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Uruguay — GDP growth
GDP Growth (Annual %) for Uruguay, 1961–2025.
Latest value · 2025
1.78%
GDP Growth (Annual %) · annual % · -28.4% since 1961
GDP growth for Uruguay was 1.78% in 2025, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 65 years, from 1961 to 2025. The highest recorded value was 8.81% in 1986. The lowest was -10.27% in 1983 (about -5.8× the latest value). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.52% per year.
Uruguay ranks 153 of 212 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 72%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 3.38%, so Uruguay sits below it. It peaked in 1986 and has fallen 80% since. Over the last decade (2015–2025) the figure moved up 381%.
Key figures
Latest (2025)
1.78%
First (1961)
2.49%
Change
-28.4%
Highest
8.81%
in 1986
Lowest
-10.27%
in 1983
Average
2.20%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.52%
Years of data
65
Recent years
| Year | annual % |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1.78% |
| 2024 | 3.33% |
| 2023 | 0.76% |
| 2022 | 4.61% |
| 2021 | 5.84% |
| 2020 | -7.36% |
| 2019 | 0.93% |
| 2018 | 0.16% |
| 2017 | 1.74% |
| 2016 | 1.69% |
| 2015 | 0.37% |
| 2014 | 3.24% |
Reading this correctly. Annual percentage growth rate of GDP at constant market prices. A negative value means the economy contracted that year. Figures are in annual %. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG — GDP Growth (Annual %). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.