A dataset listing New Mexico cities by population for 2024.

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.

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The state of Mexico is the most populated region in Mexico, being home to around 13.44 percent of the country's total population. In 2022, approximately 17.32 million people lived in the state of Mexico, whereas 9.3 million resided in the country's capital, Mexico City. The state with the lowest number of inhabitants was Colima, with around 770,900 residents.

Mexico City’s leading talk and news radio station in the first half of 2020 was W Radio ****, with ****** thousand listeners in the area. Ranked second was Radio Uno ***** with ***** thousand listeners. In ********, more than ** percent of the population of Mexico City aged eight or older consumed radio content on workdays (Monday to Friday); the same was true for ** percent of the population on the weekends.

Two out of every three persons in Chiapas lived under the poverty line in 2022, making it the federal entity with the largest share of poor population in Mexico. On average, about 36 percent of the Mexican population was living in poverty that year.

Mexico City’s leading entertainment and music radio station in the first half of 2020 was Ke-Buena ****, with ****** thousand listeners in the area. Ranked second was Los 40 ***** with ****** thousand listeners. In May 2019, more than ** percent of the population of Mexico City aged eight or older consumed radio content on workdays (Monday to Friday); the same was true for ** percent of the population on the weekends.

According to a May 2024 survey, WhatsApp was the most popular social media platform in Mexico. At that time, ** percent of those interviewed said they had an active account on the messaging app. Also owned by Meta Platforms Inc., Facebook and Instagram ranked second and third, being used by ** and ** percent of respondents, respectively.

Social media penetration and demographics Close to ** percent of the Mexican population was expected to be on Facebook by the end of 2023 (slightly below the estimated ***** percent for the United States during the same period). Its popularity in the North American country relies heavily on young internet users: when it comes to the distribution of Mexican Facebook users by age group, more than ** percent were between 18 and 34 years old. All news just a click away According to a February 2022 survey, half of internet users in Mexico used Facebook for news consumption, while YouTube is used by ** percent of the country's online audiences for the same function. This preference was also observed across all age groups: more than a third of the country's news consumers across all demographics turned to the Meta-owned social network to find, read, watch, share, or comment on the news.

Ciro Gómez Leyva with the morning shows "Ciro Gómez Leyva por la Mañana" on Radio Fórmula 104.1 was the most popular radio morning newscaster in Mexico City, with a rating of 0.663 points. This translates into a reach of 130.04 thousand people and a share of 3.49 percent. Radio content consumption News is the second most popular radio content type in Mexico. It is consumed by 41 percent of radio listeners and trumped only by music, which is favored by 77 percent of the audience. Sports programming closes the top three genres, with 11 percent of listeners preferring it. A great majority of radio consumption is done offline, with only six percent of the listeners saying they tuned into the radio online. The most popular devices for radio content consumption are sound systems, portable radio receivers, and mobile phones. Radio reach Even though radio receivers are present in more than half of all Mexican households, under nine percent of the country’s population actually listen to the radio. The share is highest (12 percent) among adults aged 35 to 44 and lowest (three percent) among children under 12. Radio consumption is more popular among men than among women in the North American country, with 10 percent of men and only eight percent of women tuning in. The northwestern Mexican city of Hermosillo reported the highest radio reach of the country, with over 71 percent of the city’s population consuming radio.

In 2023, California had the highest Hispanic population in the United States, with over 15.76 million people claiming Hispanic heritage. Texas, Florida, New York, and Illinois rounded out the top five states for Hispanic residents in that year. History of Hispanic people Hispanic people are those whose heritage stems from a former Spanish colony. The Spanish Empire colonized most of Central and Latin America in the 15th century, which began when Christopher Columbus arrived in the Americas in 1492. The Spanish Empire expanded its territory throughout Central America and South America, but the colonization of the United States did not include the Northeastern part of the United States. Despite the number of Hispanic people living in the United States having increased, the median income of Hispanic households has fluctuated slightly since 1990. Hispanic population in the United States Hispanic people are the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, making Spanish the second most common language spoken in the country. In 2021, about one-fifth of Hispanic households in the United States made between 50,000 to 74,999 U.S. dollars. The unemployment rate of Hispanic Americans has fluctuated significantly since 1990, but has been on the decline since 2010, with the exception of 2020 and 2021, due to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.

