Poverty Headcount / Mexico
Mexico Poverty Headcount
Mexico poverty headcount data with historical trend, latest available year, ranking, source notes and country comparison. Latest value: 29.60%.
COUNTRY: Mexico
UNIT: percent of GDP
SOURCE: World Bank / public data sources
UPDATED: 2026-07-06 05:11:11
GM ECONOMY RATING
Mexico · Economic Stability Rating
Composite rating based on inflation, growth, debt, unemployment and current account.
BBB
67 / 100
Good stability
Fiscal stability
10.0 / 25
Macroeconomic stability
14.0 / 20
External stability
11.0 / 15
Financial robustness
12.0 / 15
Structural stability
13.0 / 15
Future capacity
7.0 / 10
Demographic capacity
3.5 / 5
Method: GM Economy multi-pillar stability model with structural and financial robustness adjustment. Coverage: 100% of weighted inputs available.
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Mexico · poverty headcount data as percent of GDP.
Latest
29.60%
Previous
36.30%
Range avg.
38.98%
Rank
15
Countries by poverty headcount
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CountryMexico
IndicatorPoverty Headcount
29.60%2024 · Rank 15
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All indicators
Prices & Inflation3
Growth & Output9
Public Finance8
Labor Market6
External Sector5
Monetary & Financial7
Population & Society7
Energy & Environment2
Interpretation
Mexico recorded 29.60% for Poverty Headcount in 2024, the latest available observation in this dataset.
Compared with 2022, the indicator decreased by 6.70 percentage points, from 36.30% to 29.60%.
The latest observation is below the average of the last 5 available observations (38.98%).
Across the five latest available observations (2016–2024), the pattern is predominantly downward.
Within the last 5 available observations, the low was 29.60% in 2024 and the high was 43.90% in 2020.
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