ty line:
22% of households (2004)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.7%
highest 10%: 25.8% (1997)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
44.6 (2000)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
6.5% (2006 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
13.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $5.203 billion
expenditures: $5.449 billion; including capital expenditures of $193
million (2006 est.)

Public debt:
70.6% of GDP (2006 est.)

Agriculture - products:
rice, wheat, corn, barley; livestock; fish

Industries:
food processing, electrical machinery, transportation equipment,
petroleum products, textiles, chemicals, beverages

Industrial production growth rate:
12.6% (2006 est.)

Electricity - production:
8.183 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - production by source:
fossil fuel: 0.7%
hydro: 99.1%
nuclear: 0%
other: 0.3% (2001)

Electricity - consumption:
9.939 billion kWh (2004)

Electricity - exports:
19 million kWh (2004)

Electricity - imports:
2.348 billion kWh (2004)

Oil - production:
513.5 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
38,100 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Oil - imports:
NA bbl/day (2001)

Natural gas - production:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
120 million cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2004 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
120 million cu m (2004 est.)

Current account balance:
$-600 million (2006 est.)

Exports:
$3.993 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Exports - commodities:
meat, rice, leather products, wool, fish, dairy products

Exports - partners:
US 23.2%, Brazil 13.5%, Argentina 7.8%, Germany 4.2%, Mexico 4.1%
(2005)

Imports:
$4.532 billion f.o.b. (2006 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, chemicals, road vehicles, crude petroleum

Imports - partners:
Brazil 21.3%, Argentina 20.3%, Russia 8%, US 6.7%, Venezuela 6.3%,
China 6.2%, Nigeria 5.9% (2005)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$3.594 billion (2006 est.)

Debt - external:
$10.37 billion (30 June 2006 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
$NA

Currency (code):
Uruguayan peso (UYU)

Currency code:
UYU

Exchange rates:
Uruguayan pesos per US dollar - 23.9911 (2006), 24.479 (2005),
28.704 (2004), 28.209 (2003), 21.257 (2002)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

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