Mexico City — UN urban centre
Mexico City: 17,734,212 people. Reference: 2025 annual estimate · World rank #15 of 12,138 source urban centres. Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (CC BY 3.0 IGO). Source identifier: 5439; territory: Mexico (MEX). UN source workbook.
Method: Degree of Urbanisation (contiguous 1 km2 cells, density 1,500+ people/km2, total 50,000+). This is a source-defined urban centre, not a municipality or province. No association with a separate administrative entity is inferred from proximity or name.
Source centroid: 19.4448, -99.1049. National context uses World Bank estimates, a separate series and geography; no national share is inferred here.
UN population series
| Year | People | Method |
|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 11,119,402 | Estimate |
| 1980 | 13,216,145 | Estimate |
| 1985 | 14,354,636 | Estimate |
| 1990 | 15,602,020 | Estimate |
| 1995 | 16,617,208 | Estimate |
| 2000 | 17,598,162 | Estimate |
| 2005 | 17,873,392 | Estimate |
| 2010 | 18,329,145 | Estimate |
| 2015 | 18,955,463 | Estimate |
| 2020 | 17,610,488 | Estimate |
| 2025 | 17,734,212 | Estimate |
| 2030 | 17,829,110 | Projection |
| 2035 | 17,908,986 | Projection |
| 2040 | 17,882,165 | Projection |
| 2045 | 17,834,797 | Projection |
| 2050 | 17,678,777 | Projection |
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