In 2020, Mexico had a catholic population of ********** people, by far the most followed religion in the country. Mexico State concentrated more than **** million, close to the double of the second state in the list, Jalisco. The capital Mexico City figured in the third place, with **** million Catholics.

This statistics shows the leading metropolitan areas with the highest percentage of Hispanic or Latino population in the United States in 2023. Among the ** largest metropolitan areas, McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, Texas was ranked first with **** percent of the population reporting as Hispanic or Latino in 2023.

As of August 2025, approximately 51.4 percent of LinkedIn users in Mexico were between 25 and 34 years old, whereas 28.3 percent of the platform's users were aged 18 to 24. Meanwhile, in Brazil, users aged 25 to 34 years old also made up the largest share of users in this professional network.

As of 2024, a total of 277,268 patients performed legal abortions in Mexico City, of which 189,525 were women who resided in the capital. Meanwhile, over 77,160 patients came from the neighboring state of Mexico. Mexico City was the first state in the country where women could have abortions legally within the first twelve weeks of pregnancy. An outlier in an ocean of dissonanceVarying from state to state, each region in Mexico is unique regarding abortion laws and enforcement. Apart from rape, which is unanimously recognized across all states, factors such as maternal fatality, health, and child defects are the only exceptions for abortions in most local municipalities' penal codes. In many conservative parts of the country, such as Nuevo León, 141 criminal investigations were prosecuted due to abortion in 2023. Given abortion policies' political polarization, public opinion often falls along the lines of 'pro-choice' versus 'pro-life' disputes. According to a 2019 poll, citizens in Zacatecas, Chiapas, and Tamaulipas overwhelmingly disfavored women's right to abortion by over 70 percent, while citizens in Mexico City and Baja California favored women's right to abortion by approximately 53 percent. A population at strife with abortion rightsIn 2008, the Mexican supreme court decriminalized abortion in Mexico City, which set-off a historical precedent for women's rights across the region. Overall, Mexico along with Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, and Cuba are the only five countries in the region to have passed pro-abortion legislation. Yet, the subject across the region continues to be a divisive opinion. According to a 2023 survey, Argentina remains the most progressive population, with 54 percent believing abortion should be allowed according to the woman's determination. However, across the region, around 35 percent of Latin Americans believe that abortion should only be allowed under certain circumstances, such as rape. Alternatively, birth control measures have become increasingly popular in the region. As of 2019, people in Latin America and the Caribbean were the second largest population using contraception in the world.

The average cost of a pack of Marlboro cigarettes in Mexico City in 2019 was around *** U.S. dollars, comparable to the price recorded in the previous three years. In comparison to 2014, however, Marlboro cigarettes in the Mexican capital dropped by approximately ** percent that year.

Marlboro

In 2019, Marlboro was the leading cigarette brand in Mexico, accounting for more than half of the market. The brand is owned by the Swiss-American multinational Philip Morris, which that same year was worth more than *** billion U.S. dollars, placing it at the top of the largest tobacco companies worldwide. Malboro is Philip Morris’s most popular brand, but it’s not the only one. The company also produces Delicados, L&M, and Benson & Hedges cigarettes, among others.

Smoking prevalence in Mexico

As the second most populated country in Latin America, Mexico is home to the second-largest smoking population in the region, only surpassed in both cases by Brazil. Nonetheless, the North American country ranks only for the ******* place in Latin America’s smoking prevalence ranking, overlaying Brazil but far behind countries like Chile, Cuba, and Suriname.