Country comparison Argentina : Mexico

General information

	Argentina	Mexico
Region:	South America	Central America
Area:	2,780,400 km²	1,964,375 km²
Official language:	Spanish	Spanish
Government form:	Presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1816 AD	1810 AD
Capital:	Buenos Aires	Mexico City

Population

	Argentina	Mexico
Population:	45,377,000	128,933,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.3	65.6
Life expectancy males:	Ø 73 years	Ø 72 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 80 years	Ø 78 years
Average age:	Ø 32.4 years	Ø 29.3 years
Birthrate:	16.64 ‰	17.01 ‰
Deathrate:	7.60 ‰	6.15 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.08 ‰	-1.46 ‰

Quality of life

Values from 0 (bad) to 100 (very good)
See also: Explanations and country ranking on quality of life

	Argentina	Mexico
Political stability:	41	45
Civil rights:	44	37
Health:	79	54
Climate:	77	83
Cost of Living:	41	35
Popularity:	38	68

Economy

	Argentina	Mexico
Currency:	Argentine Peso (1 ARS = 100 Centavos)	Mexican Peso (1 MXN =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	10.9 %	4.4 %
Inflation rate:	53.55 %	5.69 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	106.30 %	55.10 %
Average income:	9,070 US$	8,480 US$
Corruption index:	38 (bad)	31 (bad)

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	389,288 M US$	8.58 M US$	1,073,916 M US$	8.33 M US$
Gross national product:	411,595 M US$	9.07 M US$	1,092,872 M US$	8.48 M US$
Exported goods:	64,345 M US$	1.42 M US$	434,179 M US$	3.37 M US$
Imported goods:	51,954 M US$	1.14 M US$	411,255 M US$	3.19 M US$

Infrastructure

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	281,290 km	6.20 km	398,148 km	3.09 km
Railways:	36,917 km	0.81 km	20,825 km	0.16 km
Waterways:	11,000 km	0.24 km	2,900 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	202	0.004	671	0.005
Airports:	916	0.020	1,714	0.013

Energy balance

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	121.00 bn kWh	2.67 m kWh	258.70 bn kWh	2.01 m kWh
Energy production:	131.90 bn kWh	2.91 m kWh	302.70 bn kWh	2.35 m kWh
Energy export:	55.00 m kWh	1,212.07 kWh	7.31 bn kWh	56,680.71 kWh
Energy imports:	9.85 bn kWh	217,093.49 kWh	3.53 bn kWh	27,394.13 kWh
CO2 emissions:	177.41 m t	3,909.71 t	472.14 m t	3,661.91 t

Telecommunication

	Argentina	Mexico
International dialing:	+54	+52
Internet domain:	.ar	.mx

	ARG total	ARG per 1000 inh.	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	7,356,165	162	23,800,105	185
Mobile cellulars:	54,763,900	1207	120,481,969	934
Internet server:	11,232,000	248	16,233,000	126
Internet users:	33,712,621	743	92,792,902	720
Broadband Internet:	9,571,562	211	21,936,131	170

Healthcare system

	Argentina	Mexico
Hospital beds per 1000 pop.:	4.99	0.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.96	2.25
Diabetes:	5.9 %	13.5 %
HIV:	0.22 %	0.27 %
Tuberculosis:	0.3 %	0.2 %
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	72.0 %
Smokers:	24.5 %	13.1 %

Climate

Detailed info for: Argentina and Mexico

	Argentina	Mexico
Daytime temperatures:	24.0 °C	29.3 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.5 °C	15.5 °C
Water temperature:	9.8 °C	25.2 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	63 %
Rain days:	4.8	6.2
Sunshine hours per day:	6.8	7.5

Native languages

	Argentina	Mexico
Spanish:	96.8 %	92.1 %
Náhuatl:	n/a	1.8 %
Italian:	1.7 %	n/a
Yucatec:	n/a	1.1 %
Zapotec:	n/a	0.6 %
Mixtec:	n/a	0.6 %
Quechua:	0.4 %	n/a
Otomí:	n/a	0.4 %
other:	1.1 %	3.4 %

Religions

	Argentina	Mexico
Christianity:	94.0 %	90.7 %
Nondenominational:	n/a	4.7 %
Jewry:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	5.6 %	4.6 %