Mexico
population: National quarterly estimate (31 Mar 2026) · indicators as of 5 Sep 2026 · 93 metros tracked
🗺️ Geography93 metros
Mexico metro footprint, shaded by composite tier.
Select a metro for its rank and a link to its page. Boundaries derived from Overture Maps administrative divisions; metros without source coverage are omitted.
🏙️ 93 tracked metros
🗂️ Administrative subdivisions
32 entries listed under Mexico across 2 types. Select any to see its metros and footprint.
States (31)
Districts (1)
📋 At a glance
- Official languages
- Spanish, nahuatl, Yucatec Maya
- Currency
- Peso ($)
- Government
- Democratic republic
- Legislature
- Congress of the Union
- Constitution
- 1917, 81 amendment events since
- Demonym
- Mexican
- Time zone
- Central Time Zone
- Driving side
- Right
- Calling code
- +52
- Internet TLD
- .mx
- ISO 3166
- MX
- Established
- 1810
- Highest point
- Citlaltepetl (5,636 m (18,491 ft))
- National anthem
- Toque de Bandera
Facts via Wikidata.
🗣️ Languages of Mexico
Spanish first; 2 languages share the country; 1 official.
| Language | Share | Status | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 83% | De facto | CLDR, country |
| English | 13% | None | CLDR, country |
| Yucatec Maya | 0.7% | None | CLDR, country |
| Tzeltal | 0.5% | None | Census, can speak |
| Tzotzil | 0.5% | None | Census, can speak |
| Zapotec | 0.4% | None | Census, can speak |
Shares count first and second language, so they overlap and can add past 100%.
- English reach
- 13%
- Tier 3 country
- Effective languages
- 1.4
- Official-language gap
- 17%
- Spanish is spoken by 83%
📰 In the news5 stories
The Hollywood Reporter · 30 Oct 2026
TelevisaUnivision Q3: World Cup lifts Mexico, U.S. ad revenue downTelevisaUnivision's U.S. ad revenue fell 24% without World Cup rights while Mexico revenue rose 51%.
SportBusiness · 29 Oct 2026
Liga MX edges closer to rights centralisationLiga MX clubs agreed not to renew individual media deals after 2028, a step toward collective selling.
The Washington Post · 28 Oct 2026
I saw the future driving in Mexico. It's off-limits to Americans.A Post columnist test-drove the Chinese electric cars sold in Mexico but unavailable in the US.
BBC Sport · 18 Sept 2026
Tuchel regrets not eating Azteca turf after win over MexicoFurther reading from the day's section on Lightning Round.
The Washington Post · 7 Sept 2026
"Sears isn't dead. It's alive and well in Mexico."Further reading from the day's reading list.
💹 Economy and developmentUpper middle income
Ranks are among sovereign countries with data; ★ marks a top-5% finish. Sources: World Bank Open Data and Our World in Data (UNDP, UN WPP, V-Dem, Global Carbon Budget, Ember, Energy Institute; CC BY 4.0). Each card credits its originating body. Renewable share is of electricity generation, not of primary energy. Each figure is the most recent year available.
🏛️ Leadership History69 leaders · click to expand
is an editorial flag: associated with atrocities against civilians, systemic subversion of the constitutional order, or a criminal conviction (political persecutions and annulled convictions excluded). It is a curated list, not a measurement, so a name without one has not been cleared of anything. Hover a badge for the reason on file.
Elections
Presidential elections since 1853 →
From the Porfiriato and one-party rule to real contests and the first woman president.
Constitution
Written 1917 →
81 amendment events since, the last in 2025. Compare it with every other country.
Spectrum →
Executive 2.7 (expert)
Legislature 4.7 mean, 2.2 spread · presidential
📈 Power over timeThe Power Atlas →
The power line is the headline share of world power, running from the state’s first ranked year (benchmark estimates with wide error bars before 1816). Latent power is material mass a state could mobilise (population, manpower, heavy industry). Recognised power is what the system actually treats it as (military spending, productive economy, reach, and status such as a Security Council seat or nuclear arsenal). When latent runs above recognised, a power is rising or under-rated; when recognised runs higher, it is punching above its weight or coasting on prestige. Material sub-indices run 1816 through 2016.
