The statistic depicts the ten largest cities in Mexico in 2020. In 2020, Mexico City had around 8.84 million residents which made it the largest city in Mexico.

Population of Mexico

Mexico is a federal republic located in North America, sharing borders with the United States to the north, and to the southeast with Guatemala and Belize. With a total area of over 1.9 million square kilometers, it is the fourteenth largest nation in the world and the fifth largest in the Americas.

In 2014, Mexico’s total population amounted to approximately 120 million people. A little under two thirds of Mexico’s total population is of Mestizo ethnicity. The total population has steadily grown over the past decade, despite being the source to the largest migration flow between countries in the world; in 2010, around 11.6 million immigrants from Mexico lived in the United States. The migration flow between the United States and Mexico has however, decreased over the past ten years: Between 1995 and 2000, over 2.9 million migrants emigrated from Mexico to the United States. This was more than the double of migrants who emigrated from Mexico to the United States between 2005 and 2010. Each year, Mexico's population grows by about 1.24 percent compared to the previous year. Mexico City, the country’s capital and largest city, is home to approximately 8.6 million people.

In 2025, approximately 23 million people lived in the São Paulo metropolitan area, making it the biggest in Latin America and the Caribbean and the sixth most populated in the world. The homonymous state of São Paulo was also the most populous federal entity in the country. The second place for the region was Mexico City with 22.75 million inhabitants. Brazil's cities Brazil is home to two large metropolises, only counting the population within the city limits, São Paulo had approximately 11.45 million inhabitants, and Rio de Janeiro around 6.21 million inhabitants. It also contains a number of smaller, but well known cities such as Brasília, Salvador, Belo Horizonte and many others, which report between 2 and 3 million inhabitants each. As a result, the country's population is primarily urban, with nearly 88 percent of inhabitants living in cities. Mexico City Mexico City's metropolitan area ranks sevenths in the ranking of most populated cities in the world. Founded over the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan in 1521 after the Spanish conquest as the capital of the Viceroyalty of New Spain, the city still stands as one of the most important in Latin America. Nevertheless, the preeminent economic, political, and cultural position of Mexico City has not prevented the metropolis from suffering the problems affecting the rest of the country, namely, inequality and violence. Only in 2023, the city registered a crime incidence of 52,723 reported cases for every 100,000 inhabitants and around 24 percent of the population lived under the poverty line.

A dataset listing New Mexico cities by population for 2024.

This statistic shows the ten largest cities in Italy in 2025. In 2025, around 2.75 million people lived in Rome, making it the largest city in Italy. Population of Italy Italy has high population figures and a high population density in comparison to other European countries. A vast majority of Italians lives in urban areas and in the metropolises (as can be seen in this statistic), while other areas, such as the island Sardinia, are rather sparsely inhabited. After an increase a few years ago, Italy’s fertility rate, i.e. the average amount of children born to a woman of childbearing age, is now on a slow decline; however, it is still high enough to offset any significant effect the decrease might have on the country’s number of inhabitants. The median age of Italy’s population has been increasing rapidly over the past 50 years – which mirrors a lower mortality rate – and Italy is now among the countries with the highest life expectancy worldwide, only surpassed by two Asian countries, namely Japan and Hong Kong. Currently, the average life expectancy at birth in Italy is at about 83 years. Most of Italy’s population is of Roman Catholic faith. The country actually boasts one of the largest numbers of Catholics worldwide; other such countries include Brazil, Mexico and the United States. The central government of the Roman Catholic Church, the Holy See, is located in Vatican City in the heart of Italy’s capital and ruled by the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. Officially, Vatican City does not belong to Italy, but is a sovereign state with its own legislation and jurisdiction. It has about 600 inhabitants, who are almost exclusively members of the clergy or government officials.

Consumer Price Index (CPI): Mexico City. Metropolitan Areas data was reported at 102.859 16Jul2018-31Jul2018=100 in Mar 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 102.513 16Jul2018-31Jul2018=100 for Feb 2019. Consumer Price Index (CPI): Mexico City. Metropolitan Areas data is updated monthly, averaging 13.445 16Jul2018-31Jul2018=100 from Jan 1969 (Median) to Mar 2019, with 603 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 102.859 16Jul2018-31Jul2018=100 in Mar 2019 and a record low of 0.012 16Jul2018-31Jul2018=100 in Jan 1969. Consumer Price Index (CPI): Mexico City. Metropolitan Areas data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.I018: Consumer Price Index: by Major City: Second Half July 2018=100.

In 2020, the total population of Mexico City reached 9.2 million and a population density of 6,163.3 residents per square kilometer. This made Mexico City the federal entity with the largest population density in the country. The State of Mexico followed second, with a population density of 760.2 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The services sector employed the largest share of workers in Mexico City as of the second quarter of 2024, with ***** percent. The commerce industry ranked second, with about ** percent of employed population in the country's capital working in this sector.

