Mexico covers an area of 1,972,550 square kilometers, making the country’s population density to be about 63 people per square kilometer. Its capital city, Federal District, Mexico City, has a population of 21.2 million people with 9 million of these people living within the city. This makes Mexico City to be the most populous metropolitan town in the Western Hemisphere. Mexico has over the years indicated positive population growth. However, over the past two years, the annual population growth has dropped to less than 1%. The country has witnessed gradual increase in life expectancies. The life expectancy of women is higher than that of men by about 6 years. The fertility rate, noted as the number of children a woman has in her lifetime, has drastically dropped through the years to be at an all-time low for the country.