⚔️ Wars and conflicts11 interstate wars · click to expand
| Conflict | Years | Against | Combat deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| Border War (1910–19) | 1910–1919 | MexicoVillistas,Mexico Seditionistas,Mexico Carrancistas | — |
| Mexican Revolution● | 1910–1920 | Maderistas,Orozquistas,Villistas,Zapatistas,Carrancistas,Magonistas,Seditionistas | 300,037+ |
| Barrios' War of Reunification | 1885 | Guatemala,Honduras | 1,000+ |
| Las Cuevas War | 1875 | United States Texas Rangers | — |
| French intervention in Mexico● | 1861–1867 | Second French Empire,Mexico Second Mexican Empire,Austrian Empire (German and Hungarian volunteers),Belgium Belgian Foreign Legion,Egyptian Sudanese,Spain Kingdom of Spain (retired in 1862),United Kingdom United Kingdom (retired in 1862) | 20,000+ |
| Reform War | 1857–1861 | Mexico Conservatives | 8,000+ |
| Revolution of Ayutla | 1854–1857 | Mexico Santa Anna dictatorship | — |
| Mexican–American War● | 1846–1848 | United States | 19,283+ |
| Pastry War | 1838–1839 | France | — |
| Spanish attempts to reconquer Mexico | 1821–1829 | Spain Spanish Empire | 1,835+ |
| Yaqui Wars | 1533–1929 | Crown of Castile (1533–1716),Spain (1716–1821) | — |
Bold = principal belligerent. Source: Wikipedia, “List of interstate wars since 1945.” Figures marked “COW battle deaths” are Correlates of War battle-death counts, which run lower than total deaths.
👥 Population over time
Our World in Data population (CC BY): UN WPP 2024 from 1950, Gapminder v7 1800-1949, HYDE 3.3 earlier; today's borders. Figures above are as of 2023, the last year that is estimated rather than forecast. The dashed tail to 2026 is a UN WPP medium-variant projection. It is drawn because the line should reach the present, and drawn differently because it has not happened yet: no rank, peak or share on this page uses it. Before 1950 the series is reconstruction rather than contemporaneous statistics, which is worth knowing when a country’s peak sits back there. The current population shown elsewhere on this page comes from the workbook and is unchanged by this. Note that people and share of world can move in opposite directions. A country can grow steadily and still become a smaller part of humanity, which is what happened to almost every rich country after 1960.
👥 To 2100
The UN’s probabilistic projection for Mexico: the median with its 80% and 95% bands, the UN’s own high, low and zero-migration scenarios beside it. Not this site’s model; the site reads it and says what it implies.
What drives it
Births, deaths and net migration on the UN medium path, with fertility, life expectancy and median age, every decade from 1950.
Source: United Nations, DESA, Population Division. World Population Prospects 2024. Licensed under CC BY 3.0 IGO. Estimates to 2023; projections 2024 to 2100, medium variant and probabilistic intervals. The UN revises every two years; this is the WPP 2024 revision.
💰 Billionaires24 · $266.3B combined · click to expand
Source: Forbes real-time billionaires (via the rtb-api project). Net worth as of the latest monthly snapshot.
🏆 National Teams
Mexico on the international stage. Select a card for the full record.
National Teams Champions
Every major championship won by Mexico's national teams, newest first. 14 in total.
| Year | Date | Champion | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-07-06 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2023 | 2023-07-16 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2019 | 2019-07-07 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2015 | 2015-07-26 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2011 | 2011-06-25 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2009 | 2009-07-26 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 2003 | 2003-07-27 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 1999 | 1999-08-04 | Mexico | Confederations Cup |
| 1998 | 1998-02-15 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 1996 | 1996-01-21 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 1993 | 1993-07-25 | Mexico | CONCACAF Gold Cup |
| 1977 | 1977-10-23 | Mexico | CONCACAF Championship |
| 1971 | 1971-12-04 | Mexico | CONCACAF Championship |
| 1965 | 1965-04-11 | Mexico | CONCACAF Championship |