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Show a steady income and you get permanent residence, not a permit to renew.

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생활비
72.9% (미국 물가 대비)
A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.
치안
1.754 · 43rd of 163
First in South America on the index by a clear margin, and forty-third globally
영주권
Permanent residence, straight away
의료
Join a mutualista and you are covered
Out-of-pocket spending is 17.1% of current health expenditure here (World Bank, 2023, CC BY 4.0). Read it with care: the measure counts only what insured people pay — not premiums, and not the uninsured — which is why the United States comes out at 10.9%, ahead of most countries on this site.

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생활비72.9% (미국 물가 대비)

World Bank, 2024, CC BY 4.0: the PPP conversion factor for household consumption is 29.2982 local currency units per international dollar, against an official exchange rate of 40.2128 to the US dollar. Their ratio, 0.729, is the price level against the United States, whose own ratio is 1 by construction. Both figures are theirs; the division is ours. See the Pathoff method, section 12.

A comparison of prices, not a budget: it says what things cost here against the United States, not what a month will cost you. Compared at country level, so capital cities and large metros run higher. The price level prices the basket residents buy, and a foreign renter cannot reach the cheap end of local housing — poorer countries may still sit too low here.

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치안1.754 · 43rd of 163

Global Peace Index 2026, Institute for Economics and Peace: score 1.754, ranked 43 of 163. Both figures are theirs; we publish them as they are.

First in South America on the index by a clear margin, and forty-third globally

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영주권Permanent residence, straight away

Pathoff outcome rubric (the Pathoff method, section 10-4), residency band "Settlement is open": The rentista category grants permanent legal residence to someone with stable recurring income from abroad, evidenced by a notarial certificate — settlement itself rather than a permission to be renewed. At the foot of the band because no minimum income is set in law, so the bar is applied case by case and cannot be checked in advance.

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마지막 확인
2026-09
의료Join a mutualista and you are covered

Pathoff healthcare rubric (the Pathoff method, section 13-2), band "Covered, with a private top-up in practice": The integrated national system covers the resident population and legal residents have the same rights as citizens; in practice most people hold a mutualista membership, which is affordable, and the state provider can be joined at no cost. Solid in the band; not above it because the country is small enough that the most specialised treatment can mean travelling.

Out-of-pocket spending is 17.1% of current health expenditure here (World Bank, 2023, CC BY 4.0). Read it with care: the measure counts only what insured people pay — not premiums, and not the uninsured — which is why the United States comes out at 10.9%, ahead of most countries on this site.

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마지막 확인
2026-09

여기는 어떤 곳인가

Uruguay is the only country on this site that grants permanent legal residence directly to someone arriving on passive income — not a one-year permission renewed forever, but the real thing, with citizenship reachable in a few years. Health cover through a mutualista is affordable and residents have the same rights as citizens. The cost is the cost: Uruguay is the most expensive country in South America by a distance.

절차는 이렇습니다

1

Get the income certified by a Uruguayan notary

The certificate has to state the source, the monthly amount and how it arrives in Uruguay.

⏱ 1–2 months
2

File for permanent residence and expect it to take a while

Uruguayan processing is thorough rather than quick.

⏱ 6–18 months
3

Choose a mutualista

Membership is the normal route to care and is priced monthly.

⏱ 1 week

정착하는 곳

Montevideo (Pocitos, Carrasco)
Where the services, hospitals and schools are
Colonia del Sacramento
Small, historic, and an hour by boat from Buenos Aires
Punta del Este
Expensive in season, empty out of it

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사진: 우루과이 · Eduardo Ruggieri, 라이선스 CC BY-SA 3.0, 출처 Wikimedia Commons.