16,754
6	18,370	17,400
7	19,459	18,404
8	20,995	19,844
9	22,674	21,444
10	23,914	22,666
11	24,203	22,998
12	24,084	22,938
13	23,922	22,825
14	23,559	22,520
15	23,477	22,480
16	23,606	22,588
17	23,652	22,600
18	23,732	22,683
19	23,877	22,850
20	24,101	23,080
21	24,138	23,129
22	24,120	23,150
23	24,423	23,472
24	24,606	23,674
25	24,674	23,766
26	24,997	24,104
27	25,215	24,343
28	25,404	24,570
29	25,626	24,877
30	25,696	25,007
31	25,680	24,982
32	25,351	24,629
33	25,002	24,258
34	24,859	24,090
35	24,697	23,922
36	24,514	23,764
37	24,228	23,520
38	23,728	23,036
39	23,068	22,412
40	22,456	21,896
41	21,947	21,514
42	21,530	21,258
43	21,202	21,144
44	20,857	21,072
45	20,667	21,090
46	21,010	21,534
47	21,684	22,279
48	22,144	22,806
49	22,541	23,275
50	22,713	23,462
51	22,222	22,881
52	21,239	21,804
53	20,232	20,759
54	19,667	20,082
55	19,368	19,787
56	19,024	19,699
57	18,722	19,604
58	18,512	19,586
59	18,401	19,708
60	18,309	19,805
61	18,121	19,801
62	17,884	19,742
63	17,433	19,462
64	16,775	18,972
65	16,080	18,462
66	15,408	17,993
67	14,800	17,596
68	14,190	17,188
69	13,561	16,748
70	12,858	16,215
71	12,166	15,682
72	11,481	15,152
73	10,728	14,506
74	9,994	13,836
75	9,292	13,182
76	8,608	12,538
77	7,995	12,056
78	7,500	11,796
79	6,970	11,370
80	6,382	10,747
81	5,822	10,142
82	5,286	9,546
83	4,780	8,980
84	4,300	8,444
85	3,838	7,917
86	3,387	7,390
87	2,950	6,860
88	2,533	6,328
89	2,138	5,792
90	1,768	5,238
91	1,428	4,664
92	1,124	4,082
93	863	3,518
94	650	2,996
95	482	2,524
96	352	2,102
97	253	1,731
98	178	1,398
99	122	1,104
100+	214	2,966

URY · 1950–2100 · every age, every year

Uruguay, every age in every year

Each column is a year and each row an age; the denser the ink in a cell, the more people. Everyone born in the same year climbs one 45° diagonal, so famines, baby booms and migration show up as streaks. Select a cell to follow its generation.

URY · ages 15–64

Who does the work in Uruguay

On the UN's projection, Uruguay will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2032: 2,247,000 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 2,219,250.

100 aged 15–64

29 children

24 aged 65+

aged 15–64 children under 15 aged 65 and over

How to read this: the orange squares are 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023, and the rows below are how many children (teal) and how many people aged 65 or older (violet) lived alongside them.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 2 years: 2032–2033.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100 the same, projected 50 or more

How to read this: the strip runs 1950 to 2100. Coloured years are the ones with under 50 dependants for every 100 people aged 15–64; grey years are the rest, and a hatched year has not happened yet.

How every country compares

URY · arrivals minus departures

Who arrives in Uruguay, and who leaves

In 2020–2025 Uruguay loses 1,448 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 264 a year more leaving than arriving.

one square = 50 people a year

020406080+

more arrive than leave more leave than arrive

How to read this: left to right is age, from babies to 100. Blue squares above the line are ages at which more people arrive than leave; orange squares below it, ages at which more leave than arrive. These are the UN's projection for 2020–2025. There is no record of migration by age before 2020.

Its best and worst years between 1950 and 2023: a gain of 3,985 (1957), and a loss of 17,105 (2003).

In 2024, 160,064 people living in Uruguay had been born in another country, 5 of every 100 people there, against 3 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

URY · births by the mother's age · 1950–2100

Who has the babies in Uruguay

Of every 100 babies born in Uruguay in 2023, 9 had a mother under 20, 71 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 20 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 13 under 20 and 13 aged 35 or older.

