Brazil vs Uruguay: Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people

Brazil

276.08 articles per million people

in 2023

Uruguay

312.81 articles per million people

in 2023

Brazil rank

69th

Uruguay rank

66th

Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people over time

Brazil
Uruguay

How they compare

Uruguay currently reports 312.81 articles per million people against 276.08 articles per million people in Brazil, a difference of 36.72 articles per million people.

That makes Uruguay's figure about 1.1 times Brazil's.

The two have swapped places 2 times across 28 shared years of data; in 1996 it was Uruguay ahead.

Brazil ranks 69th and Uruguay ranks 66th of 196 countries.

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About this data

Indicator: Annual articles published in scientific and technical journals per million people
Unit: articles per million people
Source: National Science Foundation Science and Engineering Indicators, via World Bank (2026); United Nations Population Division, national statistical offices, and Eurostat, via World Bank (2026) – processed
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 196 places, 5,488 data points, 1996–2023
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Scientific and technical journal articles per million people. Disciplines include physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics, clinical medicine, biomedical research, engineering and technology, and earth and space sciences.