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Published in final edited form as: Salud Publica Mex. 2019 Mar-Apr;61(2):116–124. doi: 10.21149/8863

Table I.

Structural characteriSticS of MunicipalitieS Involved in Study. Mexico, 2011–2015

Site	State	Total population	UNDP Town size classification	Human development (HD) index (0–1)	Level of HD (per UNDP)	HD index rank^*	Annual per capita income (US$)	Degree of marginalization	M Index (0–100)	M Index Rank^*	Years of education
01 Revolución	Delegación Cuauhtémoc	531 831	Urban large	0.8921	High	23	15 117	Medium low	4.6	13	11.32
02 Ciudad Neza	México	1 110 565	Metropolitan	0.8621	High	103	10 137	Medium low	8.9	114	9.5
03 Huajuapan	Oaxaca	69 839	Mixed	0.8248	High	333	6 781	Low	17.12	547	8.58
04 Iguala	Guerrero	140 363	Urban large	0.8343	High	261	8 346	Low	18.17	78	9.07
05 Ixtaltepec	Oaxaca	14 751	Mixed	0.8097	High	497	8 118	Medium	21.73	517	7.29
06 Naranjos	Veracruz	27 548	Urban medium	0.8453	High	189	9 106	Low	15.53	197	8.76
07 Guadalajara	Jalisco	1 495 189	Metropolitan	0.8882	High	34	14 281	Medium low	5.25	125	9.99
08 San Luis de la Paz	Guanajuato	115 656	Mixed	0.7418	Medium	1 487	5 721	Medium	25.34	16	6.76
09 San Luis Potosí	San Luis Potosí	772 604	Urban large	0.9011	High	14	16 758	Medium low	7.02	58	10.33
10 Tlapa	Guerrero	81 419	Urban medium	0.7174	Medium	1 788	4 045	High	33.63	54	6.74
11 Veracruz	Veracruz	552 156	Urban large	0.8848	High	41	14 859	Medium low	9.12	209	9.79
12 Tepeji del Río	Hidalgo	80 612	Mixed	0.8295	High	289	9 063	Low	15.98	66	8.22
13 Tuxtla	Chiapas	553 374	Urban large	0.855	High	140	10 502	Medium low	12.48	118	10.03
	Mean:	426 608.23				Mean:	10 218

Out of 2 546 municipalities in Mexico

UNDP: United Nations Development Programme

Town Size Classifications: Metropolitan: over 50% of the population living in cities of over one million inhabitants

Urban Large: over 50% of the population lives in towns between 100 thousand and less than one million inhabitants

Urban Medium: more than 50% of the population lives in towns between 15 000 and less than 100 000 inhabitants

Semi-urban: more than 50% of the population lives in towns from 2 500 to less than 15 thousand inhabitants

Rural: over 50% of the population lives in towns with less than 2 500 inhabitants

Mixed: The population is distributed in the above categories without a percentage greater than or equal to 50% population

Source: Sistema Nacional de Información Municipal¹²