Uruguay on the 12 axes
MLPGFree-Market CosmopolitanOpen markets, open minds, open borders for ideas.Uruguay is typed MLPG, the Free-Market Cosmopolitan. Authority leans Democratic, backed by a Liberal Democracy Index of 0.79 and judicial constraints on the executive of 0.95, both on a 0-1 scale (2025). Morality leans Progressive and Religion leans Secular, with the state separated from religion (2025) and same-sex marriage legal (2026). Foreign policy leans Cooperation and Culture leans Multicultural. Security leans Liberty, even though the prison population is 449 per 100,000 people (2024). Ownership, Structure and Trade sit at the centre.
Colombia is the closest country at 88%. Both lean Democratic, Progressive and Multicultural, but Colombia is milder on Authority and Culture and sits at the centre on foreign policy. See how its politicians and historical figures compare on the page, or take the test to see how close you are to this profile.
Where Uruguay sits
- PublicPrivate
- 02Markets+25PlannedFree
- SharedSelf-reliant
- 04Authority-90DemocraticStrong leader
- 05Security-35LibertyOrder
- LocalCentral
- 07Morality-80ProgressiveTraditional
- 08Religion-75SecularReligious
- EmbraceCaution
- 10Culture-55MulticulturalNational identity
- GlobalProtected
- CooperationStrength
Scores come from laws, budgets and institutional indexes, not from polls or the party in power. How country profiles are built
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Each percentage compares a person's documented positions with the country's current profile, on the axes both have on record. A high score means their views match the status quo. A low one means they would change more.
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What is Uruguay's type on the 12 axes?
Read from its laws and institutions, Uruguay comes out as MLPG (Free-Market Cosmopolitan). The type takes one letter per family of three axes: Economy, State, Society and World. It describes how the country is governed, not what its people think.
Which figure from Uruguay is closest to how it is governed today?
Of the people from Uruguay profiled here, José Mujica sits closest to its current policy profile, at 82% on the axes both have on record.
Which countries are governed most like Uruguay?
On the 12 axes, Colombia is closest at 88%, followed by Chile at 86%. The comparison uses the same country profiles as the country match on your 12 Axes result.