Editing Demographics of Mexico (section)

====1793 census====
Also known as the "Revillagigedo census" from the name of the Count who ordered that it be conducted, this census was the first nationwide population census of Mexico (then known as the [[Viceroyalty of New Spain]]). Most of its original datasets have reportedly been lost, so most of what is known about it nowadays comes from essays and field investigations made by academics who had access to the census data and used it as reference for their works, such as Prussian geographer [[Alexander von Humboldt]]. 

Each author gives different estimations for each racial group in the country although they do not vary greatly, with Europeans ranging from 18% to 22% of New Spain's population, Mestizos from 21% to 25%, Indians from 51% to 61%, and Africans from 6,000 and 10,000. The estimations given for the total population range from 3,799,561 to 6,122,354. It is concluded then, that across nearly three centuries of colonization, the population growth trends of whites and mestizos were even, while the total percentage of the indigenous population decreased at a rate of 13%–17% per century. The authors assert that rather than whites and mestizos having higher birthrates, the reason for the indigenous population's numbers decreasing lies in their suffering higher mortality rates due to living in remote locations rather than in cities and towns founded by the Spanish colonists or in being at war with them. For the same reasons, the number of Indigenous Mexicans presents the greatest variation range between publications, as in some cases their numbers in a given location were estimated rather than counted, leading to possible overestimations in some provinces and possible underestimations in others.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lerner |first1=Victoria |title=Consideraciones sobre la población de la Nueva España (1793–1810): Según Humboldt y Navarro y Noriega |trans-title=Considerations on the population of New Spain (1793–1810): According to Humboldt and Navarro and Noriega |language=es |journal=Historia Mexicana |year=1968 |volume=17 |issue=3 |pages=327–348 |jstor=25134694 }}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="float:center; text-align:center;"
|-
!Intendecy or territory
!European population (%)
!Indigenous population (%)
!Mestizo population (%)
|-
|align="left"| [[State of Mexico|México]] (only the [[State of Mexico]] and [[Mexico City]])
| 16.9%
| 66.1%
| 16.7%
|-
|align="left"| [[Puebla]]
| 10.1%
| 74.3%
| 15.3%
|-
|align="left"| [[Oaxaca]]
| 06.3%
| 88.2%
| 05.2%
|-
|align="left"| [[Guanajuato]]
| 25.8%
| 44.0%
| 29.9%
|-
|align="left"| [[San Luis Potosí]]
| 13.0%
| 51.2%
| 35.7%
|-
|align="left"| [[Zacatecas]]
| 15.8%
| 29.0%
| 55.1%
|-
|align="left"| [[Durango]]
| 20.2%
| 36.0%
| 43.5%
|-
|align="left"| [[Sonora]]
| 28.5%
| 44.9%
| 26.4%
|-
|align="left"| [[Yucatán]]
| 14.8%
| 72.6%
| 12.3%
|-
|align="left"| [[Guadalajara]]
| 31.7%
| 33.3%
| 34.7%
|-
|align="left"| [[Veracruz]]
| 10.4%
| 74.0%
| 15.2%
|-
|align="left"| [[Michoacán|Valladolid]]
| 27.6%
| 42.5%
| 29.6%
|-
|align="left"| [[New Mexico|Nuevo México]]
|  ~
| 30.8%
| 69.0%
|-
|align="left"| [[Baja California|Vieja California]]
|  ~
| 51.7%
| 47.9%
|-
|align="left"| [[Alta California|Nueva California]]
|   ~
| 89.9%
| 09.8%
|-
|align="left"| [[Coahuila]]
| 30.9%
| 28.9%
| 40.0%
|-
|align="left"| [[Nuevo León]]
| 62.6%
| 05.5%
| 31.6%
|-
|align="left"| [[Nuevo Santander]]
| 25.8%
| 23.3%
| 50.8%
|-
|align="left"| [[Texas]]
| 39.7%
| 27.3%
| 32.4%
|-
|align="left"| [[Tlaxcala]]
| 13.6%
| 72.4%
| 13.8%
|-
|}
~<small>Europeans are included within the Mestizo category.</small>

Regardless of the possible inaccuracies related to the counting of Indigenous peoples living outside of the colonized areas, the effort that New Spain's authorities put into considering them as subjects is worth mentioning, as censuses made by other colonial or post-colonial countries did not consider American Indians to be citizens or subjects; for example, the censuses made by the [[Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata]] would only count the inhabitants of the colonized settlements.<ref name=scarecrow>''Historical Dictionary of Argentina''. London: Scarecrow Press, 1978. pp.&nbsp;239–40.</ref> Another example is the censuses made by the United States, which did not include Indigenous peoples living among the general population until 1860, and indigenous peoples as a whole until 1900.<ref>[https://www.archives.gov/research/census/native-americans/1790-1930.html "American Indians in the Federal Decennial Census"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120144444/https://www.archives.gov/research/census/native-americans/1790-1930.html |date=November 20, 2020 }}. Retrieved July 25, 2017.</ref>