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State spending

Where your money goes.

— public purchases by the Uruguayan state since 2002, grouped for what they are: who gets paid, who spends, what is bought, and what doesn't add up. All from the data the state itself publishes.

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—Purchases on recordTypical purchase (median)—State suppliers—Price flags

The missing number

The state can't give you a reliable total

A handful of official records carry corrupt quantities. A single award declares 1,200,007 generation units at USD 519,788 each: USD 623 billion —about eight times the country's GDP— in one contract.

Three records like that hold 86% of all reported spending. A «total spent» headline would, in effect, be the sum of those errors. That's why the figure above is the median: half of the state's purchases are worth less than that, and it doesn't break on one bad number.

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Who gets the money

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The suppliers that were paid the most by the state. Fuel importers and printers lead the list.

Who spends it

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The bodies that spend the most. Fuel, roads and energy account for most of it.

Compilations

Spending grouped by event — a festival, a public works push, a story — with its total cost and the contract-by-contract detail.

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State advertising

How much the state spends on advertising and who collects it: media, agencies and the bodies that advertise most.

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The opacity, in two numbers

The state does publish its purchases, but incompletely. Auditing or filtering on this data leaves most records out.

91,6%of tenders don't report how they ended
69,3%don't report which procedure was used

Across — records · data as of 18 jul. 2026 · See the official source

Now look for yourself

This all comes from open data. You can drill down to each contract and its official record.

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Source: Compras Estatales open data (OCDS), catalogodatos.gub.uy. Amounts normalized to pesos; a few records with impossible quantities are excluded from averages.