Country comparison: Argentina / Mexico

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Argentina and Mexico. For further information and explanations, we provide many details per country that go far beyond this comparison. For example, there are separate sub-pages for both countries on economy, climate, energy, refugees, inflation, population and much more.
In addition, we offer several international comparisons on individual topics, which are also linked on this page.

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

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	Argentina	Mexico
Population:	45,809,000	130,262,000
Inhabitants/km²:	16.5	66.3
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 ‰	-0.76 ‰

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:	40	49
Civil rights:	42	33
Health:	79	54
Climate:	78	82
Cost of Living:	41	34
Popularity:	34	53

Economy

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	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:	10,050 US$	9,380 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	69 (bad)

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	491,493 M US$	10.73 M US$	1,293,038 M US$	9.93 M US$
Gross national product:	460,455 M US$	10.05 M US$	1,221,492 M US$	9.38 M US$
Exported goods:	87,345 M US$	1.91 M US$	521,807 M US$	4.01 M US$
Imported goods:	72,126 M US$	1.57 M US$	544,687 M US$	4.18 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	281,290 km	6.14 km	704,884 km	5.41 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	0.0044	671	0.0052
Passenger airports:	47	0.0010	67	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	ARG: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Energy consumption:	121.00 bn kWh	2.64 m kWh	258.70 bn kWh	1.99 m kWh
Energy production:	131.90 bn kWh	2.88 m kWh	302.70 bn kWh	2.32 m kWh
Energy export:	55.00 m kWh	1,200.64 kWh	7.31 bn kWh	56,102.22 kWh
Energy imports:	9.85 bn kWh	215,046.27 kWh	3.53 bn kWh	27,114.54 kWh
CO2 emissions:	168.10 m t	3,669.60 t	449.27 m t	3,448.97 t

Telecommunication

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	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	161	24,500,456	188
Mobile cellulars:	54,763,900	1195	122,898,392	943
Internet server:	11,232,000	245	16,233,000	125
Internet users:	39,166,479	855	93,747,367	720
Broadband Internet:	9,571,562	209	21,936,131	168

Healthcare system

Details for Argentina and Mexico

	Argentina	Mexico
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	4.99	0.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	3.96	2.25
Diabetes:	5.9 %	13.5 %
HIV:	0.21 %	0.23 %
Tuberculosis:	0.31 ‰	0.24 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	47.0 %	72.0 %
Smokers:	24.5 %	13.1 %

Climate

We also provide a more detailed climate comparison of both countries.
The data for each country can be found here: Argentina and Mexico

	Argentina	Mexico
Daytime temperatures:	24.0 °C	29.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	11.5 °C	16.2 °C
Water temperature:	9.8 °C	25.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	68 %	66 %
Rain days:	4.8	5.9
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 %

Data inventory and updates

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