---
title: "Australia vs Mexico — area, population, currency"
description: "Australia is 7,741,220 km² with 27,614,411 people; Mexico is 1,964,375 km² with 131,946,900. Area, density, currency, languages and time zones side by side."
url: https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-mexico/
site: "At One Place"
---

# Australia vs Mexico

**Australia vs Mexico: Australia is larger; Mexico has more people**

7,741,220 km² vs 1,964,375 km² · 27,614,411 vs 131,946,900

Australia is 3.9 times larger than Mexico — 7,741,220 against 1,964,375 km². Mexico is 4.8 times more populous than Australia — 131,946,900 against 27,614,411 people.

## Side by side

|  | Australia | Mexico |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Capital | Canberra | Mexico City |
| Area | 7,741,220 km² | 1,964,375 km² |
| Population | 27,614,411 (2025) | 131,946,900 (2025) |
| Density | 3.6 /km² | 67.2 /km² |
| Currency | Australian dollar (AUD) | Mexican peso (MXN) |
| Official languages | English | Spanish |
| Time zones | UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 | UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00 |
| Calling code | +61 | +52 |
| Drives on the | left | right |
| Continent | Oceania | North America |
| ISO codes | AU / AUS | MX / MEX |

## Population density

Mexico is 19 times more densely populated than Australia — 67 against 4 people per km². Density is where area and population interact, and it often reverses the impression the headline figures give — a large country with a small population can feel emptier than a small crowded one by an enormous margin.

## Practical differences

- They drive on opposite sides — Australia on the left, Mexico on the right.
- Different currencies: the Australian dollar and the Mexican peso.
- Australia spans 5 time zones, so "local time" there is not a single answer.
- Different continents — Oceania and North America.

## Australia

The sixth-largest country in the world and the only one that covers an entire continent. The Great Barrier Reef runs about 2,300 km and is the largest structure made by living organisms on Earth, visible from orbit. Around eighty percent of its mammals, reptiles and flowering plants exist nowhere else. Melbourne and Sydney are within roughly a hundred thousand people of each other, and which counts as the largest city depends on where the boundary is drawn.

## Mexico

Mexico has the fourth-highest count of vertebrate and plant species of any country, and more reptile species than anywhere else. Chicxulub, under the northern Yucatán, is the roughly 180 km crater left by the asteroid impact 66 million years ago. The Sistema Sac Actun beneath the same peninsula is the longest known underwater cave system in the world, over 370 km surveyed.

> Neutral facts only. Nothing here addresses politics, government, economics or which country is preferable in any respect — population is the one figure that dates, and it carries its year.

## Common questions

### Is Australia bigger than Mexico?

Australia is larger — 7,741,220 km² against 1,964,375 km².

### Which has more people, Australia or Mexico?

Mexico, with 131,946,900 against 27,614,411.

### What is the time difference between Australia and Mexico?

Australia is UTC+08:00, UTC+08:45, UTC+09:30, UTC+10:00, UTC+10:30 and Mexico is UTC-08:00, UTC-07:00, UTC-06:00, UTC-05:00. Daylight saving shifts the gap during the year in places that observe it.

## Related pages

- [Australia](https://atoneplace.net/country/australia/)
- [Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country/mexico/)
- [India vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/india-vs-mexico/)
- [China vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/china-vs-mexico/)
- [Japan vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/japan-vs-mexico/)
- [Canada vs Mexico](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/canada-vs-mexico/)
- [Australia vs United States](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-states/)
- [Australia vs India](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-india/)
- [Australia vs China](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-china/)
- [Australia vs United Kingdom](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-united-kingdom/)
- [Australia vs Japan](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-japan/)
- [Australia vs Canada](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-canada/)
- [Australia vs New Zealand](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-new-zealand/)
- [Australia vs France](https://atoneplace.net/country-vs/australia-vs-france/)

## Sources

- The World Factbook — Central Intelligence Agency (https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/) [Public domain (US Government)]
- World Bank Open Data — The World Bank (https://data.worldbank.org/) [CC BY 4.0]