According to INEJI (Instituto Nacional de Estadistica e Informatica), in the 2000 census they counted how many Canadians and Americans where living permanently in Mexico, this does not take into account the transient population known as turistas, these figures are taken from the INEJI pages, I tried to get the 2010 figures, no luck.There are also a lot of Europeans, as well an immigrants from all over the world.Census 2000 INEJICanadians 5,448,480U.S.A. 31,107,889Take into account that there are more Canadians and Americans that have retired in the last 15 years since this statistic was compiled, some have passed away and some have moved back while new ones have replaced them.Some Cities are more foreign than Mexican, San Miguel de Allende for example, the shores of lake Chapala look more like American communities with a Mexican flavor. The world is becoming smaller and more persons are on the move be it for political reasons or economics or just because they can.This is just curiosity on my part and thought I might share it with the RV community in Mexico.Have a pleasant day.navegator

I worked with a man whose daughter fell in love with a mexican national while on a spring break trip in Cabo. They ended up getting married and lived in Cabo where the groom's businesses are located. During the several trips my coworker took to Cabo to see his daughter, he and his wife fell in love with the place. He was at retirement age so they ended up retiring to Cabo and opened up a charter boat service with the son-in-law.I lost touch with him but wonder if they are still down there.

Our little town of Peñasco has a population of about 65000 people. There are about 6000 foreigners who live here so roughly 10% of out population are foreigners. Most of them are legal I would say.

Wellll I can't find any source that comes even remotely close to those numbers and frankly am in doubt about them.that would mean that in 2000 12 to 15 % percent of Canadas population lived in Mexico???Our population in 2014 was under 40 million I believe.Does it make sense to anyone or am I missing something.

Canada last I checked had a little over 37 million residents. Over 5 million living in Mexico would sure surprise me. Over 31 million U.S. citizens living in Mexico would almost be the entire state of Calif. I would have to question these numbers.

As I stated before these are the figures that they have on the web page whether they are accurate or not I have no idea, I do know that there are a lot of Canadian and American companies in Mexico and a lot of Canadian and American jefes, maybe some of you that are better at finding facts in the internet can give us a hand, I tried to get the most accurate data possible. navegator

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mayo30
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015
John & Angela wrote:
Good afternoon Navegator and thanks for sharing. I gotta agree with the rest of the canucks. There is something off with those numbers. Were the numbers written as figures or words? I would think the Canadian number would be off by a factor of 10. I would be surprised if that many Canadians visited Mexico in 3 years. We just don't have a lot of people up here.

Regardless, its interesting that there is a website out there that has that info.

A quick google came up with a counteracting number of just under a total of 1 million foreigners total living in Mexico.

http://geo-mexico.com/?p=4031

Gotta love the internet for providing reliable info. (sarcasm mode on here)

J and A

Saw this site and it makes a whole lot of more sense.Those other numbers seem to have a Putinish spin on them.
OH48Lt
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015
Those 5M/31M stats cannot be even close. Having no direct knowledge of the population in Mexico, I'm not calling BS, but almost 10% of Americans live in Mexico? Not hardly. Bet its less than 1M USA and Canadians combined.
briansue
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015
It always helps to have a web address where the info can be found - or where it was found. I found . . . http://www.inegi.org.mx . . . but don't know how to find the rest of the info. Maybe someone can post the specific web page?
navegator
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015
After reading some of the comments I also started having doubts, not being a mathematical genius I told my wife the figures, she's an accountant today, worked in Mexico as an executive secretary, etc.

She laughed and said you and those sites are way off and to re-word the questions
in Spanish and not in English, well after 4 hours more or less I finally got more correct figures than the original ones.

I am old school when it comes to computers and such, I am trying to learn, all of this info comes from the INEJI sites.

Here hare figures that come up more than all others.

U.S.A. 738 103
Canada 7 943

navegador
mayo30
Explorer
Jan 29, 2015
navegator wrote:
After reading some of the comments I also started having doubts, not being a mathematical genius I told my wife the figures, she's an accountant today, worked in Mexico as an executive secretary, etc.

She laughed and said you and those sites are way off and to re-word the questions
in Spanish and not in English, well after 4 hours more or less I finally got more correct figures than the original ones.

I am old school when it comes to computers and such, I am trying to learn, all of this info comes from the INEJI sites.

Here hare figures that come up more than all others.

U.S.A. 738 103
Canada 7 943

navegador

Good job,thanks
Doug
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Feb 01, 2015
Many so-called permanent residents disappear in the off-season. Hot country Summer, temperate country, Winter. If I would have to hazard a guess maybe 30% stay here for a 12-month stretch.
navegator
Explorer
Feb 02, 2015
I looked up the population of Canadians and Americans that stay in Mexico 24/7/365 as opposed to the seasonal turistas, these are the foreigners that got counted in the 2010 census by the Mexican Government as living permanently in the country.

These are the figures that where reported by CEO's, employee's, the Canadian and American Embassy and all those retired that make Mexico they're permanent residence, as well as all other immigrants from all other countries.

navegator
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Feb 03, 2015
Jeez navegator around these parts about one in TEN residente permanentes stay through the summer. Last time through ajijic same thing. These folks are permanentes but they bail in the highlands when it gets cold and down here at sea level when it gets hot. Canadians MUST go home or lose their healthcare and they need to feed Revenue Canada.

I've noted this seasonal bailout in Barra de Navidad, San Miguel, P.V. Cabo Son Locos. INEGI has missed me the last TEN census counts. And I am a citizen.

I wonder about those figures. Face-to-face they don't jibe what my eyes confirm...
navegator
Explorer
Feb 03, 2015
You are referring to the Canadians that loose their medical and other benefits if they stay out too long, this figures are for those foreigners that have applied for either work visas or permanent residence.

There are others that are semi permanent, they spend as much time as possible, and then make a mad dash to the border or take a plane out, stay 3 to 5 days and return to Mexico, they do not count on the census, they are considered as turistas.

It is interesting to see how many nationalities there are, I know that there are social clubs that represent several nations, there are also several schools that are recognized in in the country affiliated to the school, Colegio Aleman, Colegio Americano, etc. I spent a 4th of July there, there is an American Legion chapter in Mexico City.

navegator
MEXICOWANDERER
Explorer
Feb 07, 2015
Most of the ducks stay gone for the weather off-season. Then it's the max limits imposed by migracion that brings them back. Hazarding a guess I would say maybe <20% never leave. When the people go north is when they get burgled. They group like minnows, flee north all around the same time year-after-year and the crooks prepare their shopping lists ahead of time.

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