One in every 69 babies born in the world today is born in Mexico. Mexico has about 1,900,000 births a year, around 1.4% of all births worldwide.

Births per year
1,900,000
Share of world births
1.4%
Birth odds
1/69
Life expectancy
75 years
Risk of dying before age 5
1.3%
Income per person, PPP
US$23,000
Children per woman
1.8
Urban population
81%

Life expectancy in Mexico is 75 years, which is 2 years longer than the world average.

Of every 1,000 babies born here, about 13 do not reach their fifth birthday. The world average is 37 per 1,000.

Income per person is about US$23,000 in purchasing power. That is 1.0 times the world average.

On average a woman has 1.8 children in her lifetime. The world average is 2.3.

About 81% of the population lives in cities. A baby born here has roughly a 19% chance of being born in the countryside.

Born in Mexico: the distance between north and south

Life expectancy in Mexico was around 58 in the 1960s and is 75 today. Over the same period fertility fell from above 6.5 children per woman to 1.8. Vaccination campaigns, urbanisation, clean water and family planning services all played their part. Today 81 per cent of the population lives in cities. Diabetes and obesity are among the main health problems holding back faster gains in life expectancy. Mexico also suffered a marked loss of life expectancy during the pandemic years.

The biggest divide in the country runs between the north and centre on one side and the south on the other. In southern states such as Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero, poverty, the difficulty of reaching Indigenous communities with services and low school attendance go together with higher child deaths and more births. The northern border states and the area around Mexico City are better off. Money sent home by relatives working in the United States is part of many families' income. Whether children stay where they were born or move to the city often depends on how far their education takes them.

Religious makeup

  • Christianity91%
  • No religion8%

Sample names given to people born in this country in the game

Mateo · Santiago · Diego · Juan · Sofía · Valentina · Camila · Lucía

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Values are rounded approximations. Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024, World Bank WDI, Pew Research Center 2020.