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| Mexico | Plants and Animal | Back to Top |
Between 1990 and 1993, Mexico's soybean output fluctuated with the amount of land sown. For the 1992-93 growing season, 313,000 hectares were sown in soybeans, producing 578,000 tons. Mexico's soybean imports generally exceeded domestic production in the late 1980s and early 1990s, in some years by a wide margin. The nation imported 2.1 million tons of soybeans in 1992 and 1993, mainly from the United States. In 1991 Mexico imported US$348 million worth of soybeans. International coffee prices fell 50 % between 1989 and 1993. Lower prices combined with the elimination of coffee subsidies to reduce the income of coffee growers by an around 65 %. Lower prices reduced Mexico's export income from coffee to about US$370 million by 1991. They also depressed coffee production, which fell from 5.2 million bags in 1992 to 4.1 million bags in 1993.
| Mexico | Communications | Back to Top |
general assessment: low telephone density with about 11 main lines per 100 persons; privatized in December 1990; the opening to competition in January 1997 has brightened prospects for development
domestic: sufficient telephone service for business and government, but the population is poorly served; domestic satellite system with 120 earth stations; considerable microwave radio relay network; considerable use of fiber-optic cable, coaxial cable, and mobile cellular service
international: satellite earth stations - 32 Intelsat, 2 Solidaridad (giving Mexico improved access to South America, Central America, and much of the US as well as enhancing domestic communications), numerous Inmarsat mobile earth stations; linked to Central American Microwave System of trunk connections; high capacity Columbus-2 fiber-optic submarine cable with access to the US, Virgin Islands, Canary Islands, Morocco, Spain, and Italy (1997)
| Mexico | Culture | Back to Top |
Government: Constitution of 1917 in force in 1997. Formally a federal republic, although federal government dominates governments of thirty-one states and Federal District. Central government power concentrated in president, who directs activities of numerous agencies and state-owned business enterprises. Bicameral legislature comparatively weak. Federal judiciary headed by Supreme Court of Justice. State governments headed by elected governors; all states have unicameral legislatures; state courts subordinate to federal courts. Federal District governed by mayor (regente) indirectly elected by legislative body of the Federal District beginning in 1996; more than 2,000 local governments headed by elected municipal presidents and municipal councils.
Foreign Relations: Major attention devoted to United States. Trade and immigration along shared border subjects of continuing negotiations. Foreign policy traditionally based on international law; nonintervention the major principle. Widely active in hemispheric affairs, including good relations with Cuba.
| Mexico | Defence | Back to Top |
Military branches: National Defense Secretariat (includes Army and Air Force), Navy Secretariat (includes Naval Air and Naval Infantry)
Military manpower - military age: 18 years of age
note: starting in 2000, females will be allowed to volunteer for military service
Military manpower - availability: males age 15-49: 26,703,300 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - fit for military service: males age 15-49: 19,394,184 (2001 est.)
Military manpower - reaching military age annually: males: 1,077,536 (2001 est.)
| Mexico | International Disputes | Back to Top |
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| Mexico | Economy | Back to Top |
Mexico—like Argentina, Brazil, and Chile—is a semi-industrialized nation. The nation is valuable in industrial resources, including petroleum and several metals. Mexico’s manufacturing output includes many basic goods, such as steel, machinery, and petrochemicals, as well as a wide range of consumer goods. Agriculture still provides more jobs than industry, however. Many farm families earn barely enough to survive, and many city dwellers are unable to find jobs.
Since the Revolution of 1910, Mexico's most famous economic achievement has been the sharp reduction of foreign ownership of the means of production while maintaining overall national growth. The economy is a combination of private, state, and mixed-capital enterprises.In addition, private capital is barred from investment in certain activities. Private capital interests, with a majority of shares owned by Mexican nationals, control most industrial manufacturing activities, while semiautonomous state corporations operate the petroleum industry, generate and distribute electricity, run the banks, and oversee the telephone and telegraph systems. The government also controls foreign capital investment, usually by prohibiting it from certain industries, such as insurance, petroleum, and forestry, or by limiting it to a minority interest in others, such as mining, transportation, broadcasting, and soft-drink production.
