Mexico population

On the UN's projection, Mexico will have the most working-age people it ever has in 2047: 97,798,300 people aged 15–64. In 2023 it had 87,049,400.

aged 15–64   children under 15   aged 65 and over

How to read this: one orange square for each of 100 people aged 15–64 in 2023. Beneath them, teal for the children living alongside those 100 and violet for the people aged 65 or older.

Fewer than 50 dependants live alongside every 100 people aged 15–64 in 22 years: 2021–2042.

fewer than 50 dependants per 100   the same, projected   50 or more

How to read this: 1950 on the left, 2100 on the right; coloured in the years with fewer than 50 dependants per 100 working-age people, grey in the rest, hatched where that is a projection.

How every country compares

In 2020–2025 Mexico loses 112,922 people a year: everyone who arrives, minus everyone who leaves. The age at which that happens most is 25–29, at 20,716 a year more leaving than arriving.

more arrive than leave   more leave than arrive

How to read this: each column is one age, youngest on the left. Above the line, in blue, are the ages gaining people; below it, in orange, the ages losing them. This is the UN's projection for 2020–2025 — the record of migration by age does not go back beyond 2020.

In the years that were counted, 1950–2023, the most it gained in one year was -30,809 (2009) and the most it lost was 451,756 (1986).

In 2024, 1,726,089 people living in Mexico had been born in another country, 1 of every 100 people there, against fewer than 1 in 1990.

How migration works everywhere

Of every 100 babies born in Mexico in 2023, 17 had a mother under 20, 72 a mother aged 20 to 34 and 11 a mother aged 35 or older. In 1950 it was 15 under 20 and 16 aged 35 or older.

The mother's age: under 20 20 to 34 35 or older projected

How to read this: shrink a year's babies to 100 and colour each one by the age of its mother — that is a block. Under it, the same three groups as numbers, starting with the youngest mothers.

Babies born, 2023

2,037,689

Average age when women have a baby

26.8 years

29.0 in 1950

Babies a year per 1,000 girls aged 15–19

60

133 in 1950

At the end of 2025, Mexico was hosting 389,694 people who had crossed a border into it, about 3 of every 1,000 people living there.

1. hosted from abroad389,694
2. displaced inside it262,411
3. Mexico nationals abroad278,117

stayed inside their own country   crossed a border

How to read this: each square is 10,000 people, so the rows can be compared with one another. The last row is people from Mexico living in another country, wherever they are.

In 2025, 70,482 people asked for asylum in Mexico for the first time; 91,761 people from Mexico asked for asylum in another country. Of every 100 people from Mexico whose claims were decided that year, 20 were given protection. Who asks for asylum, and who is given it

How the world's displacement is counted

Of every 100 people in Mexico in 2025, 53 lived in a city, 24 in a town or suburb and 23 in the countryside.

How to read this: one square for every hundredth person, coloured as the key shows. Because the rule behind the colours is the same everywhere, two countries' squares can be compared directly.

How the world's people live

Of every 100 adults in Mexico in 2020, 6 never went to school and 39 finished upper secondary or went further.

The young went further: 1.2 of every 100 women aged 25–29 never went to school, against 11.4 of every 100 aged 60–64 (men: 1.4 against 8.3).

Its people aged 15 to 64 are projected to be most numerous in 2050; the ones who finished upper secondary are most numerous later, in 2075.

How to read this: 100 squares, one for every hundredth adult aged 25 or over, from least schooling on the left to most on the right. Counted by the Wittgenstein Centre for 2020.

How far the world's people went in school

Mexico had 186 cities in 2025, home to 70.3 million people. The largest, Mexico City, holds 13 of every 100 people in Mexico.

1. Mexico City17,734,212
2. Guadalajara4,135,440
3. Monterrey3,938,015
4. Puebla1,947,971
5. Tijuana1,557,695
6. Toluca1,505,035
7. León1,367,521
8. Torreón1,227,850
9. Ciudad Juárez1,212,370
10. San Luis Potosí992,648

How to read this: the 10 largest cities in 2025, bars on one scale. A city is the whole built-up area on the UN's rule, not the city's own boundary.

All the world's cities