Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Uruguay

17.3% of people in Uruguay lived below the national poverty line in 2024.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2022 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Uruguay, 2024 17.3% % of population
Change from 2023 −2.4percentage points 2023: 19.7%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Uruguay over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2022 to 2024
Period Uruguay
2024 17.3%
2023 19.7%
2022 9.9%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −2.4 percentage points from 19.7% in 2023.
  • Since 2022, when it was 9.9%, the figure has changed by +7.4 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2022 to 2024 for Uruguay
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources