Corruption in Uruguay

Corruption is low in Uruguay by regional standards. It has generally outperformed other Latin American countries frequently in corruption related international indexes.

On Transparency International's 2022 Corruption Perceptions Index, Uruguay scored 74 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean"). When ranked by score, Uruguay ranked 14th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 12 (ranked 180). For comparison with regional scores, the highest score among the countries of the Americas was 74 (shared by Uruguay and Canada), the average score was 43 and the lowest score was 14.