Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay
Uruguay: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 56.2% in 2024. ▼ Falling
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay, 2006–2024
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
In 2024, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay stood at 56.2%.
That represents a change of down 4.3% on the previous year and down 0.1% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay peaked at 78.4% in 2006 and was at its lowest, 54.3%, in 2017.
Uruguay ranks 82nd of 120 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 19 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 73.4% | 68.3% | 78.4% | 4 |
| 2010s | 58.4% | 54.3% | 67.7% | 10 |
| 2020s | 58.9% | 56.2% | 60.5% | 5 |
Countries ranked near Uruguay
More poverty & inequality data for Uruguay
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 9 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.41 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 5,058 kg per hectare (2024)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 25.9% (2021)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.218 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 18.5% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.1027 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.1027 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1186 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.2514 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Uruguay was 56.2% in 2024, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Uruguay?
- The highest recorded value was 78.4% in 2006.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Uruguay?
- The lowest recorded value was 54.3% in 2017.
- How does Uruguay rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Uruguay ranks 82nd out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Uruguay?
- Over the last ten years it is down 0.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Uruguay data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $30 per day.