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State spending

Where your money goes.

2.181.905 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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2,18 MPurchases on record$ 17.000 Typical purchase (median)42.904State suppliers6.237Price 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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How many purchases the state makes, by year

Number of purchases recorded each year. The volume keeps growing; tap a bar to open that year in the explorer.

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.

  1. TRAFIGURA PTE LTD
    Company
    82 contracts$ 77,61 mil M
  2. VITOL S.A.
    Company
    20 contracts$ 51,41 mil M
  3. AXENS
    Company
    3 contracts$ 31,64 mil M
  4. ALCOHOLES DEL URUGUAY S A
    Company
    191 contracts$ 31,55 mil M
  5. DIRECCION GENERAL DE CASINOS DEL ESTADO
    Public body
    72 contracts$ 30,77 mil M
  6. CIRCUITO VIAL TRES S.A
    Company
    1 contracts$ 25,92 mil M

Who spends it

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

  1. Administración Nacional de Combustible, Alcohol y Portland9.579 contracts$ 471,84 mil M
  2. Dirección Nacional de Vialidad12.176 contracts$ 139,54 mil M
  3. Administración Nacional de Usinas y Trasmisiones Eléctricas9.306 contracts$ 130,75 mil M
  4. Administración de las Obras Sanitarias del Estado16.111 contracts$ 100,12 mil M
  5. Dirección General de Casinos6.608 contracts$ 93,07 mil M
  6. Secretaría del Ministerio del Interior18.493 contracts$ 74,25 mil M

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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What the state buys

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The categories with the most reported spending. Roads and fuel dominate the tab.

  1. CONSTRUCCION DE CARRETERA16.1% of reported spending$ 126,42 mil M
  2. CRUDO WTI MIDLAND15.2% of reported spending$ 119,37 mil M
  3. GAS OIL8.7% of reported spending$ 68,52 mil M
  4. CONSTRUCCION DE EDIFICIO PUBLICO5.4% of reported spending$ 42,06 mil M
  5. ARRENDAMIENTO DE SALA DE JUEGO4.3% of reported spending$ 33,54 mil M
  6. Platino4.0% of reported spending$ 31,52 mil M

What doesn't add up

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6.237 price flags · 1.171 critical Purchases whose unit price spikes against what's usually paid for the same item. A flag is not an accusation: it's where to start looking.

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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 2.181.905 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. · Data as of 07 ago. 2026