Uruguay

Religious Affiliation
Chart source: Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures Project, 2010
Total Population
3,469,551 1
Urban
95.30% 1
Rural
4.70% 1
Immigrants as % of Population
2.1% 2
Homicides
8.42 per 100,000 people (global median 6.9) 3
Level of Public Corruption
21 (1=lowest, 176=highest corruption) 4
Gender Equality in the Economy, Health, Education and Politics
91 (1=most equal, 144=least equal) 5
Fertility Rate
2.01 births per adult woman 6
Children Who Do Not Live to Age 5
1.00% 6
Life Expectancy at Birth
77 years 6
Adult Literacy Rate
98.07% 6
Internet Users
61% 6
Gross National Income per Capita
US$16,350 6
Population Living Below US$1.90 per Day
0.3% 6
  • 1 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.
  • 2 United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Trends in International Migrant Stock: The 2015 revision.
  • 3 United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Homicide Statistics 2015.
  • 4 Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2016.
  • 5 World Economic Forum, The Global Gender Gap Report, 2016.
  • 6 UNICEF, State of the World's Children, 2016.

These statistics are derived from the Vatican's official publication, Statistical Yearbook of the Church 2020 (Vatican City: Librera Editrice Vaticana, 2022). The numbers may differ from data reported by other sources on this site.

Baptized Catholics
2,718,000
Baptized Catholics as % of Total Population
76.98
Baptisms per Year (Under age 7)
11,687
Baptisms per Year (Over age 7)
1,883
First Communions per Year
5,929
Confirmations per Year
1,759
Students Enrolled in Catholic Primary Schools
34,421
Students Enrolled in Catholic Secondary Schools
26,784
Students Enrolled in Catholic Higher Education
1,863
Church Marriages per Year
1,375
Church Marriages in Which Both Spouses are Catholics
1,254
Priests
427
Women Religious (Nuns & Sisters)
614
Catholics per Priest
6,365
Parishes
236
Homes for Aged, Handicapped, Invalids
18