List of Mexican states by population

The following table is a list of the 31 federal states of Mexico plus Mexico City, ranked in order of their total population based on data from the last three National Population Census in 2020, 2010 and 2000.

Rank	State	Population (2020)[1]	Population (2010)[2]	Population (2000)[3]
1	México	16,992,418	15,175,862	13,096,686
2	Ciudad de México	9,209,944	8,851,080	8,605,239
3	Jalisco	8,348,151	7,350,682	6,322,002
4	Veracruz	8,062,579	7,643,194	6,908,975
5	Puebla	6,583,278	5,779,829	5,076,686
6	Guanajuato	6,166,934	5,486,372	4,663,032
7	Nuevo León	5,784,442	4,653,458	3,834,141
8	Chiapas	5,543,828	4,796,580	3,920,892
9	Michoacán	4,748,846	4,351,037	4,384,471
10	Oaxaca	4,132,148	3,801,962	3,438,765
11	Baja California	3,769,020	3,155,070	2,487,367
12	Chihuahua	3,741,869	3,406,465	3,052,907
13	Guerrero	3,540,685	3,388,768	3,079,649
14	Tamaulipas	3,527,735	3,268,554	2,753,222
15	Coahuila de Zaragoza	3,146,771	2,748,391	2,298,070
16	Hidalgo	3,082,841	2,665,018	2,235,591
17	Sinaloa	3,026,943	2,767,761	2,536,844
18	Sonora	2,944,840	2,662,480	2,216,969
19	San Luis Potosí	2,822,255	2,585,518	2,299,360
20	Tabasco	2,402,598	2,238,603	1,891,829
21	Querétaro de Arteaga	2,368,467	1,827,937	1,404,306
22	Yucatán	2,320,898	1,955,577	1,658,210
23	Morelos	1,971,520	1,777,227	1,555,296
24	Quintana Roo	1,857,985	1,325,578	874,963
25	Durango	1,832,650	1,632,934	1,448,661
26	Zacatecas	1,622,138	1,490,668	1,353,610
27	Aguascalientes	1,425,607	1,184,996	944,285
28	Tlaxcala	1,342,977	1,169,936	962,646
29	Nayarit	1,235,456	1,084,979	920,185
30	Campeche	928,363	822,441	690,689
31	Baja California Sur	798,447	637,026	424,041
32	Colima	731,391	650,555	542,627
Total		126,014,024	112,336,538	97,483,412