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Just for the very curious. Mexico has 1,958,200 square kilometers or 761,606 square miles of area. These translated into square feet would equal 2.105x1013 sq ft or 21.05 trillion, square feet.
Nowadays (2014), there are some 63 people per square kilometer (161 per sq mi) in Mexico.
Seven people per square mile.
The population density in Mexico is of 142 people per square mile.
As opposed to what? Living in the streets? More than 21.16 million people live under a rooftop in Mexico City.
20 MILLION
Four of them do:Mexico City: 20,137,152Guadalajara: 4,434,252Monterrey: 4,080,329Puebla: 2,668,347
It didn't. Its just that many people have found the house market too expensive to live there. That is one of the reasons many people live on the periphery of Mexico City.
From an economically active population of 12.06 million people, unemployment rate in Mexico city is estimated at 6.65% or 802,000 people without a job.
Mexico City is the cultural, political and economic capital of Mexico. Built atop the ruins of the ancient Aztec city of Tenochtitlan, throughout the years it has become the largest city in Mexico, and its greater metropolitan area is one of the largest in the world. According to Mexico's National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), greater Mexico City is composed by the whole Federal District (16 boroughs), 59 municipalities of the state of Mexico and 1 municipality of the state of Hidalgo. This area is home to roughly 18% or almost one fifth of total Mexican population (est. 2010):City (Federal District only): 8,841,916Greater Metropolitan Area: 21,163,226
No. Many people speak English due to tourism and business-related activities, but it is nowhere near being a bilingual city.
According to several NGOs, there are between 15,000 and 30,000 people living in Mexico City streets. There are no exact statistics regarding number of females among them. For comparison purposes, New York City, which has almost the same population as Mexico City, has 60,000 homeless people as of 2013.