Is Mexico City a poor country?

Answer 1

Yes, why else are there so many mexicans immigrating into the U.S. ? Because they don't want to live in Mexico ( ' The Land of Opportunity ' my ass, that's just another way of saying " This country sucks and we're leaving. " ) If you're a TRUE patriot to you're country, then you'll stay IN YOUR COUNTRY instead of leaving just because ' The living conditions here are starting to get bad ' This kind of thing is called being a TRAITER to you're own nation !

Answer 2

Mexico is a Upper-Middle income nation, with a GDP (PP) of $13,200, a HDI (Human Development Index) of .850, and a poverty rate of 13% with a Food based definition, and 17% if asset based poverty is added in. It cannot be classified as a developing nation, because it has higher standards of living, better education, health-care, and an expansive infrastructure, not typical of developing nations.

To answer your question, Mexico is not a developing nation, but an Upper-middle income nation, in transition to developed status.

Answer 3

Mexico City is rich but many other cities are poor:

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a ranking created by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to measure countries or regions according to three basic population parameters: health, education and income. For Mexico, the Federal District (which contains most of Mexico City) and Nuevo Leon had the highest HDI in 2004 (0.8837 and 0.8513, respectively), while the lowest corresponded to Chiapas (0.7185) and Oaxaca (0.7336). For comparision, the Federal District's HDI corresponds to that of the Czech Republic, while Oaxaca corresponds to that of Vietnam.

Answer 4

Mexico is considered to be a "Developing Country" or "Emerging Market", meaning it is both a rich and a poor country at the same time:

The Human Development Index (HDI) is a ranking created by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to measure countries or regions according to three basic population parameters: health, education and income. For Mexico, which is composed by 31 states and one federal district, the Federal District and Nuevo Leon had the highest HDI in 2004 (0.8837 and 0.8513, respectively), while the lowest corresponded to Chiapas(0.7185) and Oaxaca (0.7336). As a comparison, the Federal District and Nuevo Leon indexes are equivalent to those of the Czech Republic and Lithuania while Chiapas and Oaxaca correspond to those of Vietnam and Iran.

On a municipality level, this contrasts are much more dramatic: The Benito Juarez district (Federal District), the San Pedro Garza Garcia municipality (Nuevo Leon) and the San Sebastian Tula municipality (Oaxaca) have the highest HDI in Mexico (0.9509, 0.95, 0.9204, respectively) which correspond to the life quality levels of Norway, Australia and Spain. By contrast, Tehuipango (Veracruz, 0.4985), Coicoyan de las Flores(Oaxaca, 0.4768), Batopilas (Chihuahua, 0.4734) and Cochoapa el Grande (Guerrero, 0.4354) correspond to the quality of life of Madagascar, Haiti, Kenya and Benin.

Answer 5

In volume terms, no. In per capita terms, Mexico is much richer than China:

• GDP (US$ billions):
  • China: 10,084.8
  • Mexico: 1,652.2

• GDP Per Capita (US$):
  • Mexico: 15,010
  • China: 7,570

Answer 6

Unknown. In order to become fully industrialized, Mexico needs to overcome many issues and entrenched policies that have lasted for centuries. I would dare to say it has many plans such as:

• Fulfilling the UN Millennium goals, with objectives such as eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, reducing mortality rate to a minimum and ensuring environmental sustainability by 2015. By 2010 most of these goals have been already met.
• Reduce dependency on oil exports, as by 2020 Mexican oil reserves will be gone.
• Becoming an industrialized nation with an income per capita of US$16,000 by 2025-2030.
• Becoming the 5th largest economy in the world by 2050.
• Improve health of Mexican people, as Mexico has become the second most 'obese' country in the world and by 2050 it will reach population stability (zero growth).

Answer 7

Mexico City is not a country.