Population and Ethnic group
According to United Nations Projection data, in 2022 Mexico has the total population of 131 million people while the birthrate in 2021 was 16.89% per 1000 people. With this population, the woman rate was 50.7% while man rate was only 49.3%. Due to the Mexico median age, at least 26% of the total population are above 14 years and 8% are older than 65 and the remain number are people who are at the age between 15-65. Due to the covid19 pandemic, it had brought the increase rate of poverty by 7.3% in Mexico. There are around 40 of ethnic groups and the largest ethnic group was Mestizo and the population of Mexico Mestizo is more than 60% compare to the total population.
- History of birth rates
- intense demographic increase between 1930 and 1980 due to the “Mexican Miracle”
- Government invested in efficient social programs that
- reduced infant mortality rates
- increased life expectancy
- Government invested in efficient social programs that
- Nowadays, birthrates are plummiting
- Good thing because Mexico has had an issue of overpopulation which leads to illegal immigrations to US 1
- There’s more women of childbearing age than ever before, but no one wanting children (?)
- Explanations
- There’s more contraception and family planning knowledge
- “Demographic Transition”: where modernizing states have less kids in general as time goes on (?)
- Explanations
- intense demographic increase between 1930 and 1980 due to the “Mexican Miracle”
- Mortality:
- At least 440,000 Mexicans have died of covid-19, according to official estimates — one of the world’s highest tolls. 2
- Age groups:
- is the population young? why?
- has the population growth stopped or reversed why?
- Urbanization levels:
- “In total, about 78.84% of the population of the country lives in urban areas, and only about 21.16% in rural ones.” 3
- “Approximately 50% of the population lives in one of the 55 large metropolitan areas in the country.”
- past ethnic conflicts
- Who controls natural resources
- Are there tension between social groups?
- How having many or few ethnic group affect economic growth. Why?