Political Stability - Governance score (0-100) (Political score 0-100) in Uruguay

Uruguay: Political Stability - Governance score (0-100) (Political score 0-100) was 88.39 0-100 in 2025. ▲ Rising

Latest (2025)
88.39 0-100
Change on year
down 0.1%
World rank
15th
of 208 countries
All-time high
88.48 0-100
in 2024
All-time low
74.56 0-100
in 2004
Years of data
27
1996–2025

Political Stability - Governance score in Uruguay, 1996–2025

0204060801996201020251996: 77 0-1001998: 80.4 0-1002000: 80.3 0-1002002: 79.7 0-1002003: 77.9 0-1002004: 74.6 0-1002005: 80 0-1002006: 83.7 0-1002007: 84.5 0-1002008: 84.4 0-1002009: 83.8 0-1002010: 81.3 0-1002011: 82 0-1002012: 81.2 0-1002013: 82 0-1002014: 84.9 0-1002015: 84.7 0-1002016: 85.4 0-1002017: 85.1 0-1002018: 85.2 0-1002019: 85.9 0-1002020: 85.6 0-1002021: 85.6 0-1002022: 88.3 0-1002023: 86.5 0-1002024: 88.5 0-1002025: 88.4 0-100

Source: The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG). Measured in 0-100.

Analysis

Uruguay recorded 88.39 0-100 for political stability - governance score in 2025.

That represents a change of down 0.1% on the previous year and up 4.3% over ten years.

Over the whole period, political stability - governance score in Uruguay peaked at 88.48 0-100 in 2024 and was at its lowest, 74.56 0-100, in 2004.

That places Uruguay 15th out of 208 countries with data for 2025, putting it in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 27 years of available data.

Political Stability - Governance score (0-100) (Political score 0-100) in Uruguay, year by year

Annual values for Political Stability - Governance score (0-100) in Uruguay, 1996 to 2025.
Year 0-100 Change
1996 77.02 0-100 —
1998 80.38 0-100 +4.4%
2000 80.32 0-100 -0.1%
2002 79.67 0-100 -0.8%
2003 77.88 0-100 -2.3%
2004 74.56 0-100 -4.3%
2005 80.01 0-100 +7.3%
2006 83.74 0-100 +4.7%
2007 84.45 0-100 +0.9%
2008 84.4 0-100 -0.1%
2009 83.82 0-100 -0.7%
2010 81.31 0-100 -3.0%
2011 81.97 0-100 +0.8%
2012 81.22 0-100 -0.9%
2013 81.99 0-100 +0.9%
2014 84.93 0-100 +3.6%
2015 84.74 0-100 -0.2%
2016 85.39 0-100 +0.8%
2017 85.1 0-100 -0.3%
2018 85.19 0-100 +0.1%
2019 85.85 0-100 +0.8%
2020 85.58 0-100 -0.3%
2021 85.56 0-100 -0.0%
2022 88.34 0-100 +3.3%
2023 86.46 0-100 -2.1%
2024 88.48 0-100 +2.3%
2025 88.39 0-100 -0.1%

Uruguay compared with similar countries

  • Uruguay's 88.39 0-100 is above the median for high income countries, which is 79.93 0-100, 1.1× the median. (76 countries reporting)
  • Uruguay's 88.39 0-100 is above the median for Latin America & Caribbean, which is 72.01 0-100, 1.2× the median. (37 countries reporting)

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 78.7 0-100 77.02 0-100 80.38 0-100 2
2000s 80.98 0-100 74.56 0-100 84.45 0-100 9
2010s 83.77 0-100 81.22 0-100 85.85 0-100 10
2020s 87.14 0-100 85.56 0-100 88.48 0-100 6

Countries ranked near Uruguay

  1. 12 Singapore 88.99 0-100 compare
  2. 13 Iceland 88.76 0-100 compare
  3. 14 Tonga 88.64 0-100 compare
  4. 16 Palau 88.37 0-100 compare
  5. 17 Barbados 88.05 0-100 compare
  6. 18 Aruba 87.78 0-100 compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is political stability - governance score in Uruguay?
Political stability - governance score in Uruguay was 88.39 0-100 in 2025, according to The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG).
What is the highest political stability - governance score recorded in Uruguay?
The highest recorded value was 88.48 0-100 in 2024.
What is the lowest political stability - governance score recorded in Uruguay?
The lowest recorded value was 74.56 0-100 in 2004.
How does Uruguay rank for political stability - governance score?
Uruguay ranks 15th out of 208 countries with data for 2025.
Is political stability - governance score rising or falling in Uruguay?
Over the last ten years it is up 4.3%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Uruguay data come from?
The figures come from The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG), published as part of Political Stability - Governance score (0-100). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
Political Stability - Governance score (0-100)
Unit
0-100
Source
The Worldwide Governance Indicators: Revised Methodology for Measuring Governance Using Perception Data., World Bank Group (WBG)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
208 places, 5,485 data points, 1996–2025
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Political Stability (PV) captures perceptions of the extent to which political power and governance are secure from destabilization, and of the likelihood that authority will be challenged or altered through violent, coercive, or unconstitutional means. Governance score is a linear transformation of the governance estimate using hypothetical worst-case and base-case countries. It is an absolute score ranging from 0-100. Larger values correspond to better governance. The (country-series-time) metadata include the (a) number of sources, and (b) confidence intervals (lower and upper bound). The number of sources indicates the number of underlying data sources on which the governance score (respectively the underlying governance estimate) is based. The confidence intervals include the lower and upper bound of the 90% confidence interval for the governance score. Confidence intervals are a statistical range of values that likely contain the true value (of what is being estimated).