Uruguay Economic Indicators

Uruguay exports mostly agricultural products. Shipments of meat, vegetables, rice and dairy products account for 52 percent of total exports. Main imports are: industrial supplies, crude and refined oil and machinery and equipment. Main trading partners are: Brazil (20 percent of total exports and 1...

The biggest sector of Uruguay´s economy is services. Financing, real estate, business, public and personal services, education and health; trade, repairs, restaurants and hotels and transport, communication and warehousing account for 55 percent of the GDP. Industry and mining create 26 percent of t...

The Central Bank of Uruguay reintroduced on September 3rd, 2020, the monetary policy rate after seven years of trying to control inflation through changes in the money supply. The central bank had abandoned the use of a single benchmark interest rate in 2013.

In Uruguay, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.