Mexico has a free market economy with a mixture of modern and outmoded industry and agriculture, increasingly controlled by the private sector. The number of state-owned enterprises in Mexico has fallen from more than 1,000 in 1982 to fewer than 200 in 2000. The ZEDILLO administration privatized and expanded competition in seaports, railroads, telecommunications, electricity, natural gas distribution, and airports. A strong export area helped to cushion the economy's decline in 1995 and led the recovery in 1996-2000. Private consumption became the leading driver of growth in 2000, accompanied by increased employment and higher real wages. Mexico still needs to overcome many structural problems as it strives to modernize its economy and raise living standards. Income distribution is very unequal, with the top 20% of income earners accounting for 55% of income. Trade with the US and Canada has tripled since NAFTA was implemented in 1994. Mexico completed free trade agreements with the EU, Israel, El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in 2000, and is pursuing additional trade agreements with countries in Latin America and Asia to lessen its dependence on the US.
| Mexico | Education | Back to Top |
contempt impressive gains in enrollment levels over the previous forty years, remarkable interrelated problems plague the Mexican education system in the early 1990s. Many primary- and secondary-school-age students, particularly in rural areas, fail to complete their education programs. Instructional quality, as measured by student test scores, remains low. Although operation of all nonuniversity education was given to the states in 1993, the system continues to be overly centralized and subject to bureaucratic encumbrances. In addition, students are often poorly prepared to meet the challenges of a global economy.
Throughout most of Mexico’s history, beginning with the colonial time, education was the task of the Catholic Church. After freedom, Mexicans were concerned about the church imposing its values and beliefs on the population and started a public educational system. Religious determines of any sort were banned in primary school. The federal government controls the curriculum and provides the textbooks for primary schools.
| Mexico | Government | Back to Top |
Government: Constitution of 1917 in force in 1997. Formally a federal republic, although federal government dominates governments of thirty-one states and Federal District. Central government power concentrated in president, who directs activities of numerous agencies and state-owned business enterprises. Bicameral legislature (128-member Senate and 500-member Chamber of Deputies) comparatively weak. Federal judiciary headed by Supreme Court of Justice. State governments headed by elected governors; all states have unicameral legislatures; state courts subordinate to federal courts. Federal District governed by mayor (regente) indirectly elected by legislative body of the Federal District beginning in 1996; more than 2,000 local governments headed by elected municipal presidents and municipal councils.
Politics: Authoritarian system governed by president, who cannot be reelected to another six-year term. Major political organization Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional--PRI), which incorporates peasant groups, labor unions, and many middle-class organizations within its ranks. Many opposition parties have had limited electoral success; largest is the conservative Party of National Action (Partido de Acción Nacional--PAN). Direct elections at regular intervals; rule of no reelection applies to most offices. Election by majority vote, except for 200 seats in Chamber of Deputies reserved for opposition parties chosen by proportional representation. considerable participation by interest groups and labor unions in government and PRI affairs.
Foreign Relations: Major attention devoted to United States. Trade and immigration along shared border subjects of continuing negotiations. Foreign policy traditionally based on international law; nonintervention the major principle. Widely active in hemispheric affairs, including good relations with Cuba.
International Agreements and Memberships: Party to Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance (Rio Treaty). Membership in international organizations includes Organization of American States and its specialized agencies, United Nations and its specialized agencies, Latin American Alliance for Economic Development, and Latin American Economic System. Joined NAFTA in 1993.
| Mexico | History | Back to Top |
Mexico's many archaeological treasures, its architectural wealth, and its various population offer physical clues to a past that has given rise to stories of migration, settlement, conquest, and nation-building. The cultural heritage of the Aztec, the Maya, and other advanced civilizations, seen in the ruins of their temples and in their artifacts, bears witness to the achievements of the early inhabitants of Mesoamerica. Following a pattern that spans the pre-Columbian era to modern times, new civilizations have been built on the ruins of the old. In this ongoing process of cultural superimposition, many elements of the past have endured, contempt occasional efforts to root out orthodox practices and native identities. A major change came with the Spanish conquest. The conquest caused a traumatic break in the ebb and flow of native kingdoms and led to a single, albeit stratified, society that was neither wholly native nor European, but mestizo.
