Uruguay · Income · 2026 data

Am I rich in Uruguay?

Enter your household's monthly income. See how it compares to the published medians, and what that actually means.

UYU
Data: INE Uruguay · Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH), Ingresos de los Hogares y de las Personas, Trimestre 2 2026 (Cuadros 1-5); Indicadores de la distribución del ingreso, Año 2025 · income year 2026, survey wave 2026
Your income vs the national median
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Your household earns 1× the median household income Uruguay. The statistics office publishes medians and means, not decile cutoffs, so this page tells you where you stand against the real middle rather than inventing a percentile.

  • Right at the national median of UYU 74.500.
  • UYU 22.397 below the mean of UYU 96.897.
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Same income, different region

Medians and means differ sharply between the capital and the rest of the country.

Region
Median household / mo
Your income vs the region median
Montevideo
UYU 90.000
0Median
Whole country
UYU 74.500
0Median
Interior (rest of the country)
UYU 67.000
0Median
The bar shows your income against each region's median household income (the notch marks the median, the right edge is twice it). No per-region percentiles are claimed because regional decile data is not published.
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What the numbers actually say

Useful framings, not slogans.

Half of households Uruguay live on UYU 74.500 a month or less.
That is the published median from the national household survey.
The mean income (UYU 96.897) runs 30% above the median.
High incomes pull the average up; the median is the honest middle.
The median household in the capital earns 1.3× the rest of the country.
UYU 90.000 against UYU 67.000 a month.
Per person, the median is UYU 29.250 a month.
Household income divided by the number of members.
The top 10% live on 12,4 times the bottom 10%'s income.
The statistics office's D10/D1 ratio for 2025.
Income inequality: Gini 0,404 in 2025.
The scale runs from 0 (everyone equal) to 1 (one person takes all).
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