As of 2025, Tokyo-Yokohama in Japan was the largest world urban agglomeration, with 37 million people living there. Delhi ranked second with more than 34 million, with Shanghai in third with more than 30 million inhabitants.

In Mexico City, during the time frame displayed, there has been an overall decrease in the economic development. Having its lowest peak in the 2nd quarter of 2020 with ***** percent and its highest peak in the 2nd quarter of 2021 with **** percent.

Greater Mexico City had the most industrial and logistics real estate space among select Mexican cities in the second half of 2024. The total inventory amounted to *** million square feet, compared to *** million square feet in Monterrey. Guadalajara, one of Mexico's smaller markets, had the lowest vacancy rate during that period.

Guerrero is the Mexican state with the highest proportion of Afro-descendant population. In 2020, 8.6 percent of residents in this federal entity located on the coast of the Pacific Ocean defined themselves as Afro-descendants or Afro-Mexicans. In Mexico City, approximately two percent of inhabitants self-identified as Afro-descendants.

Depending on the location, the average price for a two-bedroom apartment in Mexico City could exceed ******* U.S. dollars in 2024. In Miguel Hidalgo, the most expensive borough to buy an apartment in Mexico City, the average apartment price was nearly ******* U.S. dollars for a two-bedroom apartment, while a three-bedroom apartment cost over ******* U.S. dollars. Among the boroughs ranked in the statistic, Coyoacán had the most affordable prices for a one-bedroom apartment, averaging ******* U.S. dollars. Overall, Mexico City has the highest average house price per square meter in Mexico.

There were approximately ***** million square feet of industrial and logistics real estate under construction in Monterrey in the second half of 2024. This was no surprise, as Monterrey is also Mexico's second-largest industrial real estate market. During that quarter, Guadalajara was the market with the lowest vacancy rate.

A dataset listing New Mexico counties by population for 2024.

Depending on the apartment size and area, the gross rental yield of apartments in Mexico City started from 3.41 percent and exceeded eight percent in 2024. A two-bedroom apartment in Tlalpan had the lowest yield at 3.41 percent. In Miguel Hidalgo, yields were for an apartment with two bedrooms were 8.16 percent. Overall, rental yields in Mexico were the lowest in Acapulco.

Based on land area, Brazil is the largest country in Latin America by far, with a total area of over 8.5 million square kilometers. Argentina follows with almost 2.8 million square kilometers. Cuba, whose surface area extends over almost 111,000 square kilometers, is the Caribbean country with the largest territory.

Brazil: a country with a lot to offer

Brazil's borders reach nearly half of the South American subcontinent, making it the fifth-largest country in the world and the third-largest country in the Western Hemisphere. Along with its landmass, Brazil also boasts the largest population and economy in the region. Although Brasília is the capital, the most significant portion of the country's population is concentrated along its coastline in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

South America: a region of extreme geographic variation

With the Andes mountain range in the West, the Amazon Rainforest in the East, the Equator in the North, and Cape Horn as the Southern-most continental tip, South America has some of the most diverse climatic and ecological terrains in the world. At its core, its biodiversity can largely be attributed to the Amazon, the world's largest tropical rainforest, and the Amazon river, the world's largest river. However, with this incredible wealth of ecology also comes great responsibility. In the past decade, roughly 80,000 square kilometers of the Brazilian Amazon were destroyed. And, as of late 2019, there were at least 1,000 threatened species in Brazil alone.

In 2025, Pietermaritzburg in South Africa ranked as the world's most dangerous city with a crime rate of 82 per 100,000 inhabitants. Five of the 10 cities with the highest crime rates worldwide are found in South Africa. The list does not include countries where war and conflict exist. South Africa dominates crime statistics When looking at crime rates, among the 10 most dangerous cities in the world, half of them are found in South Africa. The country is struggling with extremely high levels of inequality, and is struggling with high levels of crime and power outages, harming the country's economy and driving more people into unemployment and poverty. Crime in Latin America On the other hand, when looking at murder rates, Latin America dominates the list of the world's most dangerous countries. Violence in Latin America is caused in great part by drug trafficking, weapons trafficking, and gang wars.

Colima was the city in Mexico that led the ranking of highest homicide rates in 2023. The city had a murder rate of approximately ****** per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by Ciudad Obregón, with a homicide rate of ******. That year, those two cities had the highest homicide rates not only in Mexico, but in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Chiapas, the state with the highest share of population living in poverty, had the highest wealth inequality in the country based on the Gini coefficient as well. This index measures the deviation of the income distribution situation in a given country from a perfectly equal distribution. A value of 0 represents an ideal situation of equality, whereas 1 would be the highest possible degree of inequality. As of 2022, Mexico City, the country's capital, had a Gini coefficient of 0.46, second highest recorded figure.

In 2024, many of the best cities for startups in Latin America and the Caribbean were located in Brazil. Specifically, this Portuguese-speaking country had * of the top 10 cities for startups in the region. São Paulo topped the list, with a total score of ***** points. Another two cities of the list were located in Mexico, Mexico City and Monterrey.