Mexico: Summary
Demographics |
Economy
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Geography |
Water |
| Population:
106.2 million Languages: Spanish, various Mayan, Nahuatl and other regional indigenous languages Religions: Nominally Roman Catholic 89%, Protestant 6%, other 5% Ethnic Groups: mestizo (Amerindian-Spanish) 60%, Amerindian or predominantly Amerindian 30%, white 9%, other 1% Life Expectancy: Male: 71; Female: 77 Human Development Index (2005): Value: 0.81; Rank: 53 Literacy Rate: Male: 92.00%; Female: 88.70% Gross Enrolment Ratio (2003): Male: 74%; Female: 76% |
Monetary Unit:
Mexican peso
(MXN) Exchange Rate: Mexican pesos per US dollar – 10.789 (2003) GDP per capita: $9,000 (2003 est.) GDP % growth: 0.9 (2001–2002) Growth Competitiveness Index (2005): Value: 3.92; Rank: 55 Corruption Perceptions Index (2005): Value: 3.50; Rank: 65 |
Capital City:
Mexico City Area: 1,972,550 sq.km. Mean Temperature: 20.4 celcius Mean Precipitation: 3.8 mm/day Mean vapour pressure: 16.6 hPa Mean cloud cover: 50.1% |
Percentage
of population with access to safe drinking water: 91% Percentage of population with access to sanitation: 77% Natural Renewable Water Resources: 4,490 cubic metres per capita (**) The Natural Renewable Water Resources (NRWR) of a country include its Internal Renewable Water Resources plus or minus the flows of surface or ground water (usually rivers) entering or leaving the country. *: <=1,000 cubic metres per capita **: >1,000 - 5,000 cubic metres per capita ***: >5,000 - 50,000 cubic metres per capita ****:>50,000 cubic metres per capita |
Geologic Disasters |
Natural Disasters
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| Average annual impacts
(1980-2005): Number killed: 378.62 Number injured: 4,895.19 Number made homeless: 1,273.96 Number affected: 103,829.65 |
Average annual impacts
(1980-2005): Number killed: 561.46 Number injured: 31,370.58 Number made homeless: 1,308.42 Number affected: 328,011.08 |
| Average annual impacts per
million
population (1980-2005): Number killed: 3.65 Number injured: 47.16 Number made homeless: 12.27 Number affected: 1,000.33 |
Average annual impacts per
million
population (1980-2005): Number killed: 5.41 Number injured: 302.24 Number made homeless: 12.61 Number affected: 3,160.18 |
| Damage costs (1980-2005): Average annual costs: US$ 182,692,308 Average annual costs (% GDP): 0.03% Average annual costs (% GDP per 100,000 km2 land area): 0.00% |
Damage costs (1980-2005): Average annual costs: US$ 445,374,808 Average annual costs (% GDP): 0.07% Average annual costs (% GDP per 100,000 km2 land area): 0.00% |
| Most significant disaster type by: Number killed: Earthquake Number affected: Earthquake Damage costs: Earthquake |
Most significant disaster type by: Number killed: Earthquake Number affected: Wind Storm Damage costs: Earthquake |
| Key events: Earthquake (Mag. 8.1) - 19/9/1985: Deaths - 9,500; Injured - 30,204; Homeless - 100,000; Total affected - 2,130,204; Damage costs $4,104,000,000 Volcano (El Chichon) - 28/3/1982: Deaths - 100; Injured - 500; Homeless - 15,000; Total affected - 40,500; Damage costs $117,000,000 |
Key events: Earthquake (Mag. 8.1) - 19/9/1985: Deaths - 9,500; Injured - 30,204; Homeless - 100,000; Total affected - 2,130,204; Damage costs $4,104,000 Flood - 12/9/1999: Deaths - 636; Injured - 60; Homeless - 86,000; Total affected - 616,060; Damage costs $451,300 |
Hydro-meteorological Disasters |
Natural Disaster Economic Losses
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| Average annual impacts
(1980-2005): Number killed: 180.23 Number injured: 26,475.38 Number made homeless: 34.46 Number affected: 223,738.15 |
Mean annual damage costs
(1980-2005): US$ 445,374,808 per year 0.07% of (2004) GDP per year 0.00% of (2004) GDP per year per 100,000 km2 land area |
| Average annual impacts per
million
population (1980-2005): Number killed: 1.74 Number injured: 255.07 Number made homeless: 0.33 Number affected: 2,155.57 |
Damage costs by disaster type
(1980-2005): Drought - 15%; Earthquake - 40%; Extreme Temperature - 1%; Flood - 12%; Volcano - 1%; Wild Fires - 1%; Wind Storm - 31% |
| Damage costs (1980-2005): Average annual costs: US$ 262,682,500 Average annual costs (% GDP): 0.04% Average annual costs (% GDP per 100,000 km2 land area): 0.00% |
Key events: Earthquake (Mag. 8.1) - 19/9/1985: Deaths - 9,500; Injured - 30,204; Homeless - 100,000; Total affected - 2,130,204; Damage costs $4,104,000,000 Wind Storm (Tropical storm Arlene, Beatriz) - 22/6/1993: Deaths - 7; Injured - 0; Homeless - 0; Total affected - 10,000; Damage costs $1,670,000,000 |
| Most significant disaster type by: Number killed: Wind Storm Number affected: Wind Storm Damage costs: Wind Storm |
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| Key events: Extreme Temperature (Heat wave) - 30/4/1990: Deaths - 380; Injured - 0; Homeless - 0; Total affected - 0; Damage costs $0 Flood - 12/9/1999: Deaths - 636; Injured - 60; Homeless - 86,000; Total affected - 616,060; Damage costs $451,300,000 |
Background: |
| The site of advanced Amerindian civilizations,
Mexico
came under
Spanish rule for three centuries before achieving independence early in
the 19th century. A devaluation of the peso in late 1994 threw Mexico
into economic turmoil, triggering the worst recession in over half a
century. The nation continues to make an impressive recovery. Ongoing
economic and social concerns include low real wages, underemployment
for a large segment of the population, inequitable income distribution,
and few advancement opportunities for the largely Amerindian population
in the impoverished southern states. Elections held in July 2000 marked
the first time since the 1910 Mexican Revolution that the opposition
defeated the party in government, the Institutional Revolutionary Party
(PRI). Vicente FOX of the National Action Party (PAN) was sworn in on 1
December 2000 as the first chief executive elected in free and fair
elections. https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/fields/2028.html |
Resources:
CIA World FactbookMaplecroft.NET Limited
EM-DAT (2006)
UNICEF/ WHO (2004)
World Bank (2005)
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