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Uruguay
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Population as of 2020: 3.5 million 129 of 193
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Region: South America
Nominal G.D.P. in 2024: $80.96 billion 79 of 193
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Reported customs-area merchandise exports in 2024: $10.25 billion. 82 of 193
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(customs-area exports; includes shipments to Uruguay’s own free zones and excludes free-zone-origin exports)
Calendar-year 2024 goods exports, excluding services. Amounts are nominal U.S. dollars, with no inflation adjustment. Export values are free on board (FOB).
(Shipments to Uruguay’s own free zones account for 19.87% of this series. They are domestic free-zone shipments counted as customs exports, not identified final foreign destinations.)
Top Exports
Top 20 export categories within the customs-area series, 2024
Ranked by export value within the stated restricted series. Unspecified commodities are included when ranked.
| Rank | Item | Dollar amount | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meat of bovine animals; frozen | $1.54 billion | Meat |
| 2 | Soya beans, whether or not broken | $1.21 billion | Oil seeds and other seeds |
| 3 | Wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared | $982.76 million | Wood and wood articles |
| 4 | Milk and cream; concentrated or containing added sugar or other sweetening matter | $597.41 million | Dairy products, eggs and honey |
| 5 | Rice | $557.19 million | Cereals |
| 6 | Meat of bovine animals; fresh or chilled | $458.31 million | Meat |
| 7 | Vehicles; for the transport of goods | $423.71 million | Road vehicles and parts |
| 8 | Wheat and meslin | $360.90 million | Cereals |
| 9 | Bovine animals; live | $303.05 million | Live animals |
| 10 | Malt; whether or not roasted | $286.01 million | Milling products |
| 11 | Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or finger-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6mm | $182.59 million | Wood and wood articles |
| 12 | Plastic articles for the conveyance or packing of goods; stoppers, lids, caps and other closures of plastics | $180.26 million | Plastics and plastic articles |
| 13 | Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies; fresh, chilled or frozen | $163.73 million | Meat |
| 14 | Electrical energy | $133.57 million | Mineral fuels and oils |
| 15 | Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats | $126.90 million | Animal and vegetable fats and oils |
| 16 | Medicaments in measured doses or retail packs | $108.60 million | Pharmaceutical products |
| 17 | Margarine and other edible mixtures or preparations of fats and oils | $107.22 million | Animal and vegetable fats and oils |
| 18 | Cheese and curd | $104.16 million | Dairy products, eggs and honey |
| 19 | Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood | $86.85 million | Wood and wood articles |
| 20 | Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared | $85.52 million | Hides, skins and leather |
10 largest disclosed foreign destination economies within this series, 2024
(Disclosed foreign destination economies only; 19.91% of this customs-area series is assigned to Uruguay’s own free zones or unspecified areas. Those values remain in the total. Shipments to domestic free zones are excluded from this foreign-destination ranking and are not reassigned to final foreign destinations.)
| Rank | Country | Dollar amount |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brazil | $2.06 billion |
| 2 | China | $1.39 billion |
| 3 | United States (including Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) | $955.47 million |
| 4 | Argentina | $547.24 million |
| 5 | Turkey | $302.76 million |
| 6 | Netherlands | $245.89 million |
| 7 | Algeria | $201.91 million |
| 8 | Mexico | $170.53 million |
| 9 | Chile | $162.55 million |
| 10 | Paraguay | $122.73 million |
