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Uruguay is a country in the southeastern part of South America. Among the various social classes of Uruguay, the middle class is the most dominant one. One of the features that helped the country historically to stay away from social division was the large provision of free public education which started during1970s.
In the Social Classes of Uruguay, there was financial stagnation from the 1950s and it resulted in the decrease of the opportunities for the upward communal mobility. The upper classes of Uruguay consisted of ranchers, politicians and businessmen.
Uruguay middle class include small businessmen, professionals, white-collar workers and medium size farmers. The lower classes of Uruguay consist of domestic workers, small number of peasants and blue-collar workers. The various regions of Uruguay differ in population, indexes of economic and social development.
The upper classes in Uruguay are supposed to constitute five percent of the total population in the country. The sociologists had estimated that the percentage of the middle class people in Uruguay constituted about two thirds of the total population.
The countryside society of Uruguay stayed much more strictly hierarchical than the urban Uruguay society. Uruguay has the most number of middle class families in the South American continent. For the major part of the twentieth century the middle class people of the country received great profit from the stipulation of free but superb public education through the university.
The urban poor population in Uruguay was intense with the problem of unemployment and of those who worked in the informal sector of the unskilled labor, economy etc. Small farmers in Uruguay accounted for just 5 percent of the total Uruguay land.
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