By the late twentieth century, the burgeoning Mexican state could no longer assure the Revolution's promise of growth with equity. After decades of semiauthoritarian rule by the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party (Partido Revolucionario Institucional--PRI), corruption and excessive clientelism had overshadowed the ideal of equality before the law. Poverty, although lessened, continued to beset half of the population. The debt crisis of the early 1980s marked the end of Mexico's protectionist, state-centered economic model and set the stage for far-reaching trade and financial liberalization and systematic privatization of key industries. By the early 1990s, Mexico's economy was thoroughly integrated into the global market, and a renascent civil society was exercising increasing autonomy from Mexico's corporatist political institutions. Mexico thus approached the end of the twentieth century in a state of profound transition.
| Mexico | Introduction | Back to Top |
Mexico, in full United Mexican States (in Spanish, Estados Unidos Mexicanos), federal republic in North America, bordered on the north by the United States; on the east by the United States, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea; on the south by Belize and Guatemala; and on the west by the Pacific Ocean. Mexican federal jurisdiction extends, in addition to Mexico proper, over a number of offshore islands. The area of the nation is 1,958,201 sq km (756,066 sq mi). The capital and largest city is Mexico City.
Population 95,772,462 (1996 official estimate) Population Density 49 people/sq km (127 people/sq mi) (1996 estimate) Urban/Rural Breakdown 71% Urban 29% Rural Largest Cities Mexico City8,236,960 Guadalajara1,628,617 Monterrey1,064,197 Puebla1,057,454 (1990 census) Largest Metropolitan Areas Mexico City15,047,685 Guadalajara1,650,205 Monterrey1,069,238 Puebla1,454,526 (1990 census) Ethnic Groups 60% Mestizo 30% Native American 10% European mainly of Spanish descent Languages Official Language Spanish Other Languages Native American languages Religions 93% Roman Catholicism 7%Other including Protestantism and Judaism
| Mexico | Land | Back to Top |
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| Mexico | Languages | Back to Top |
Spanish control of Mexico led to the dominance of Spanish, the official language. As many as 100 Native American languages are still spoken in Mexico, but no single alternative language prevails. Eighty % of those Mexicans who speak an indigenous language also speak Spanish. The most valuable of the Native American languages is Nahuatl. It is the primary language of more than a million Mexicans and is spoken by nearly one-fourth of all Native Americans in the nation. This is followed by Maya, used by 14 % of Native Americans, and Mixteco and Zapoteco, each spoken by about seven % of Native Americans. No other indigenous language is spoken by more than five % of Mexico’s Native Americans. See also Native American Languages.
| Mexico | Legal | Back to Top |
Legal system: mixture of US constitutional theory and civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction, with reservations vote: 18 years of age; universal and compulsory (but not enforced) administrator branch: chief of state: President Vicente FOX Quesada (since 1 December 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government head of government: President Vicente FOX Quesada (since 1 December 2000); note - the president is both the chief of state and head of government cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the president; note - appointment of attorney general requires consent of the Senate elections: president elected by popular vote for a six-year term; election last held 2 July 2000 (next to be held NA July 2006) election results: Vicente FOX Quesada elected president; % of vote - Vicente FOX Quesada (PAN) 42.52%, Francisco LABASTIDA Ochoa (PRI) 36.1%, Cuauhtemoc CARDENAS Solorzano (PRD) 16.64%, other 4.74% Legislative branch: bicameral National Congress or Congreso de la Union consists of the Senate or Camara de Senadores (128 seats; 96 are elected by popular vote to serve six-year terms, and 32 are allocated on