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Population in Mexico compared to Palau: Trends, Charts, Rankings

Updated on by Georank team

The latest officially reported population of Mexico was 130,861,007 in 2024 vs 17,695 people in Palau in 2024. In 2025, based on the adjusted UN estimation, the current Mexico's population is 132,790,957 people compared to 17,663 in Palau.

Population statistics:

  • Mexico's population is 7,518 times bigger than Palau's.
  • Mexico is ranked the 11th most populous country in the world, while Palau is the 194th.
  • The countries together account for 1.61% of the world: 1.61% for Mexico vs 0.0002% for Palau.
  • For the last 10 years, Mexico has had an average growth rate of +0.92% per year vs +0.02% in Palau.
  • Since 2005, the population of Mexico has increased from 106M people to 133M (25.5% growth), while Palau has declined from 19.8K to 17.7K (10.9% decline).
  • Mexico is projected to reach its peak in 2058 at 150M people, while Palau's population already peaked in 2004 at 19.8K people and is projected to decrease to 11.1K people by 2100.

Mexico vs Palau: live population counter

Mexico Palau
Current population
132790957
17663
Population rank 11/197 194/197
Percent of world population 1.61% 0.0002%
One net population change
28.1 seconds
1.63 weeks
One birth every
15.5 seconds
1.89 days
One death every
39.5 seconds
1.8 days
One migration net change every
5.03 minutes
3.72 weeks
Annual migration change -104,581 -14
Daily growth/decline +3,072 +0
Annual growth/decline +1,121,248 -32
Annual growth/decline rate +0.86% -0.18%
Population growth rate rank 113/197 176/197

Mexico and Palau: population history and growth rate by year chart

Mexico
Population

Growth rate
Palau
Population

Growth rate
Year Population Growth rate
Mexico Palau Mexico Palau
1960 36,724,615 9,328 - -
1961 37,890,118 9,555 3.17% 2.43%
1962 39,129,200 9,793 3.27% 2.49%
1963 40,424,065 10,037 3.31% 2.49%
1964 41,772,049 10,292 3.33% 2.54%
1965 43,174,477 10,547 3.36% 2.48%
1966 44,629,106 10,805 3.37% 2.45%
1967 46,129,608 10,988 3.36% 1.69%
1968 47,668,303 11,080 3.34% 0.84%
1969 49,233,194 11,159 3.28% 0.71%
1970 50,814,953 11,368 3.21% 1.87%
1971 52,412,558 11,759 3.14% 3.44%
1972 54,030,168 12,194 3.09% 3.7%
1973 55,667,284 12,552 3.03% 2.94%
1974 57,320,149 12,687 2.97% 1.08%
1975 58,982,400 12,655 2.9% -0.25%
1976 60,645,512 12,598 2.82% -0.45%
1977 62,308,493 12,525 2.74% -0.58%
1978 63,979,046 12,440 2.68% -0.68%
1979 65,648,865 12,337 2.61% -0.83%
1980 67,300,334 12,271 2.52% -0.53%
1981 68,892,108 12,402 2.37% 1.07%
1982 70,433,260 12,694 2.24% 2.35%
1983 71,971,240 13,006 2.18% 2.46%
1984 73,506,846 13,337 2.13% 2.54%
1985 75,043,414 13,688 2.09% 2.63%
1986 76,585,637 14,024 2.06% 2.45%
1987 78,136,651 14,334 2.03% 2.21%
1988 79,695,531 14,645 2% 2.17%
1989 81,247,182 14,945 1.95% 2.05%
1990 82,820,170 15,259 1.94% 2.1%
1991 84,430,572 15,614 1.94% 2.33%
1992 86,044,809 15,989 1.91% 2.4%
1993 87,653,807 16,372 1.87% 2.4%
1994 89,259,205 16,770 1.83% 2.43%
1995 90,862,455 17,195 1.8% 2.53%
1996 92,452,702 17,654 1.75% 2.67%
1997 94,021,207 18,108 1.7% 2.57%
1998 95,575,245 18,524 1.65% 2.3%
1999 97,115,707 18,901 1.61% 2.04%
2000 98,625,552 19,178 1.55% 1.47%
2001 100,099,099 19,352 1.49% 0.91%
2002 101,548,624 19,503 1.45% 0.78%
2003 102,978,515 19,659 1.41% 0.8%
2004 104,394,131 19,820 1.37% 0.82%
2005 105,811,504 19,819 1.36% -0.005%
2006 107,253,666 19,593 1.36% -1.14%
2007 108,774,360 19,302 1.42% -1.49%
2008 110,374,288 19,009 1.47% -1.52%
2009 111,999,721 18,709 1.47% -1.58%
2010 113,623,895 18,396 1.45% -1.67%
2011 115,243,504 18,078 1.43% -1.73%
2012 116,818,208 17,765 1.37% -1.73%
2013 118,343,573 17,648 1.31% -0.66%
2014 119,784,261 17,715 1.22% 0.38%
2015 121,072,306 17,770 1.08% 0.31%
2016 122,251,351 17,797 0.97% 0.15%
2017 123,400,057 17,812 0.94% 0.08%
2018 124,573,711 17,814 0.95% 0.01%
2019 125,762,982 17,798 0.95% -0.09%
2020 126,799,054 17,792 0.82% -0.03%
2021 127,648,148 17,783 0.67% -0.05%
2022 128,613,117 17,759 0.76% -0.13%
2023 129,739,759 17,727 0.88% -0.18%
2024 130,861,007 17,695 0.86% -0.18%
2025 131,946,905 17,663 0.83% -0.18%
2026 132,997,664 17,618 0.8% -0.25%
2027 134,017,711 17,564 0.77% -0.31%
2028 135,008,697 17,504 0.74% -0.34%
2029 135,970,893 17,436 0.71% -0.39%
2030 136,904,747 17,376 0.69% -0.34%
2031 137,811,068 17,299 0.66% -0.44%
2032 138,690,189 17,228 0.64% -0.41%
2033 139,542,087 17,163 0.61% -0.38%
2034 140,362,026 17,092 0.59% -0.41%
2035 141,150,818 17,012 0.56% -0.47%
2036 141,909,168 16,940 0.54% -0.43%
2037 142,637,546 16,858 0.51% -0.48%
2038 143,336,222 16,779 0.49% -0.47%
2039 143,998,296 16,689 0.46% -0.54%
2040 144,624,328 16,604 0.43% -0.51%
2041 145,217,780 16,510 0.41% -0.57%
2042 145,777,459 16,403 0.39% -0.65%
2043 146,300,011 16,302 0.36% -0.61%
2044 146,787,722 16,202 0.33% -0.62%
2045 147,240,096 16,097 0.31% -0.65%
2046 147,654,160 15,977 0.28% -0.74%
2047 148,030,153 15,863 0.25% -0.71%
2048 148,372,233 15,749 0.23% -0.72%
2049 148,677,894 15,632 0.21% -0.74%
2050 148,946,272 15,515 0.18% -0.75%

From 2005 to 2015, the population of Mexico increased by 15,260,802 people (a 14.4% growth), while Palau lost 2,049 people (a 10.3% decline).

For the next 10 years, from 2015 to 2025, Mexico gained 11,718,651 (a 9.68% growth), while Palau's population decreased by -107 (a 0.6% decline).

Mexico was ranked 11th most populous country in 2005 and is still 11th in 2025. Palau was ranked 194th in 2005 and still ranked 194th now.

The UN's World Population Prospects forecasts that with changing growth rate trends in 25 years (in 2050) Mexico's population will grow by 12.2% to 148,946,272 people with a rank change from 11th to 12th. The population of Palau will decrease by 12.2% to 15,515 people and rank change from 194th to 195th.

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