Quality of life in Montevideo
Montevideo, Uruguay, is characterized by reasonably priced housing. Our data reflects that this city has a good ranking in business freedom and tolerance.
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Montevideo, Uruguay, is characterized by reasonably priced housing. Our data reflects that this city has a good ranking in business freedom and tolerance.
Large apartment | $930.00 |
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Medium apartment | $750.00 |
Rent index [score] | 0.82 |
Small apartment | $580.00 |
5km taxi ride | $8.30 |
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A Cappuccino | $3.40 |
A beer | $2.10 |
A kilogram of Apples | $1.80 |
Bread | $0.76 |
Inflation [score] | 0.62 |
Lunch | $12.00 |
Monthly fitness club membership | $53.00 |
Monthly public transport | $51.00 |
Movie ticket | $9.40 |
Price of a meal at a restaurant | $64.39 |
Average monthly increase in number of startups [score] | 0.10 |
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Coworking spaces [score] | 0.10 |
Coworking spaces on WorkFrom.co | 7 |
Meetups [score] | 0.31 |
Meetups groups | 79 |
Meetups members | 22610 |
Number of investors | 6 |
Number of startup events in the last 12 months | 62 |
Number of upcoming meetup events | 8 |
Startup climate scene [score] | 0.27 |
Startup events | 10 |
Startup events [score] | 0.33 |
Startups [score] | 0.47 |
Total number of startups | 40 |
Venture capital [score] | 0.22 |
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Airport hub | 12 |
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Airport hub [score] | 0.14 |
Intercity train connectivity [score] | 0.10 |
Human city page | http://cities.human.co/details/Uruguay/Montevideo |
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Traffic handling [score] | 0.62 |
Business freedom | 75.30 |
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Business freedom [score] | 0.67 |
Freedom from corruption | 73.00 |
Freedom from corruption [score] | 0.77 |
Lack of labor restrictions | 62.50 |
Lack of labor restrictions [score] | 0.49 |
Time to open a business | 6.50 |
Time to open a business [score] | 0.94 |
Crime rate [score] | 0.37 |
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Gun-related deaths per 100,000 residents per year | 12 |
Guns per 100 residents | 32 |
Lack of gun related deaths [score] | 0.69 |
Lack of guns [score] | 0.83 |
Lack of guns and gun-related deaths [score] | 0.76 |
Healthcare expenditure [score] | 0.62 |
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Healthcare quality [score] | 0.67 |
Life expectancy (years) | 76.99 |
Life expectancy [score] | 0.62 |
Country mean scores in PISA math test | 410.98 |
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Country mean scores in PISA reading test | 411.35 |
Country mean scores in PISA science test | 415.84 |
PISA math ranking (high school) | 41 |
PISA ranking | 42 |
PISA ranking (high school) [score] | 0.34 |
PISA reading (high school) | 34 |
PISA science (high school) | 38 |
Percent of happy students | 0.82 |
Percent of low performers in PISA math test | 0.56 |
Percent of low performers in PISA reading test | 0.47 |
Percent of low performers in PISA science test | 0.47 |
Percent of top performers in PISA math test | 0.01 |
Percent of top performers in PISA reading test | 0.01 |
Percent of top performers in PISA science test | 0.01 |
Air quality [score] | 0.64 |
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Cleanliness [score] | 0.19 |
Drinking water quality [score] | 0.51 |
Urban greenery [score] | 0.47 |
Currency exchange rate per US dollar for urban area | 28.58 |
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Currency for urban area | UYU |
GDP growth rate | 0.03 |
GDP growth rate [score] | 0.54 |
GDP per capita | $20556.33 |
GDP per capita [score] | 0.34 |
Effective company profit tax rate on payouts as dividends [score] | 0.58 |
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Income tax level [score] | 0.38 |
Profit tax (% of profit) | 0.42 |
Time overhead to file company taxes | 271 |
VAT (Sales Tax) | 0.22 |
Download speed (Mbps) | 13.30 |
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Internet access (download) [score] | 0.25 |
Internet access (upload) [score] | 0.19 |
Upload speed (Mbps) | 4.27 |
Art galleries | 62 |
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Art galleries [score] | 0.44 |
Cinemas | 49 |
Cinemas [score] | 0.40 |
Comedy clubs | 14 |
Comedy clubs [score] | 0.56 |
Concert venues | 82 |
Concerts [score] | 0.45 |
Historical sites | 70 |
Historical sites [score] | 0.58 |
Museums | 62 |
Museums [score] | 0.41 |
Performing art venues | 74 |
Performing arts [score] | 0.55 |
Sport venues | 69 |
Sports [score] | 0.70 |
Zoos | 4 |
Zoos [score] | 0.60 |
LGBT Equality Index | 96.40 |
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LGBT Equality Index [score] | 0.99 |
LGBT adoption rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT age of consent | ✔ Equal |
LGBT blood donation regulations | ✔ Legal |
LGBT conversion therapy regulations | ✔ Banned |
LGBT discrimination legality | ✔ Illegal |
LGBT employment discrimination legality | ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity |
LGBT gender changing rights | ✔ Legal, but requires surgery |
LGBT homosexuality rights | ✔ Legal |
LGBT housing discrimination legality | ✔ Sexual orientation and gender identity |
LGBT marriage rights | ✔ Legal |
Tolerance towards minorities [score] | 0.95 |
Elevation (hills or mountains) [score] | 0.13 |
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Median peak in meters | 132.00 |
Presence of hills in city | 1.00 |
Seaside access | 1.00 |
Urban area elevation (meters) | 34.00 |
Water access [score] | 0.91 |
Costs of living in Montevideo are in the 97th place of all 248 Teleport cities. Sign up for free to get access to our cost of living index and use our international cost of living calculator to do cost comparison by city.
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The overall crime rate puts Montevideo in position 215 of 266 Teleport Cities in a ranking for the safest cities.
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Montevideo is the capital city of Uruguay, located on the east bank of the Rio de la Plata. Though sometimes overlooked beside nearby Buenos Aires, Montevideo is a significant city in its own right: it's the cultural and political center of the country, home to well over a million people, more than ten times the size of the next largest Uruguayan city. The metro area has around two million—half of the population of Uruguay—but the friendliness and helpfulness of the residents will make you think you're in a much smaller city.
There are several theories about the origins of the city's name. The "monte" part is generally considered to be the hill where the Cerro fort is located. According to one theory the hill was named "Monte-VI-D-E-O(este)", which translates to Mountain six (VI in Roman numerals) From East to West. Another popular theory is that a member of Ferdinand Magellan's world circumnavigation would have shouted "Monte vide eu!", which translates to "I see a mountain!" when seeing the hill - however the circumnavigation happened two centuries before the foundation of the city so it might well have been another mountain he saw.
Construction of the Cerro fort, at the time called Montevieu fort, was started by the Portuguese in 1723. The following year the Spanish started building the city of Montevideo on the opposite side of the bay where currently Ciudad Vieja is located and occupied and colonized the rest of the region. During its almost 300 years of existence, Montevideo has been part of the Spanish and Portuguese empires, occupied by the British for a few months in 1807 and afterwards a part of Brazil and today's Argentina before finally becoming the capital of the newly-founded Republic of Uruguay in 1828.
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