the basis of each party's popular vote) and the Federal Chamber of Deputies or Camara Federal de Diputados (500 seats; 300 members are directly elected by popular vote to serve three-year terms; remaining 200 members are allocated on the basis of each party's popular vote, also for three-year terms) elections: Senate - last held 2 July 2000 for all of the seats (next to be held NA 2006); Chamber of Deputies - last held 2 July 2000 (next to be held NA 2003) election results: Senate - % of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PRI 59, PAN 45, PRD 17, PVEM 5, PT 1, PCD 1; Chamber of Deputies - % of vote by party - NA%; seats by party - PRI 211, PAN 208, PRD 50, PVEM 16, PT 7, PCD 3, PSN 3, PAS 2 Judicial branch: Supreme Court of Justice or Corte Suprema de Justicia (judges are appointed by the president with consent of the Senate)
| Mexico | Life | Back to Top |
Beginning in the 1970s and over the next two decades, dramatic changes occurred in the role of women in the Mexican economy. In 1990 women described 31 % of the economically active population, double the %age recorded twenty years earlier. The demographics of women in the workforce also changed during this time. In 1980 the typical female worker was under twenty-five years of age. Her participation in the workforce was usually transitional and would end following marriage or childbirth. After the 1970s, an emerging feminist movement made it more acceptable for educated Mexican women to pursue careers. In addition, the economic crisis of the 1980s required many married women to return to the job market to help supplement their husbands' income. About 70 % of women workers in the mid-1990s were employed in the tertiary area of the economy, usually at wages below those of men.Observers famous that women generally were held to a stricter sexual code of conduct than men.Sexual activity outside of marriage was regarded as immoral for "decent" women but acceptable for men.
| Mexico | organization | Back to Top |
APEC, BCIE, BIS, Caricom (observer), CCC, CDB, CE (observer), EBRD, ECLAC, FAO, G-3, G-6, G-11, G-15, G-19, G-24, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IEA (observer), IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), ISO, ITU, LAES, LAIA, NAM (observer), NEA, OAS, OECD, OPANAL, OPCW, PCA, RG, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNITAR, UNU, UPU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
| Mexico | People | Back to Top |
The eleventh annual census, conducted in 1990, reported a total Mexican population of 81,250,000. This figure described a 2.3 % per annum growth rate from the 1980 census and suggested successful government efforts at slowing down the level of population increase. The government reported that the population stood at 91,158,000 at the end of 1995, a 1.8 % increase over the previous year. Assuming that this most recent level of growth were maintained through the rest of the 1990s, Mexico's population would stand at around 100 million persons in the year 2000. A return to the higher 1980 to 1990 growth rate, would result in a population total of around 102 million persons by the year 2000.
At the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 1500s, numerous advanced Native American civilizations existed in Mexico. Among the most valuable were the Maya, who resided in the southern and southeastern part of what is now Mexico, including the present states of Chiapas, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán. Central Mexico was controlled by the Aztecs, who had developed an considerable capital surrounded by a lake at Tenochtitlán, Mexico City’s present site. Mexico's population is composed of many ethnic groups. At the time of European reached in the early 1500s, the nation was colonised by people who are thought to have migrated into the New World from Asia some 40,000 to 60,000 years ago by crossing a former land bridge in the Bering Strait. After their reached into what is now Mexico, centuries of isolation allowed the evolution of unique cultural traits among the many separate clusters. Highly organized civilizations occupied various regions for at least 2,000 years before European find.
