Internet Access in Uruguay: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

When we measure the data of human lives, we look at how entire generations experience the world. For Uruguay, the story across three centuries is below — every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there. In the 1800s estimate 0, 1810s estimate 0, 1820s estimate 0, 1830s estimate 0, 1840s estimate 0, 1850s estimate 0, 1860s estimate 0, 1870s estimate 0, 1880s estimate 0, 1890s estimate 0, and 1900s estimate 0 of the population could connect to a global network that simply did not yet exist.

The historical arc stretches across vast expanses of time before a single digital pulse appears in the records. Through the 1910s estimate 0, 1920s estimate 0, 1930s estimate 0, 1940s estimate 0, 1950s 0, 1960s 0, 1970s 0, and 1980s 0, the metric remained entirely untouched. Change finally arrived in the 1990s 2, crept upward through the 2000s 4, expanded rapidly in the 2010s 36, and reached where in the 2020s internet access in Uruguay stands at 68 % — ranking #86 of 157 countries. In 1900 it was 0 %. (Source: ITU / World Bank, compiled by MYRIAD)🇺🇾.

For someone living through these changing eras, the boundaries of daily existence shifted utterly, moving from complete isolation toward continuous connection. Looking forward, models anticipate further growth through the 2030s projection 71, 2040s projection 74, 2050s projection 77, 2060s projection 80, 2070s projection 83, 2080s projection 86, 2090s projection 89, and 2100s projection 92. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →