Uruguay's public procurement
Public procurement by party
How each department's procurement looks, grouped by the party in office. A descriptive comparison over open data — not a management score: the data cannot attribute causes to a party.
How to read this
Each indicator is shown two ways: the median of departments (every department counts once, size-neutral) and the size-weighted aggregate. Party is public electoral record — who governed that year — never an attribution of the spending.
Population: INE — Censo 2023 (2023), for spend per resident.
Governing party
Hover (or tap) a department to see its indicators.
By party: Spend per resident
Median (size-neutral) vs. aggregate (weighted). The gap between them is informative.
How NOT to read this (confounders)
- Montevideo is 37% of the country and always FA-governed: it inflates any aggregate.
- FA governs the urban areas, PN the rural interior: different baselines.
- Departmental terms don't line up with presidential ones.
- Reporting completeness varies widely across departments.
- Correlation isn't cause: the party in office doesn't by itself explain the spending.
Updated 01 ago. 2026 · geoBoundaries (gbOpen, CC-BY 4.0)