Canadians and Americans living in Mexico

[navegator]

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 INEJI

Canadians 5,448,480
U.S.A. 31,107,889

Take 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

[navegator]

The figures given by the ONU and INEJI are as follows:

U.S.A.___________2776412
Canada___________2072550
Europe___________2023040
Central America__1958338
Argentina________1141325
Brazil___________1141241
Caribbean________1000000
Asia and Africa__500 thousand

According to this site there are 104 million Mexicans and 13 million foreigners

I do know that there are a lot of Canadians and Gringos that work and live in Mexico, they some times tend not stick out as a sore thumb for security reasons, I had an uncle that ran the Singer sewing factory in Qureretaro many moons ago, there was a substantial gringo population then, my sister worked for Price Water House in Mexico City that did the accounting for the big foreign corporations, Ford, Proector & Gamble, 3M, Nabisco, Chevrolet, Kimberly Clark, to name a few.

Maybe this figures are close to the correct x-pats living in Mexico, I know that the there is an American school in Mexico City, I spent a 4th of July there, there is a German school, my wife attended before being sent to Germany to finish school, there is an American University in Cholula, Puebla and these schools are recognized in the U.S.A. and Germany.

There might be some truth to this numbers after all NAFTA is here!

I leave you all to ponder this over a good Corona.

navegator

[Community Alumni]

I quick Google check reveals there are about one million Americans and about 125K Canadians living in Mexico.

[John___Angela]

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

[moisheh]

Mexican statistics are always suspect. Those figures are so far off it is ridiculous. Maybe drop a zero and it is still off. GIGO!

Moisheh

[mexicoruss]

Something is up with the numbers. 1.5 million foreigners is more correct - sometimes on Mexican websites the number mil is used behind a round number, that indicates mille (Italian or Mil Spanish) , or thousand re- read and use the Mil for the number and I think you will be close to correct.

[navegator]

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

[iguana07]

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.

[mayo30]

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.

[mexicoruss]

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.

[the_bear_II]

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.