World population/Uruguay
South America
Population of Uruguay
3,382,539
Growing by 0.00 people every second
#134
world rank
0.04%
of world population
-0.07%
yearly change
-2,299
people this year
32,873
births a year
33,732
deaths a year
How the figure for Uruguay is worked out
The United Nations puts the population of Uruguay at 3,382,539 on 1 July 2026, and projects 3,380,240 for 1 July 2027. The counter above moves steadily between those two published points, which works out at about 0.00 people lost every second.
That places Uruguay at number 134 of the 237 countries and areas the United Nations reports, holding 0.04 per cent of everyone alive, and somewhere in the middle of the 14 entries in South America.
Underneath that single number sit roughly 32,873 births and 33,732 deaths a year. The gap between them is natural increase; the difference between natural increase and the change in total population is migration.
None of this is counted in real time. No country registers births and deaths as they happen and publishes them to the second. The seconds ticking above are arithmetic between two annual reference points, and the broad figure is far more reliable than its final digits.