Country comparison: Brazil / Mexico

This country comparison is a concise, tabular overview of numerous data from our respective country pages for Brazil and Mexico. There, we provide many explanations and details per country that go far beyond this comparison.

General information

	Brazil	Mexico
Region:	South America	Central America
Area:	8,515,770 km²	1,964,375 km²
National language:	Portuguese	Spanish
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Federal presidential republic
Independent since:	1822 AD	1810 AD
Capital:	Brasilia	Mexico City

Population

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	Brazil	Mexico
Population:	214,326,000	126,705,000
Inhabitants/km²:	25.2	64.5
Life expectancy males:	Ø 71 years	Ø 66 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 77 years	Ø 74 years
Average age:	Ø 33.2 years	Ø 29.3 years
Birth rate:	13.08 ‰	15.57 ‰
Death rate:	7.42 ‰	9.33 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.19 ‰	-0.77 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Brazil	Mexico
Political stability:	46	52
Civil rights:	44	33
Health:	59	45
Climate:	65	82
Cost of Living:	41	30
Popularity:	31	53

Economy

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	Brazil	Mexico
Currency:	Brazilian real (1 BRL = 100 Centavos)	Mexican peso (1 MXN =100 Centavos)
Unemployment rate:	9.5 %	3.3 %
Inflation rate:	9.28 %	7.90 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	49.77 %	59.01 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	65.10 %	55.10 %
Average income:	7,740 US$	9,590 US$
Corruption index:	62 (bad)	69 (bad)

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,608,981 M US$	7.51 M US$	1,272,839 M US$	10.05 M US$
Gross national product:	1,658,600 M US$	7.74 M US$	1,214,991 M US$	9.59 M US$
Exported goods:	379,783 M US$	1.77 M US$	522,235 M US$	4.12 M US$
Imported goods:	375,639 M US$	1.75 M US$	544,752 M US$	4.30 M US$

Infrastructure

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	2,000,000 km	9.33 km	704,884 km	5.56 km
Railways:	29,850 km	0.14 km	20,825 km	0.16 km
Waterways:	50,000 km	0.23 km	2,900 km	0.02 km
Harbours:	864	0.0040	671	0.0053
Passenger airports:	116	0.0005	67	0.0005

Energy balance

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	BRA: total	per 1000 inh.	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	1.709 tn kWh	7.97 m kWh	818.45 bn kWh	6.46 m kWh
Energy consumption:	541.00 bn kWh	2.52 m kWh	267.34 bn kWh	2.11 m kWh
Energy production:	622.01 bn kWh	2.90 m kWh	305.45 bn kWh	2.41 m kWh
Energy export:	395.00 m kWh	1,842.98 kWh	5.95 bn kWh	46,990.99 kWh
Energy imports:	25.11 bn kWh	117,171.85 kWh	9.97 bn kWh	78,647.17 kWh
CO2 emissions:	434.30 m t	2,026.35 t	449.27 m t	3,545.79 t

Telecommunication

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	Brazil	Mexico
International dialing:	+55	+52
Internet domain:	.br	.mx

	BRA total	BRA per 1000 inh.	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	28,883,475	135	24,366,595	192
Mobile cellulars:	219,660,524	1025	123,920,752	978
Internet server:	26,577,000	124	16,233,000	128
Internet users:	174,338,723	813	91,187,400	720
Broadband Internet:	41,657,433	194	24,200,214	191

Healthcare system

Details for Brazil and Mexico

	Brazil	Mexico
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	2.09	0.98
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.15	2.25
Diabetes:	10.4 %	13.5 %
Malaria:	5.1 %	0.3 %
HIV:	0.39 %	0.23 %
Tuberculosis:	0.48 ‰	0.25 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	67.0 %	71.0 %
Smokers:	12.8 %	13.1 %

Climate

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

	Brazil	Mexico
Daytime temperatures:	30.6 °C	29.8 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	20.8 °C	16.3 °C
Water temperature:	25.6 °C	25.5 °C
Rel. humidity:	78 %	66 %
Rain days:	8.8	5.9
Sunshine hours per day:	6.6	7.5

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Brazil	Mexico
Portuguese:	93.2 %	n/a
Spanish:	n/a	92.1 %
Náhuatl:	n/a	1.8 %
Yucatec:	n/a	1.1 %
Zapotec:	n/a	0.6 %
Mixtec:	n/a	0.6 %
German:	0.5 %	n/a
Otomí:	n/a	0.4 %
Italian:	0.3 %	n/a
Japanese:	0.2 %	n/a
Quechua:	0.1 %	n/a
other:	5.7 %	3.4 %

Religions

	Brazil	Mexico
Christianity:	87.5 %	90.7 %
Nondenominational:	8.0 %	4.7 %
Spiritualism:	2.2 %	n/a
other:	2.3 %	4.6 %

Data inventory and updates

A country comparison like this can be based on several hundred individual data items from dozens of different sources. All data are based on the most recent data available to us. Most of them refer to the previous year and are updated around March of the following year. If a country has not yet published data for the most recent or penultimate year, we present the most recent official data. Updates are made on an ongoing basis depending on the subject area or source, so there is no single "cutoff date" for this comparison. Sources for almost all data can be found on our respective country pages.

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