| Mexico | Politics | Back to Top |
Convergence for Democracy or CD [Dante DELGADO Ranauro]; Institutional Revolutionary Party or PRI [Dulce Maria SAURI Riancho]; Mexican Green Ecological Party or PVEM [Jorge GONZALEZ Torres]; National Action Party or PAN [Luis Felipe BRAVO Mena]; Party of the Democratic Center or PCD [Manuel CAMACHO Solis]; Party of the Democratic Revolution or PRD [Amalia GARCIA Medina]; Party of the Nationalist Society or PSN [Gustavo RIOJAIS Santana]; Social Alliance Party or PAS [Jose Antonio CALDERON Cardoso]; Workers Party or PT [Alberto ANAYA Gutierrez] Political pressure groups and leaders: Confederation of Employers of the Mexican Republic or COPARMEX; Confederation of Industrial Chambers or CONCAMIN; Confederation of Mexican Workers or CTM; Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce or CONCANACO; Coordinator for Foreign Trade Business Organizations or COECE; Federation of Unions Providing Goods and Services or FESEBES; National Chamber of Transformation Industries or CANACINTRA; National Peasant Confederation or CNC; National Union of Workers or UNT; Regional Confederation of Mexican Workers or CROM; Revolutionary Confederation of Workers and Peasants or CROC; Roman Catholic Church
| Mexico | Provinces | Back to Top |
31 states (estados, singular - estado) and 1 federal district* (distrito federal); Aguascalientes, Baja California, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal*, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
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| Mexico | Currency and General Information | Back to Top |
| Countries Currency Unit | MXN/Unit | Units/MXN | |
| DZD | Algeria Dinars | 0.116393 | 8.59159 |
| USD | United States Dollars | 9.01033 | 0.110984 |
| ARS | Argentina Pesos | 3.05953 | 0.326847 |
| AUD | Australia Dollars | 4.80714 | 0.208024 |
| ATS | Austria Schillings ** | 0.570342 | 1.75333 |
| BSD | Bahamas Dollars | 9.01033 | 0.110984 |
| BBD | Barbados Dollars | 4.52780 | 0.220858 |
| BEF | Belgium Francs ** | 0.194549 | 5.14010 |
| BMD | Bermuda Dollars | 9.01033 | 0.110984 |
| BRL | Brazil Reals | 3.87541 | 0.258037 |
| GBP | United Kingdom Pounds | 12.8475 | 0.0778363 |
| BGL | Bulgaria Leva | 4.03025 | 0.248123 |
| CAD | Canada Dollars | 5.64853 | 0.177037 |
| CLP | Chile Pesos | 0.0137258 | 72.8553 |
| CNY | China Yuan Renminbi | 1.08855 | 0.918657 |
| CYP | Cyprus Pounds | 13.7143 | 0.0729163 |
| CZK | Czech Republic Koruny | 0.254178 | 3.93426 |
| DKK | Denmark Kroner | 1.05643 | 0.946588 |
| XCD | East Caribbean Dollars | 3.33716 | 0.299656 |
| EGP | Egypt Pounds | 1.94502 | 0.514132 |
| EUR | Euro | 7.84808 | 0.127420 |
| FJD | Fiji Dollars | 4.03147 | 0.248049 |
| FIM | Finland Markkaa ** | 1.31995 | 0.757603 |
| FRF | France Francs ** | 1.19643 | 0.835818 |
| DEM | Germany Deutsche Marks ** | 4.01266 | 0.249211 |
| XAU | Gold Ounces | 2,723.33 | 0.000367197 |
| GRD | Greece Drachmae ** | 0.0230318 | 43.4182 |
| HKD | Hong Kong Dollars | 1.15523 | 0.865629 |
| HUF | Hungary Forint | 0.0322748 | 30.9839 |
| ISK | Iceland Kronur | 0.0901089 | 11.0977 |
| INR | India Rupees | 0.184623 | 5.41645 |
| IDR | Indonesia Rupiahs | 0.000917135 | 1,090.35 |
| IEP | Ireland Pounds ** | 9.96501 | 0.100351 |
| ILS | Israel New Shekels | 1.89973 | 0.526390 |
| ITL | Italy Lire ** | 0.00405320 | 246.719 |
| JMD | Jamaica Dollars | 0.189253 | 5.28394 |
| JPY | Japan Yen | 0.0679256 | 14.7220 |
| JOD | Jordan Dinars | 12.7085 | 0.0786875 |
