Uruguay has made some advancement in terms of governance over the last decade. Particularly, the quality of government, measured by the Quality of Government Index, which ranges from 0 to 1 and includes proxies of corruption, law and order, and bureaucracy quality, increased from 0.47 to 0.56 between 2005 and 2015. Uruguay is above the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) average (0.44), yet below the OECD average (0.78).