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Belize vs Mexico

105 shared metrics.

BelizeLeads in 36

vs105 shared

MexicoLeads in 69

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Belize

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Identity

Name origin: traditionally believed to be derived from the Spanish pronunciation of the last name of Scottish explorer Peter Wallace, who settled in the area in 1638.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Belize guards the largest barrier reef in the Northern Hemisphere.

UNESCO

Mexico

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Identity

Formal name: United Mexican States.

CIA 2026

Curated stat

Mexicans work more annual hours than workers in any other OECD country.

OECD

Analysis

Mexico leads in 69 of 105 shared metrics, while Belize leads in 36.

Belize's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 8.0x that of Mexico (0.71 per 100k people vs 0.08 per 100k people).

Belize's Youth Unemployment Rate is 2.4x that of Mexico (19.32% of youth labor force vs 5.7% of youth labor force).

Belize's Unemployment Rate is 1.6x that of Mexico (7.0% vs 2.7%).

Belize's GDP Growth Rate is 1.5x that of Mexico (3.5% vs 1.4%).

Belize's Protected Land (%) is 1.4x that of Mexico (37.3% vs 15.3%).

Key Comparisons

EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)Belize leads

Belize

0.71 per 100k people

Mexico

0.08 per 100k people

Youth Unemployment RateBelize leads

Belize

19.32% of youth labor force

Mexico

5.7% of youth labor force

Unemployment RateBelize leads

Belize

7.0%

Mexico

2.7%

GDP Growth RateBelize leads

Belize

3.5%

Mexico

1.4%

Protected Land (%)Belize leads

Belize

37.3%

Mexico

15.3%

Renewable Energy (%)Belize leads

Belize

30.8%

Mexico

13%

All Metrics

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Belize

Mexico

Belize

487.0K

Mexico

51.13M

99% lower

Comparison of Belize and Mexico across 105 metrics
				Winner
EV Chargers per 100,000 PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0.71 per 100k people	0.08 per 100k people	800% higher	Belize
Youth Unemployment Rate	19.32% of youth labor force	5.7% of youth labor force	238% higher	Belize
Unemployment Rate	7.0%	2.7%	158% higher	Belize
GDP Growth Rate	3.5%	1.4%	146% higher	Belize
Protected Land (%)	37.3%	15.3%	144% higher	Belize
Renewable Energy (%)	30.8%	13%	137% higher	Belize
Government Debt (% GDP)	99% of GDP	45.1% of GDP	120% higher	Belize
Time Zones Count	2.0 time zones	1.0 time zones	100% higher	Belize
Foreign Patents	27	15.0K	100% lower	Mexico
Population	422.0K	130.74M	100% lower	Mexico
Water Withdrawal	0.10 B m³	89.8 B m³	100% lower	Mexico
Scientific Publications	17.74	21.0K	100% lower	Mexico
GDP (Nominal)	$3,203,631,800	$1,856,365,616,165.94	100% lower	Mexico
High-Tech Exports (%)	0.00%	19.3%	100% lower	Mexico
Irrigated Land	35 km²	59.9K km²	100% lower	Mexico
Total CO2 Emissions	0.39 Mt CO2e	475.99 Mt CO2e	100% lower	Mexico
Electric Generating Capacity	220.0K kW	105.59M kW	100% lower	Mexico
Electricity Generation	0.45 TWh	361.28 TWh	100% lower	Mexico
Air Passengers	776.2K	78.76M	99% lower	Mexico
Tourist Arrivals	487.0K	51.13M	99% lower	Mexico
Land Area	22.8K km²	1.94M km²	99% lower	Mexico
Armed Forces Personnel	2.0K	341.0K	99% lower	Mexico
Forest Area	12.4K km²	653.1K km²	98% lower	Mexico
Airports	28	1.6K	98% lower	Mexico
Water Stress (%)	0.66%	21.96%	97% lower	Mexico
Capital Elevation	76 m	2.2K m	97% lower	Mexico
UNESCO World Heritage Sites	1.0 sites	35 sites	97% lower	Mexico
Coastline Length	386 km	9.3K km	96% lower	Mexico
Air Pollution (PM2.5)	28.65 µg/m³	14.99 µg/m³	91% higher	Belize
Land Border Length	542 km	4.4K km	88% lower	Mexico
Agricultural Land (%)	8.0%	50.69%	84% lower	Mexico
Highest Elevation	1.1K m	5.6K m	80% lower	Mexico
Population Density	18.02 /km²	66.74 /km²	73% lower	Mexico
Solar Electricity Share	2.1%	7.4%	71% lower	Mexico
Women in Parliament (%)	15.63%	50.2%	69% lower	Mexico
Official Languages Count	1.0	3.0	67% lower	Mexico
Electricity Carbon Intensity	170.21 gCO2/kWh	474.02 gCO2/kWh	64% lower	Mexico
FDI Inflows (% GDP)	4.0% of GDP	2.4% of GDP	64% higher	Belize
Forest Coverage (%)	54.52%	33.6%	62% higher	Belize
