Side by side
Mexico and United States compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
27 September 1821 — The Treaty of Córdoba ends Spanish rule and the Mexican Empire is declared
4 July 1776 — The Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence
- Shared indicators
- 47
- Domains
- 9
- Crossed events
- 3
- Data through
- 2026-08-10
The figures, side by side
Each figure is the same observation, with the same source, as on the two dossiers. Every value shows the year it was observed — vintages differ by indicator and nation. A “—” is an absence in the source data, never a zero. Metric names link to the world ranking; values open the figure on its own dossier.
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Entangled histories
3 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- c. 1100 CE
Cahokia at its height
The Mississippian city of Cahokia, near present-day St. Louis, reached its peak as one of the largest urban centres north of Mexico, anchored by monumental earthen mounds.
Culture & Ideas · from the United States chronicle · Indigenous America before contact · Abraham Lincoln and Emancipation; U.S. History Collections
- 1846-1848
Mexican-American War
Defeat by the United States costs Mexico roughly half its territory under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
War & Rupture · from the Mexico chronicle · Independence and the Early Republic · Benito Juarez
- 1 Jan 1994
NAFTA and the Zapatista uprising
The North American Free Trade Agreement takes effect as the Zapatistas rise in Chiapas; a peso crisis follows that December.
Economy & Trade · from the Mexico chronicle · Modern Mexico: The PRI Era to Today · Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN)