Country scorecard
Uruguay
South America · 3.4M people
ALPS
1.09
languages per person
#201 of 235 most multilingual
GLCI
9%
globally connected
Largely monolingual — the average person here speaks 1.1 languages.
Most connected partners
Where a random person from Uruguay is most likely to share a language — the pair GLCI.
What people speak
Share of the population with at least conversational (A2+) command.
- Spanish99%
- English10%
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