Mexico
Mexico in numbers
39 measures of Mexico from 1789 to 2025, each charted year by year with where it comes from. Where a source publishes projections, they run on to 2100, drawn apart from the estimates.
Every measure
Health
People
Economy
Education
Politics
Conflict
Military
- Military spending0.74% of GDP in 2025
- Military spending in US dollars$13.8B in 2025
- Military spending per person$104 in 2025
- Military share of state spending2.5% of government spending in 2025
- Armed forces personnel341,000 people in 2020
- National power1.14% of world capability in 2022
- Armed forces, share of workers0.64% of the labour force in 2020
- Arms imports9 million TIV in 2025
- Arms exports1 million TIV in 2019
Climate
Technology and environment
Compare Mexico with…
- Mexico vs India
- Mexico vs China
- Mexico vs United States
- Mexico vs Indonesia
- Mexico vs Pakistan
- Mexico vs Nigeria
- Mexico vs Brazil
- Mexico vs Bangladesh
- Mexico vs Russia
- Mexico vs Ethiopia
- Mexico vs Japan
- Mexico vs Egypt
- Mexico vs Philippines
- Mexico vs Congo - Kinshasa
- Mexico vs Vietnam
- Mexico vs Iran
- Mexico vs Türkiye
- Mexico vs Germany
- Mexico vs Thailand
- Mexico vs Tanzania
- Mexico vs United Kingdom
- Mexico vs France
- Mexico vs South Africa
- Mexico vs Italy
- Mexico vs Kenya
- Mexico vs Myanmar (Burma)
- Mexico vs Colombia
- Mexico vs South Korea
- Mexico vs Sudan
- Mexico vs Spain
- Mexico vs Argentina
- Mexico vs Canada
- Mexico vs Saudi Arabia
- Mexico vs Poland
- Mexico vs Peru
- Mexico vs Venezuela
- Mexico vs Australia
- Mexico vs Chile
- Mexico vs Guatemala
- Mexico vs Ecuador
- Mexico vs Netherlands
- Mexico vs Bolivia
- Mexico vs Belgium
- Mexico vs Haiti
- Mexico vs Dominican Republic
- Mexico vs United Arab Emirates
- Mexico vs Honduras
- Mexico vs Cuba
- Mexico vs Sweden
- Mexico vs Israel
- Mexico vs Austria
- Mexico vs Switzerland
- Mexico vs Singapore
- Mexico vs Ireland
- Mexico vs Belize
Good to know
- Sources: UN, Gapminder and UN IGME, WHO/UNICEF, IHME, World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, Our World in Data, V-Dem, 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.
- 2 measures are climate model output, marked as modelled: not measurements.
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