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Strategic Position Score

How well-positioned is this nation for the next 10 years — combining demographics, resources, stability, education, technology, and geopolitics.

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82
Demographics
34
Resources
88
Stability
84
Education
45
Technology
30
Geopolitics
🇺🇾Uruguay
Overall Score
67
Save Difficulty
Medium

Key driver/drag compare this nation's own metrics against each other, not a trend over time. Metrics marked live are fetched from the World Bank; derived, curated, and beta-estimated values are labeled throughout.

Global Media Signal

Media attention and tone history are not available for this country yet.

Market Pulse

Equity, currency & commodity signals

stable
Equity 1D+0.4%
Equity 5D+0.4%
Equity 1M-3.6%
Currency 1D-0.3%
Currency pressurestable
Commodity tailwind+10%
Global regime:Dollar Pressure

Global markets are showing dollar-pressure signals as gold has outpaced oil.

National Momentum

6767
Economy 5954
Governance 6767
Quality of Life 7782
Innovation 4245
Stability 9088

Category deltas are illustrative baselines. Real historical data for individual metrics is shown in the charts within each category section below.

Opportunity Index

If you had to put your money somewhere — open a business, emigrate, or invest — where would this nation rank?

57
Start a Business
Government effectiveness + economic growth
84
Emigrate To
Quality of life + stability
59
Invest In
Economy + innovation + stability

Assets · Risks · Opportunities · Threats

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Leadership

Current
Yamandú Orsi
President · 2025–present
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Former leaders
José MujicaPresident · 2010–2015
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LLM Insights

Predictive Analytics
Transition Risk Prediction

Forecasts how smoothly a leadership or policy transition would go, based on institutional stability and current momentum.

Resilience baselineMomentum trendGovernance scoreCrisis history
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🛡Geopolitical Risk Score

Ongoing risk signal blending external threats, alliance exposure, and shock sensitivity.

Active threatsBloc exposureShock scenariosDefense posture
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📉Stability Erosion Detection

Surfaces gradual drift across categories that wouldn't trip a hard alert on its own.

Category driftMomentum deltasQuality-of-life trendFiscal trend
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🏛Institutional Bottleneck Mapping

Identifies where governance gaps or reform friction are slowing this nation's progress.

Reform difficultyGovernance scoreRisk countLegacy constraints
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🤝Strategic Opportunity Detection

Recommends where this nation has the most upside, based on its own opportunity index.

Opportunity indexAsset strengthsUntapped verticalsBloc adjacency
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Policy Gap Detection

Flags policy or structural gaps that could expose this nation to compliance, fiscal, or reputational risk.

Threat countRegime constraintsFiscal exposureTreaty coverage
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Insights are derived from this nation's own resilience, momentum, SWOT, and opportunity data — not a live model call.

Resilience

58
Pandemic71

Healthcare, fiscal health, government effectiveness

Banking Crisis53

Fiscal health, government effectiveness, economy

War / Conflict52

Military score, stability, alliance membership

Natural Disaster55

Fiscal health, food self-sufficiency, government effectiveness

Shock-response scores derived from this nation's own metrics (healthcare, fiscal health, military, food self-sufficiency, etc.), not from any actual crisis event.

AI Readiness

61.55
AdvancedGlobal rank #55 / 195
Policy Capacity
62
Governance
85
AI Infrastructure
57
Public Sector Adoption
83
Development & Diffusion
31
Resilience
52

AI Strengths

  • Governance
  • Public Sector Adoption

What this country is ready for

AI Gaps

  • Resilience
  • Development & Diffusion

What may hold it back

Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index 2025 · 6 pillars · 14 dimensions · 69 indicators

Nation Profile

Geography

Area
175,020 km²
Population
3.4M
Density
19.3/km²
Coastline
Coastal access

Political System

Government Type
Presidential Republic
Regime (derived)
Democracy
Elections
Multi-party elections

Main Industries

AgricultureLivestockSoftwareRenewable Energy

Energy

Oil
Natural Gas
Coal
Nuclear
🟡Hydropower
🟡Solar
Wind

Strategic Resources

Lithium
Rare Earths
🟡Copper
Iron
🟡Gold
Silver
🟡Fresh Water

Food Capacity

Arable Land
33.2%
Food Exports
43
Self-Sufficiency
57

Industries and government type are best-effort curated facts. Energy/resource tiers, food capacity, and military figures are curated estimates. Area and population are sourced from World Bank (periodically refreshed).

Live Situation

No recent news events tracked for this country yet.

Global Influence

Mercosur
Diplomatic Relations
44
Governance Score
72
Share of Tracked GDP
0.1%

Bloc membership: curated fact. Diplomatic relations: bilateral partner count via Wikidata. Governance Score: World Bank WGI composite (effectiveness, anti-corruption, rule of law), scaled 0–100. "Share of Tracked GDP" is this nation's estimated GDP as a share of the 203 nations in this dataset — not a true world-GDP share.

Military

42
Active Personnel
22K
Reserve Personnel
Tanks
62
Aircraft
43
Naval Assets
16
Aircraft Carriers
0
Overseas Bases
Nuclear Weapons
No

Personnel from World Bank / IISS. Equipment (tanks, aircraft, naval) from GlobalFirepower. Nuclear status and carrier counts are verified public record. Overseas bases are estimates.

Economy

54
▲ Key driverUnemployment (8.2%)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPublic Spending (17.2% of GDP)· as of 2024

Growth

Inflation

Fiscal Health

Labor Market

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Governance

67
▲ Key driverCorruption Control (78.8)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragRegulatory Quality (65.1)· as of 2024

Government Effectiveness

Rule of Law

Dispute Resolution

Corruption

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Quality of Life

82
▲ Key driverUniversity Graduation (80.0%)· as of 2023
▼ Key dragPISA Score (437.7)· as of 2020

Safety

Healthcare

Education

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Innovation

45
▲ Key driverInternet Penetration (92.0%)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPatents (6.791496337907061 per million)· as of 2017

Tech

Connectivity

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Stability

88
▲ Key driverPolitical Violence Control (87.7)· as of 2024
▼ Key dragPolitical Violence Control (87.7)· as of 2024

Political Stability

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Historical Trends

World Bank
Data coverage: 27 live·2 derived·0 curatedLast refreshed: Jul 4, 2026Methodology: Reconstructable
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