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Belize vs Mexico
How Belize and Mexico compare on 34 measures, from 1820 to 2025. The main differences:
- Life expectancy · In 2023, Mexico was higher: 75.1 years against 73.6 years
- GDP per person · In 2025, Mexico was higher: $10,260 against $6,374
- Population · In 2023, Mexico was higher: 130 million people against 411,100 people
- Military spending · In 2025, Belize was higher: 1% of GDP against 0.74% of GDP
- CO₂ per person · In 2024, Mexico was higher: 3.64 tonnes against 0.93 tonnes
Every measure
Health
- Life expectancyBelize: 73.6 years in 2023Mexico: 75.1 years in 2023
- Child mortalityBelize: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024Mexico: 1.3 per 100 live births in 2024
- Infant mortalityBelize: 8.7 per 1,000 live births in 2023Mexico: 10.4 per 1,000 live births in 2023
- DepressionBelize: 2.84% in 2017Mexico: 2.79% in 2017
- Suicide rateBelize: 7.8 per 100,000 people in 2017Mexico: 5.9 per 100,000 people in 2017
People
- PopulationBelize: 411,100 people in 2023Mexico: 130 million people in 2023
- Population growthBelize: 1.46% a year in 2023Mexico: 0.88% a year in 2023
- Fertility rateBelize: 2.01 births per woman in 2023Mexico: 1.91 births per woman in 2023
- Urban populationBelize: 41.6% in 2025Mexico: 80% in 2025
- Median ageBelize: 26 years in 2023Mexico: 28.9 years in 2023
- People aged 65 and overBelize: 4.8% in 2023Mexico: 8% in 2023
- Net migration rateBelize: 1.4 per 1,000 people in 2023Mexico: -0.8 per 1,000 people in 2023
Economy
Education
Conflict
Military
- Military spendingBelize: 1% of GDP in 2025Mexico: 0.74% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollarsBelize: $32.9M in 2025Mexico: $13.8B in 2025
- Military spending per personBelize: $79 in 2025Mexico: $104 in 2025
- Military share of state spendingBelize: 3.7% of government spending in 2025Mexico: 2.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnelBelize: 2,000 people in 2020Mexico: 341,000 people in 2020
- National powerBelize: 0% of world capability in 2022Mexico: 1.14% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workersBelize: 1.32% of the labour force in 2020Mexico: 0.64% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms importsBelize: 1 million TIV in 2023Mexico: 9 million TIV in 2025
Climate
Technology and environment
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Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, UCDP, SIPRI, IISS, Correlates of War, ERA5, CMIP6, EDGAR, ITU and FAO. Each measure’s page names its own and what it counts.
- Values are drawn on today’s borders. Years without a published value are left empty, never filled in.
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