Insufficient Physical Activity	40.68% of adults	25.57% of adults	59% higher	Belize
Doctors (per 1,000)	1.1 per 1k	2.6 per 1k	58% lower	Mexico
Health Spending Per Capita	$297.42	$650.97	54% lower	Mexico
Broadband Access (%)	10 per 100 people	21 per 100 people	52% lower	Mexico
Exports (% GDP)	55.22% of GDP	36.7% of GDP	50% higher	Belize
University Enrollment Rate	24.81%	47.47%	48% lower	Mexico
Urban Population (%)	41.75%	79.75%	48% lower	Mexico
Tobacco Use Prevalence	8.4% of adults	16% of adults	47% lower	Mexico
CO2 Per Capita	1.9 t/person/yr	3.5 t/person/yr	46% lower	Mexico
Road Traffic Death Rate	17.5 per 100k	12 per 100k	46% higher	Belize
GNI Per Capita	$7,150	$12,850	44% lower	Mexico
GDP Per Capita (PPP)	$14,346.52	$25,738.6	44% lower	Mexico
Food Waste per Person	120.62 kg/person/yr	214.72 kg/person/yr	44% lower	Mexico
Vehicles per 1,000 People	189.44 per 1k people	332.08 per 1k people	43% lower	Mexico
Imports (% GDP)	53.75% of GDP	37.89% of GDP	42% higher	Belize
Smoking Rate	8.8%	14.9%	41% lower	Mexico
Mobile Subscriptions (%)	67 per 100 people	111.56 per 100 people	40% lower	Mexico
Suicide Rate	4.2 per 100k	7.0 per 100k	40% lower	Mexico
Elderly Population (%)	5.0%	8.2%	39% lower	Mexico
Meat Consumption per Person	41.09 kg/person/yr	64.88 kg/person/yr	37% lower	Mexico
ATMs per 100,000 Adults	45.51 per 100k	68.68 per 100k	34% lower	Mexico
Corruption Perceptions Index	36 pts	27 pts	33% higher	Belize
Border Neighbors	2.0	3.0	33% lower	Mexico
Mobile Money Accounts	13.67% of adults	10.44% of adults	31% higher	Belize
Inflation Rate	3.3%	4.7%	30% lower	Mexico
Milk Consumption per Person	80.3 kg/person/yr	111.87 kg/person/yr	28% lower	Mexico
Health Spending (% GDP)	4.2% of GDP	5.7% of GDP	26% lower	Mexico
Digital Payments Used	51.16% of adults	41.39% of adults	24% higher	Belize
Alcohol Consumption	3.7 L/adult/yr	4.8 L/adult/yr	23% lower	Mexico
Beer Consumption	3.1 L/person/yr	3.8 L/person/yr	20% lower	Mexico
Death Rate	4.9 per 1k	6.0 per 1k	19% lower	Mexico
Birth Rate	17.44 per 1k	14.73 per 1k	18% higher	Belize
Spirits Consumption	0.58 L/person/yr	0.50 L/person/yr	17% higher	Belize
Minimum Paid Vacation Days	14 days/yr	12 days/yr	17% higher	Belize
Obesity Rate	41.91%	36.09%	16% higher	Belize
Hypertension Prevalence	37.7% of adults	32.8% of adults	15% higher	Belize
Merchant Fleet Size	774	674	15% higher	Belize
Education Spending (% GDP)	4.6% of GDP	4.1% of GDP	14% higher	Belize
Homicide Rate	28.06 per 100k	24.86 per 100k	13% higher	Belize
Internet Users (%)	72%	81%	11% lower	Mexico
Median Age	25.9 years	28.9 years	10% lower	Mexico
Human Development Index	0.72	0.79	9% lower	Mexico
Sanitation Access (%)	84.3%	92.99%	9% lower	Mexico
Fertility Rate	2.0 children/woman	1.9 children/woman	9% higher	Belize
Teen Birth Rate	55.23 per 1k	60.1 per 1k	8% lower	Mexico
Adult Literacy Rate	87.88%	95.77%	8% lower	Mexico
Youth Population (%)	26.58%	24.51%	8% higher	Belize
Average Weekly Work Hours	39 hrs/week	42.09 hrs/week	7% lower	Mexico
Women in Senior Management	41.71% of managers	39.32% of managers	6% higher	Belize
Dependency Ratio	46.2% of working-age pop.	48.72% of working-age pop.	5% lower	Mexico
Can Raise Emergency Money	96.72% of adults	92.51% of adults	5% higher	Belize
Credit Card Ownership	14.91% of adults	14.16% of adults	5% higher	Belize
Seafood Consumption per Person	13.35 kg/person/yr	13.95 kg/person/yr	4% lower	Mexico
Life Evaluation Score	6.7 pts	7.0 pts	4% lower	Mexico
Child Mortality	12.7 per 1k births	12.5 per 1k births	2% higher	Belize
Life Expectancy	73.6 years	75.1 years	2% lower	Mexico
Military Spending	0.90% of GDP	0.89% of GDP	1% higher	Belize
Coal Electricity Share	0%	3.0%	ranked lower	Mexico
Wind Electricity Share	0%	6.0%	ranked lower	Mexico
Electricity Access (%)	99.6%	99.7%	equal	Mexico
Hospital Beds (per 1,000)	1.0 per 1k	1.0 per 1k	equal	Belize
Infant Mortality	10.8 per 1k births	10.8 per 1k births	equal	Belize
Nobel Laureates Born per Million People	0 per 1M people	0.02 per 1M people	ranked lower	Mexico
Lowest Elevation	0 m	-10 m	ranked higher	Belize
Current Account Balance (% of GDP)	-3.5% of GDP	-0.4% of GDP	ranked lower	Mexico
McDonald's Outlets per Million PeopleSource: © OpenStreetMap contributors - Open Database License (ODbL)	0 per 1M people	2.1 per 1M people	ranked lower	Mexico

