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 a 2015 Intercensal Survey, as well as the censuses of 2010 and 2000. All numbers are from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography.[1]

Map of each state's population as of 2012
Rank	State	Population (2015)[2]	Population (2010)[3]	Population (2000)[4]
1	México	16,187,608	15,175,862	13,096,686
2	Ciudad de México	8,918,653	8,851,080	8,605,239
3	Veracruz	8,112,505	7,643,194	6,908,975
4	Jalisco	7,844,830	7,350,682	6,322,002
5	Puebla	6,168,883	5,779,829	5,076,686
6	Guanajuato	5,853,677	5,486,372	4,663,032
7	Chiapas	5,217,908	4,796,580	3,920,892
8	Nuevo León	5,119,504	4,653,458	3,834,141
9	Michoacán	4,584,471	4,351,037	4,384,471
10	Oaxaca	3,967,889	3,801,962	3,438,765
11	Chihuahua	3,556,574	3,406,465	3,052,907
12	Guerrero	3,533,251	3,388,768	3,079,649
13	Tamaulipas	3,441,698	3,268,554	2,753,222
14	Baja California	3,315,766	3,155,070	2,487,367
15	Sinaloa	2,966,321	2,767,761	2,536,844
16	Coahuila de Zaragoza	2,954,915	2,748,391	2,298,070
17	Hidalgo	2,858,359	2,665,018	2,235,591
18	Sonora	2,850,330	2,662,480	2,216,969
19	San Luis Potosí	2,717,820	2,585,518	2,299,360
20	Tabasco	2,395,272	2,238,603	1,891,829
21	Yucatán	2,097,175	1,955,577	1,658,210
22	Querétaro de Arteaga	2,038,372	1,827,937	1,404,306
23	Morelos	1,903,811	1,777,227	1,555,296
24	Durango	1,754,754	1,632,934	1,448,661
25	Zacatecas	1,579,209	1,490,668	1,353,610
26	Quintana Roo	1,501,562	1,325,578	874,963
27	Aguascalientes	1,312,544	1,184,996	944,285
28	Tlaxcala	1,272,847	1,169,936	962,646
29	Nayarit	1,181,050	1,084,979	920,185
30	Campeche	899,931	822,441	690,689
31	Baja California Sur	712,029	637,026	424,041
32	Colima	711,235	650,555	542,627
Total		119,530,753	112,336,538	97,483,412