Mexico’s coastline is 23% longer than Italy’s

Italy: 7,600 km (2026 edition) · Mexico: 9,330 km (2026 edition)

Mexico’s highest peak towers 888 m above Italy’s

Italy: 4,748 m (2026 edition) · Mexico: 5,636 m (2026 edition)

Farmland covers 51% of Mexico, versus 44% of Italy

Italy: 43.6% (2024) · Mexico: 50.6% (2024)

Mexico has 2.2 times as many people as Italy

Italy: 58.9 million (2025) · Mexico: 132 million (2025)

Italy is 2.9 times as densely populated as Mexico

Italy: 199 per km² (2025) · Mexico: 68 per km² (2025)

The typical person in Italy is 19 years older than in Mexico

Italy: 47.5 years (2023) · Mexico: 28.9 years (2023)

Women in Mexico have 0.7 more children on average than in Italy

Italy: 1.18 children per woman (2024) · Mexico: 1.89 children per woman (2024)

25% of people in Italy are 65 or older, versus 8.5% in Mexico

Italy: 25.1% (2025) · Mexico: 8.5% (2025)

Italy hosts 2.8 times as many refugees per resident as Mexico

Italy: 3.3 per 1,000 (2025) · Mexico: 1.2 per 1,000 (2025)

Italy has produced 3.4 Nobel laureates per 10 million people, Mexico 0.2

Italy: 3.4 (2026) · Mexico: 0.2 (2026)

Italy and Mexico are practically level

Italy: 1 (2026) · Mexico: 1 (2026)

Italy’s economy is 39% larger than Mexico’s

Italy: $2.55 trillion (2025) · Mexico: $1.83 trillion (2025)

Italy produces 2.4 times as much per person as Mexico

Italy: Int$62,803 (2025) · Mexico: Int$25,869 (2025)

Income is more unequally shared in Mexico than in Italy (Gini 8.3 points higher)

Italy: 34.3 (2023) · Mexico: 42.6 (2024)

1.6% of people in Mexico live on less than $3 a day, versus 0.9% in Italy

Italy: 0.9% (2023) · Mexico: 1.6% (2024)

Unemployment is 6.4% in Italy, versus 2.7% in Mexico

Italy: 6.4% (2025) · Mexico: 2.7% (2025)

Italy spends 1.9% of its GDP on the military, Mexico 0.7%

Italy: 1.9% (2025) · Mexico: 0.7% (2025)

Italy’s central government collects 26% of GDP in tax, Mexico’s 15%

Italy: 25.6% (2024) · Mexico: 14.8% (2024)

Italy’s price level (US = 100) is 1.3× Mexico’s

Italy: 69% (2025) · Mexico: 54% (2025)

Italy spends 4.5 times as much on health per person as Mexico

Italy: $3,398 (2024) · Mexico: $761 (2023)

A baby in Mexico is 5.3 times as likely to die before turning one as in Italy

Italy: 2.3 per 1,000 (2024) · Mexico: 12.1 per 1,000 (2024)

Italy has 62% more doctors per person than Mexico

Italy: 4.2 per 1,000 (2022) · Mexico: 2.6 per 1,000 (2022)

Italy has 3 times as many hospital beds per person as Mexico

Italy: 3.1 per 1,000 (2022) · Mexico: 1 per 1,000 (2022)

The suicide rate in Mexico is 53% higher than in Italy

Italy: 5.7 per 100k (2023) · Mexico: 8.7 per 100k (2023)

37% of adults in Mexico are obese, versus 18% in Italy

Italy: 17.9% (2024) · Mexico: 37.4% (2024)

22% of adults in Italy smoke, versus 16% in Mexico

Italy: 22.4% (2024) · Mexico: 15.7% (2024)

People in Mexico rate their lives 0.40 points higher than in Italy

Italy: 6.57 (2025) · Mexico: 6.97 (2025)

Adults in Italy drink 26% more alcohol than in Mexico

Italy: 8.4 litres (2023) · Mexico: 6.7 litres (2023)

Mexico has 10% more meat per person than Italy

Italy: 71.2 kg (2023) · Mexico: 78.2 kg (2023)

Italy has 448 kcal more food per person per day than Mexico

Italy: 3,753 kcal (2023) · Mexico: 3,305 kcal (2023)

Workers in Italy put in 73 more hours a year than in Mexico

Italy: 1,701 hours (2023) · Mexico: 1,629 hours (2023)

Adults in Italy went to school 1.5 years longer than in Mexico

Italy: 10.8 years (2023) · Mexico: 9.3 years (2023)

Italy welcomed 2.8 times as many tourists per resident as Mexico (2019)

Italy: 0.98 (2024) · Mexico: 0.34 (2024)

Italy has 26 more World Heritage sites than Mexico (62 against 36)

Italy: 62 (2026) · Mexico: 36 (2026)

Italy has won 829 Olympic medals, Mexico 77

Italy: 829 (2026 edition) · Mexico: 77 (2026 edition)

89% of people in Italy are online, versus 83% in Mexico

Italy: 89% (2024) · Mexico: 83% (2024)

Home internet in Italy is 80% faster than in Mexico

Italy: 274 Mbps (2026) · Mexico: 152 Mbps (2026)

Italy and Mexico are practically level

Italy: 100% (2024) · Mexico: 99.8% (2024)

80% of people in Mexico live in cities, versus 70% in Italy

Italy: 70% (2025) · Mexico: 80% (2025)

Italy has 133 mobile subscriptions per 100 people, Mexico 116

Italy: 133 (2024) · Mexico: 116 (2024)

Mexico’s railway network is 35% longer than Italy’s

Italy: 17,305 km (2021) · Mexico: 23,389 km (2017)

Airlines from Mexico fly 74% more passengers per resident than those from Italy

Italy: 0.34 (2023) · Mexico: 0.6 (2023)

Forest covers 34% of Mexico, but only 32% of Italy

Italy: 31.8% (2024) · Mexico: 34.2% (2024)

The average person in Italy emits 44% more CO₂ than someone in Mexico

Italy: 5.1 t (2024) · Mexico: 3.5 t (2024)

49% of Italy’s electricity is renewable, versus 23% in Mexico

Italy: 48.8% (2025) · Mexico: 23.1% (2025)

The air in Mexico carries 20% more fine dust than in Italy

Italy: 15.2 µg/m³ (2024) · Mexico: 18.3 µg/m³ (2024)

You are 44 times as likely to be murdered in Mexico as in Italy

Italy: 0.6 per 100k (2023) · Mexico: 24.9 per 100k (2023)

Roads in Mexico are 2.2 times as deadly as in Italy

Italy: 8.5 per 100k (2023) · Mexico: 19.1 per 100k (2023)

Mexico is on average 7.5 °C warmer than Italy

Italy: 13.9°C (2016–2025 avg) · Mexico: 21.4°C (2016–2025 avg)

Italy gets 31% more rain than Mexico

Italy: 1,030 mm (2016–2025 avg) · Mexico: 788 mm (2016–2025 avg)