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Analysis

Mexico leads in 69 of 105 shared metrics, while Belize leads in 36.

Belize's EV Chargers per 100,000 People is 8.0x that of Mexico (0.71 per 100k people vs 0.08 per 100k people).

Belize's Youth Unemployment Rate is 2.4x that of Mexico (19.32% of youth labor force vs 5.7% of youth labor force).

Belize's Unemployment Rate is 1.6x that of Mexico (7.0% vs 2.7%).

Belize's GDP Growth Rate is 1.5x that of Mexico (3.5% vs 1.4%).

Belize's Protected Land (%) is 1.4x that of Mexico (37.3% vs 15.3%).

Key Comparisons

Belize

0.71 per 100k people

Mexico

0.08 per 100k people

Youth Unemployment RateBelize leads

Belize

19.32% of youth labor force

Mexico

5.7% of youth labor force

Unemployment RateBelize leads

Belize

7.0%

Mexico

2.7%

GDP Growth RateBelize leads

Belize

3.5%

Mexico

1.4%

Protected Land (%)Belize leads

Belize

37.3%

Mexico

15.3%

Renewable Energy (%)Belize leads

Belize

30.8%

Mexico

13%

0.71 per 100k people

0.08 per 100k people

Youth Unemployment Rate

19.32% of youth labor force

5.7% of youth labor force

Unemployment Rate

7.0%

2.7%

GDP Growth Rate

3.5%

1.4%

Protected Land (%)

37.3%

15.3%

Renewable Energy (%)

30.8%

13%

Government Debt (% GDP)

99% of GDP

45.1% of GDP

Time Zones Count

2.0 time zones

1.0 time zones

Foreign Patents

15.0K

Population

422.0K

130.74M

Water Withdrawal

0.10 B m³

89.8 B m³

Scientific Publications

17.74

21.0K

GDP (Nominal)

$3,203,631,800

$1,856,365,616,165.94

High-Tech Exports (%)

0.00%

19.3%

Irrigated Land

35 km²

59.9K km²

Total CO2 Emissions

0.39 Mt CO2e

475.99 Mt CO2e

Electric Generating Capacity

220.0K kW

105.59M kW

Electricity Generation

0.45 TWh

361.28 TWh

Air Passengers

776.2K

78.76M

Tourist Arrivals

487.0K

51.13M

Belize vs Mexico

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Analysis

Key Comparisons

All Metrics

EV Chargers per 100,000 People

Youth Unemployment Rate

Unemployment Rate

GDP Growth Rate

Protected Land (%)

Renewable Energy (%)

Government Debt (% GDP)

Time Zones Count

Foreign Patents

Population

Water Withdrawal

Scientific Publications

GDP (Nominal)

High-Tech Exports (%)

Irrigated Land

Total CO2 Emissions

Electric Generating Capacity

Electricity Generation

Air Passengers

Tourist Arrivals

Land Area

Armed Forces Personnel

Forest Area

Airports

Water Stress (%)

Capital Elevation

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Coastline Length

Air Pollution (PM2.5)

Land Border Length

Agricultural Land (%)

Highest Elevation

Population Density

Solar Electricity Share

Women in Parliament (%)

Official Languages Count

Electricity Carbon Intensity

FDI Inflows (% GDP)

Forest Coverage (%)

Insufficient Physical Activity

Doctors (per 1,000)

Health Spending Per Capita

Broadband Access (%)

Exports (% GDP)

University Enrollment Rate

Urban Population (%)

Tobacco Use Prevalence

CO2 Per Capita

Road Traffic Death Rate

GNI Per Capita

GDP Per Capita (PPP)

Food Waste per Person

Vehicles per 1,000 People

Imports (% GDP)

Smoking Rate

Mobile Subscriptions (%)

Suicide Rate

Elderly Population (%)

Meat Consumption per Person

ATMs per 100,000 Adults

Corruption Perceptions Index

Border Neighbors

Mobile Money Accounts

Inflation Rate

Milk Consumption per Person

Health Spending (% GDP)

Digital Payments Used

Alcohol Consumption

Beer Consumption

Death Rate

Birth Rate

Spirits Consumption