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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Interestingly, how much closer the two countries' populations were in the past.
Today Canada has a bit over 36 million, Mexico over 127 million.
Mexico is three and a half times more populous than Canada today.
In 1960, Canada had about 18 million. Mexico had about 36 million. Mexico was twice as populous.
In 1930, Canada had about 10 million, Mexico about 16.5 million. Mexico was about one and two thirds times as populous.
In 1910, Canada had about 7 million, Mexico had 15 million. Mexico was about a bit more than twice as populous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Mexico
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_of_Canada |
Man, Mexico grew like a beast.
And like you said, Mexico is more than just the border areas. I had the opportunity to a spend a few weeks in Cancun and Puebla two years ago and the latter was probably as big as some of the larger US cities with a nice historic core.
I know we are all mostly Americans and Canadians on here, but we tend to forget that Mexico and Latin America in general have urban centers just as old and sometimes larger than even our own largest cities.