Country comparison: Mexico / Puerto Rico

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

General information

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Region:	Central America	Caribbean
Area:	1,964,375 km²	8,870 km²
National language:	Spanish	Spanish, English
Government form:	Federal presidential republic	Presidential democracy (unincorporated territory of the US)
Capital:	Mexico City	San Juan

Population

Details for Mexico and Puerto Rico

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Population:	126,705,000	3,264,000
Inhabitants/km²:	64.5	367.9
Life expectancy males:	Ø 66 years	Ø 74 years
Life expectancy females:	Ø 74 years	Ø 83 years
Average age:	Ø 29.3 years	Ø 43.6 years
Birth rate:	15.57 ‰	6.00 ‰
Death rate:	9.33 ‰	9.60 ‰
Migrationrate:	-0.77 ‰	-10.76 ‰

Quality of life

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

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Political stability:	52	68
Civil rights:	33	68
Health:	45	86
Climate:	82	71
Cost of Living:	30	18
Popularity:	53	9

Economy

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Currency:	Mexican peso (1 MXN = 100 Centavos)	US dollar (1 USD =100 Cents)
Unemployment rate:	3.3 %	6.0 %
Cost of Living: (USA = 100%)	59.01 %	97.69 %
Commercial taxes and contributions:	55.10 %	64.40 %
Average income:	9,590 US$	22,580 US$
Corruption index:	69 (bad)	37 (moderate)

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Gross domestic product:	1,272,839 M US$	10.05 M US$	106,526 M US$	32.64 M US$
Gross national product:	1,214,991 M US$	9.59 M US$	73,678 M US$	22.58 M US$
Exported goods:	522,235 M US$	4.12 M US$	73,170 M US$	22.42 M US$
Imported goods:	544,752 M US$	4.30 M US$	49,010 M US$	15.02 M US$

Infrastructure

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Roadways:	704,884 km	5.56 km	26,862 km	8.23 km
Passenger airports:	67	0.0005	6	0.0018

Energy balance

Details for Mexico and Puerto Rico

	MEX: total	per 1000 inh.	PRI: total	per 1000 inh.
Production capacity:	818.45 bn kWh	6.46 m kWh	54.14 bn kWh	16.59 m kWh
Energy consumption:	267.34 bn kWh	2.11 m kWh	15.20 bn kWh	4.66 m kWh
Energy production:	305.45 bn kWh	2.41 m kWh	17.70 bn kWh	5.42 m kWh
Energy export:	5.95 bn kWh	46,990.99 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
Energy imports:	9.97 bn kWh	78,647.17 kWh	0.00 kWh	0.00 kWh
CO2 emissions:	449.27 m t	3,545.76 t	0.00 t	0.00 t

Telecommunication

Details for Mexico and Puerto Rico

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
International dialing:	+52	+1-787
Internet domain:	.mx	.pr

	MEX total	MEX per 1000 inh.	PRI total	PRI per 1000 inh.
Landlines:	24,366,595	192	726,739	223
Mobile cellulars:	123,920,752	978	3,661,176	1122
Internet server:	16,233,000	128	469	0
Internet users:	91,187,400	720	2,536,994	777
Broadband Internet:	24,200,214	191	671,284	206

Healthcare system

Details for Mexico and Puerto Rico

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Hospital beds per 1000 inh.:	0.98	3.32
Physicians per 1000 inh.:	2.25	1.75
Diabetes:	13.5 %	13.7 %
Tuberculosis:	0.25 ‰	0.01 ‰
Tuberculosis cure rate:	71.0 %	74.0 %

Climate

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

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Daytime temperatures:	29.8 °C	30.4 °C
Nighttime temperatures:	16.3 °C	24.1 °C
Water temperature:	25.5 °C	27.1 °C
Rel. humidity:	66 %	75 %
Rain days:	5.9	13.5
Sunshine hours per day:	7.5	8.1

Maximum daily temperatures in comparison
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Native languages

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Spanish:	92.1 %	94.3 %
English:	n/a	5.5 %
Náhuatl:	1.8 %	n/a
Yucatec:	1.1 %	n/a
Mixtec:	0.6 %	n/a
Zapotec:	0.6 %	n/a
Otomí:	0.4 %	n/a
other:	3.4 %	0.2 %

Religions

	Mexico	Puerto Rico
Christianity:	90.7 %	85.0 %
Nondenominational:	4.7 %	n/a
other:	4.6 %	15.0 %

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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