Uruguay's ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) was US$1.5 billion in 2025, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 242.06% from US$439.12 million in 2015 (13.09% a year on average, compounded).
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | US$1.5 billion | 2025 |
| Five years earlier | US$1.03 billion | 2020 |
| Ten years earlier | US$439.12 million | 2015 |
| Highest | US$1.5 billion | 2025 |
| Lowest | US$26.44 million | 2003 |
| Average since 2016 | US$1.08 billion | 2016–2025 |
| First recorded | US$66.8 million |
What the numbers say
In 2025, Uruguay's ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) rose 1% on 2024 (from US$1.49 billion to US$1.5 billion).
Across the 29 yearly changes before that (1996 to 2024), the average change was +17.1% and a typical year strayed about 47.4% from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 230.8% in 2004 and the biggest yearly fall was 34.8% in 2000. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2016 to 2025 the straight-line trend is upward, about US$107.38 million a year. A straight line explains 91% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about US$1.91 billion for 2028. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2023 to 2025 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was US$49.72 million, against US$187.71 million for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2025, Uruguay had the 58th highest value of the 130 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | US$1.5 billion | 2025 |
| World | US$1.28 trillion | 2024 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | US$19.95 billion | 2024 |
| High income | US$1.08 trillion | 2025 |
Closest to Uruguay in the 2025 ranking
- Latvia — 54th of 130: US$1.78 billion
- Armenia — 55th of 130: US$1.77 billion
- South Africa — 56th of 130: US$1.71 billion
- Bahrain — 58th of 130: US$1.42 billion
- Slovenia — 59th of 130: US$1.38 billion
- Kazakhstan — 60th of 130: US$1.36 billion
What this measures
Information and communication technology service exports include computer and communications services (telecommunications and postal and courier services) and information services (computer data and news-related service transactions). Data are in current U.S. dollars.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a sum.
All 31 values
| Year | ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,502,039,581 |
| 2024 | 1,487,495,160 |
| 2023 | 1,397,515,310 |
| 2022 | 1,274,635,120 |
| 2021 | 980,333,904 |
| 2020 | 1,025,064,823 |
| 2019 | 1,050,211,984 |
| 2018 | 879,226,200 |
| 2017 | 804,848,140 |
| 2016 | 422,147,731 |
| 2015 |
ICT service exports (BoP, current US$) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — US$6.62 million (2025)
- Argentina — US$2.92 billion (2025)
- Aruba — US$19.77 million (2023)
- Barbados — US$3.44 million (2017)
- Belize — US$123.3 million (2025)
- Bolivia — US$41.65 million (2025)
- Brazil — US$7.44 billion (2025)
- Chile — US$764.07 million (2025)
- Colombia — US$2.29 billion (2025)
- Costa Rica — US$2.67 billion (2025)
- Curaçao
More infrastructure data for Uruguay
- Fixed telephone subscriptions — 1.21 million (2024)
- Fixed telephone subscriptions (per 100 people) — 35.62 (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions — 4.93 million (2024)
- Mobile cellular subscriptions (per 100 people) — 145.5 (2024)
- Patent applications, nonresidents — 401 (2024)
- Patent applications, residents — 13 (2024)
- Industrial design applications, nonresident, by count — 67 (2024)
- Industrial design applications, resident, by count — 9 (2024)
- Medium and high-tech exports (% manufactured exports) — 27.83% (2024)
- Individuals using the Internet (% of population)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Uruguay's ICT service exports (BoP, current US$)?
- US$1.5 billion in 2025, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1995?
- It is up 2,149% from US$66.8 million in 1995 (10.93% a year on average, compounded). The highest value was US$1.5 billion in 2025 and the lowest US$26.44 million in 2003.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator BX.GSR.CCIS.CD, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Balance of Payments Statistics Yearbook and data files, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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