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Official. Spanish (99.4%) & 68 native languages [2] Spoken. Languages of Mexico. With a population of about 129 million in 2022, [3] Mexico is the 10th most populated country in the world. It is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world and the third-most populous country in the Americas after the United States and Brazil. [4]
The Censo de Población y Vivienda (Population and Housing Census) is the main national population census for Mexico.It is compiled by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), a decentralized agency of the Mexican Federal government, with the purpose of collating and reporting detailed demographic, socioeconomic and geographical data from across the nation, and is conducted ...
Mexico, [ a][ b] officially the United Mexican States, [ c] is a country in the southern portion of North America. Covering 1,972,550 km 2 (761,610 sq mi), [ 11] it is the world's 13th largest country by area; with a population of almost 130 million, it is the 10th most populous country and has the most Spanish speakers in the world. [ 12]
The following table is a list of the 31 federal states of Mexico plus Mexico City, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the last three National Population Census in 2020, 2010 and 2000.
Population density (people per km 2) by country. This is a list of countries and dependencies ranked by population density, sorted by inhabitants per square kilometre or square mile. The list includes sovereign states and self-governing dependent territories based upon the ISO standard ISO 3166-1.
In 1524, the municipality of Mexico City was established, known as México Tenochtitlán, [22] and as of 1585, it was officially known as Ciudad de México (Mexico City). [22] Mexico City played a major role in the Spanish colonial empire as a political, administrative, and financial center. [23] Following independence from Spain, the federal ...
Immigration to Mexico has been important in shaping the country's demographics. Since the early 16th century, with the arrival of the Spanish, Mexico has received immigrants from Europe, Africa, the Americas (particularly the United States and Central America), and Asia. Today, millions of their descendants still live in Mexico and can be found ...
According to the CDI, the states with the greatest percentage of indigenous population are: [84] Yucatán, with 65.40%, Quintana Roo with 44.44% and Campeche with 44.54% of the population being indigenous, most of them Maya; Oaxaca with 65.73% of the population, the most numerous groups being the Mixtec and Zapotec peoples; Chiapas has 36.15% ...