If you were born in Mexico
In 2023, about 1 in 65 babies on Earth was born in Mexico: 2,037,689 births in the year, about 3.9 every minute (UN World Population Prospects 2024).
A baby born in Mexico today can expect to live 75.1 years, which ranks 89 of 194 countries and regions.
The numbers
| Here | World | United States | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Babies born here | 1 in 65 | — | 1 in 36 |
| Life expectancy at birth | 75.1 | 70.2 | 79.3 |
| Women / men | 77.8 / 72.2 | — | 81.8 / 76.9 |
| Children who die before 5 | 1.2% | 3.7% | 0.6% |
| Children per woman | 1.91 | 2.87 | 1.62 |
| Live in cities | 80% | 51% | 80% |
| Income per person (PPP $) | $25,820 | $17,038 | $86,170 |
| Income inequality (Gini) | 42.6 | 34.6 | 41.8 |
| Finish primary school | 100% | 86% | 96% |
| Finish middle school | 87% | 72% | 100% |
| Enrol in university | 48% | 35% | 79% |
| Women’s age at first marriage | 23.2 | 22.7 | 27.5 |
| Men’s age at first marriage | 25.9 | 27.0 | 29.2 |
| Use the internet | 83% | 60% | 95% |
| Health costs paid out of pocket | 41% | 41% | 11% |
2,000 lives born here
We ran the 1in8b life engine 2,000 times with every baby born in Mexico, using the same data as the game. Of those lives:
- 99%reached age 5
- 99%reached 18
- 78%reached 65
- 49%reached 80
- 79median age at death
- 98%finished primary school
- 79%finished high school
- 36%graduated from university
- 91%of adults ever married
- 1.9children on average
- 2.9%lost a child under 18
- 13%of 30-year-olds at work were farming
Simulated lives follow the national averages. Where you are born in a country, and to whom, changes them a great deal.
You don’t get to choose
In 1in8b you are born where the world’s babies are actually born. There is a 1 in 65 chance it is Mexico.
Be born at randomSources: UN World Population Prospects 2024 (births, life tables, fertility); World Bank and ILO (income, schooling, work, marriage, health). Latest year available for each figure.