1950
13 · 74 · 13

2023
9 · 71 · 20

2050 · projected
3 · 61 · 36

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: each block is 100 babies born in that year, one square each, coloured by how old the mother was. The numbers under a block are the three groups, youngest mothers first.

Babies born, 2023: 33,443
Average age when women have a baby: 29.2 years; 27.6 in 1950
Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19: 26; 61 in 1950

Babies by the mother's age, 1950–2100

Babies born in Uruguay by the mother's age
Mother's age	1950	1975	2000	2023	2050 projected	2100 projected
10–14	91	149	191	37	4	1
15–19	6,069	8,344	8,183	3,020	885	311
20–24	14,735	17,866	13,340	7,038	3,540	1,856
25–29	12,530	16,232	12,541	8,272	5,153	3,663
30–34	7,208	10,619	10,938	8,321	7,793	4,840
35–39	4,496	6,459	5,372	5,339	7,669	3,861
40–44	1,593	1,953	1,399	1,332	1,809	916
45–49	135	178	138	84	87	50
50–54	2	2	2	0	0	0
All babies	46,859	61,802	52,104	33,443	26,940	15,498

The UN's births for each year, split by the mother's age in the UN's own proportions.

URY · healthy years · 2021

Years in good health in Uruguay

In Uruguay, WHO puts the healthy years a newborn could expect in 2021 at 65.0 (95% range 64.3–65.7), out of 75.0 in all. The years in less than full health come to 10.0, above the world's 9.5.

Women

66.9 in full health, 11.8 not: 78.7 years

Men

63.1 in full health, 8.1 not: 71.2 years

a year in full health a year in less than full health

How to read this: each square is a year of life, each row ten years; filled squares are years in full health, rounded to whole years.

Women: 66.9 healthy years of 78.7. Men: 63.1 of 71.2. In 2019, before the pandemic, the healthy years were 66.8.

URY · forced from home · end of 2025

Displacement in Uruguay

At the end of 2025, Uruguay was hosting 51,316 people who had crossed a border into it, about 15 of every 1,000 people living there.

hosted from abroad51,316
Uruguay nationals abroad662

stayed inside their own country crossed a border

How to read this: count the squares — 1,000 people each, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Uruguay living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 16,521 people asked for asylum in Uruguay for the first time; 174 people from Uruguay asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Uruguay whose claims were decided that year, 7 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

URY · of every 100 people

How people live in Uruguay

Of every 100 people in Uruguay in 2025, 53 lived in a city, 34 in a town or suburb and 13 in the countryside.

cities towns and suburbs rural areas

Nearly everyone has electricity at home (2024). 8 of every 100 do not use the internet (2024).

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every 100th person, coloured by where they live, as the key says. The same rule is used in every country.

How the world's people live

URY · adults 25 and over · 2020

How far people in Uruguay went in school

Of every 100 adults in Uruguay in 2020, 1 never went to school and 34 finished upper secondary or went further.

1 never went to school 8 some primary 32 finished primary 25 finished lower secondary 21 finished upper secondary 13 studied after school

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2030; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2060.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

URY · cities · 2025

Cities in Uruguay

Uruguay had 7 cities in 2025, home to 1.8 million people. The largest, Montevideo, holds 37 of every 100 people in Uruguay.

Montevideo1,240,244
Las Piedras103,682
Maldonado102,414
Salto94,454
Ciudad de la Costa92,062
Paysandú81,290
Rivera72,321

How to read this: the 7 biggest cities here in 2025, drawn on a single scale so the bars can be compared. Each is a built-up area on the UN's rule rather than a city government's patch.

All the world's cities

Apparatus

Sources and method

Every figure on this page comes from the UN's World Population Prospects 2024: the annual country tables (estimates to 2023, projections with 95% intervals from 2024), and the population by single year of age and sex for the pyramid.

The censuses, surveys and registers behind the UN's estimates for Uruguay are listed, source by source, on the UN's own data sources page.

Sources: UN WPP 2024 · World Bank · UNHCR · country code lists · UN WUP 2025 · Wittgenstein Centre · WHO GHO · flag-icons · Natural Earth. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →

Checked before it was drawn

Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries The pyramid for every year was checked against the published total. What that stamp counts, and what every page here has to pass before it can be built: how this site checks its figures.