| LBP | Lebanon Pounds | 0.00595134 | 168.029 |
| LUF | Luxembourg Francs ** | 0.194549 | 5.14010 |
| MYR | Malaysia Ringgits | 2.37176 | 0.421627 |
| MXN | Mexico Pesos | 1.00000 | 1.00000 |
| NZD | New Zealand Dollars | 3.96890 | 0.251959 |
| NOK | Norway Kroner | 1.01770 | 0.982612 |
| NLG | Netherlands Guilders ** | 3.56130 | 0.280796 |
| PKR | Pakistan Rupees | 0.150047 | 6.66458 |
| PHP | Philippines Pesos | 0.176604 | 5.66239 |
| XPT | Platinum Ounces | 4,676.16 | 0.000213851 |
| PLN | Poland Zlotych | 2.19135 | 0.456339 |
| PTE | Portugal Escudos ** | 0.0391461 | 25.5453 |
| ROL | Romania Lei | 0.000273579 | 3,655.25 |
| RUR | Russia Rubles | 0.289535 | 3.45382 |
| SAR | Saudi Arabia Riyals | 2.40272 | 0.416196 |
| XAG | Silver Ounces | 41.7164 | 0.0239714 |
| SGD | Singapore Dollars | 4.89107 | 0.204454 |
| SKK | Slovakia Koruny | 0.187910 | 5.32168 |
| ZAR | South Africa Rand | 0.793319 | 1.26053 |
| KRW | South Korea Won | 0.00682184 | 146.588 |
| ESP | Spain Pesetas ** | 0.0471679 | 21.2008 |
| XDR | IMF Special Drawing Rights | 11.2342 | 0.0890138 |
| SDD | Sudan Dinars | 0.0346551 | 28.8558 |
| SEK | Sweden Kronor | 0.869645 | 1.14989 |
| CHF | Switzerland Francs | 5.35925 | 0.186593 |
| TWD | Taiwan New Dollars | 0.257806 | 3.87888 |
| THB | Thailand Baht | 0.206888 | 4.83354 |
| TTD | Trinidad and Tobago Dollars | 1.47228 | 0.679221 |
| TRL | Turkey Liras | 0.00000670362 | 149,173.04 |
| VEB | Venezuela Bolivares | 0.00978543 | 102.193 |
| ZMK | Zambia Kwacha | 0.00201573 | 496.098 |
| Mexico : Geographic coordinates | 23 00 N, 102 00 W |
| Mexico : Population growth rate | 1.5% |
| Mexico : Birth rate | 22.77 births/1,000 population |
| Mexico : Death rate | 5.02 deaths/1,000 population |
| Mexico : People living with HIV/AIDS | 150,000 |
| Mexico : Independence | 16 September 1810 |
| Mexico : National holiday | Independence Day, 16 September |
| Mexico : Constitution | 5 February 1917 |
| Mexico : GDP | purchasing power parity - $915 billion |
| Mexico : GDP - per capita | purchasing power parity - $9,100 |
| Mexico : Electricity - consumption | 170.754 billion kWh |
| Mexico : Exports | $168 billion manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton |
| Mexico : Imports | $176 billion metal-working machines, steel mill products, agricultural machinery, electrical equipment, car parts for assembly, repair parts for motor vehicles, aircraft, and aircraft parts |
| Mexico : Telephones | 9.6 million |
| Mexico : Mobile cellular | 2.02 million |
| Mexico : Radio broadcast stations | AM 865, FM about 500, shortwave 13 |
| Mexico : Radios | 31 million |
| Mexico : Television broadcast stations | 236 |
| Mexico : Televisions | 25.6 million |
| Mexico : Internet country code | .mx |
| Mexico : Internet Service Providers (ISPs) | 51 |
| Mexico : Internet users | 2.5 million |
| Mexico : Railways | 18,000 km |
| Mexico : Highways | 323,977 km |
| Mexico : Waterways | 2,900 km |
| Mexico : Pipelines | crude oil 28,200 km; petroleum products 10,150 km; natural gas 13,254 km; petrochemical 1,400 km |
| Mexico : Ports and harbors | Acapulco, Altamira, Coatzacoalcos, Ensenada, Guaymas, La Paz, Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Progreso, Salina Cruz, Tampico, Topolobampo, Tuxpan, Veracruz |
| Mexico : Merchant marine | 43 ships |
| Mexico : Airports | 1,848 |
| Mexico : Heliports | 2 |
| Mexico : Military branches | National Defense Secretariat (includes Army and Air Force), Navy Secretariat |
| Mexico : Military expenditures | $4 billion |