- ISO 3166
MX- Main language + region
es-MX- Currency
- MXN · Mexican Peso
- Region
- LATAM
Mexico
Mexico has 130.7M people, and 108.7M of them are online. Spanish is the most widely spoken language at 83%, one of 7 languages CLDR lists here. Spanish is official nationally. A product shipping here defaults to es-MX.
Market summary
Each figure carries its own world scale, so it reads without a second market beside it.
People online
108.7M
0%world median 81%100%
83% of 130.7M people use the internet, per the World Bank's 2024 figure. Estimated by multiplying CLDR population by that share.
Income per person
$13,889
Higher than 57% of 213 territories
GDP per capita in current US dollars, World Bank Open Data, most recent reported year. A rough guide to spending power, not revenue.
Can pay online
53%
0%world median 71%100%
Adults aged 15 and over holding a bank or mobile-money account, World Bank Global Findex 2024. Below half means a card-only checkout excludes most of the market.
Languages
7
Spanish 83% · English 13% · Yucateco 0.7%
Languages CLDR records here with a share of 0.1% or more. 1 of them is official nationally.
English proficiency
440
Very lowVery high
Very low proficiency on the EF EPI 2025 scale. The sample is self-selected online test takers. It never enters any score on this site.
Adult literacy
94%
0%world median 95%100%
Share of adults who can read, as recorded in CLDR territory data. Low literacy shifts a product toward icons, audio, and video before another language.
What people speak
Shares include second languages, so totals can exceed 100%.
Most spoken in Mexico
share of 130.7M people
- Spanishofficial83%108.5M
- English13%17M
- Yucateco0.7%876K
- Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl0.4%509.9K
- Western Huasteca Nahuatl0.4%509.9K
- Central Mazahua0.4%444.5K
- Central Huasteca Nahuatl0.2%248.4K
Filled bars are nationally official languages. Bars are scaled to the largest language rather than to 100%.
CLDR records Spanish in 36 territories and 507.3M speakers in total; Mexico holds 21% of them, and the rest come with the same translation. The Spanish profile maps the whole footprint.
Day-one requirements
What the interface needs for the main language spoken here (es-MX).
Plural categories
3
Word-forms a translator writes for counted text, like English's "1 item" and "2 items".
Script family
Latin
Default system fonts cover this script on all major platforms.
Reading direction
Left-to-right
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Date
21 de abril de 2026
Short: 21/04/26
Time
6:30 p.m.
Week starts Sun
Currency
$1,234.56
1,234.56 in MXN · Mexican Peso