Employment Rate in Mexico decreased to 97.02 percent in September from 97.07 percent in August of 2025. This dataset provides - Mexico Employment Rate- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

The employment rate in Mexico stood at approximately 58.71 percent in 2023. Between 2010 and 2023, the rate rose by around 2.21 percentage points, though the increase followed an uneven trajectory rather than a consistent upward trend.

Unemployment Rate in Mexico decreased to 2.60 percent in October from 3 percent in September of 2025. This dataset provides the latest reported value for - Mexico Unemployment Rate - plus previous releases, historical high and low, short-term forecast and long-term prediction, economic calendar, survey consensus and news.

The statistic depicts the unemployment rate in Mexico from 1999 to 2024. In 2024, Mexico's unemployment rate was around 2.71 percent. Mexico's population Mexico is the third largest country in North America. Mexico’s economy has developed and improved over the years, partially due to a better relationship with the United States. Mexico’s total population was estimated to amount to around 120 million people in 2014, with the majority, i.e. more than 60 percent, having a Mestizo background. Despite a remarkably high migration flow between Mexico and the United States, with more than 11.5 million Mexican migrants living in the United States, Mexico’s population is still growing at a constant rate. In addition, life expectancy in Mexico is increasing, pointing towards an improvement of living conditions. However, the high total population numbers affect the population density. In 2012, there were more than 62 inhabitants per square kilometer registered, ten more than a decade ago. This trend is most likely to increase but not worriyngly so, since Mexico is still far from being one of the countries with the highest population density . Among the Mexican metropolises, Mexico City has the highest number of residents by far.

In the first quarter of 2025, the share of employment in the informal sector in Mexico was 54.5 percent. Throughout the whole period under consideration, the fourth quarter of 2015 accounts with the highest share for informal employment with a 57.9 percent. In the contrast, the second quarter of 2020 recorded the lowest share in this sector with around 51 percent. Labor Market overview In 2022, the labor force participation rate in Mexico has remained stable at 65 percent. Nearly 58.5 million people are employed and 1.8 million are unemployed, encompassing over 60 million with those who are fully employed, partially employed, and actively seeking employment. Furthermore, the majority of the workforce was concentrated in the services sector, accounting for nearly two-thirds of the total labor market.
Unemployment Mexico has experienced a consistent decrease in the unemployment rate over the last three years, reaching a rate of 3.31 percent in 2022. The youth population has been particularly affected by this trend, and their level of educational attainment has not been sufficient to mitigate these effects. The primary reason for unemployment has been the termination of contracts, and the lack of job opportunities has resulted in nearly 920,000 people with higher education degrees being unemployed as of 2023.

Graph and download economic data for Infra-Annual Labor Statistics: Employment Rate Male: From 25 to 54 Years for Mexico (LREM25MAMXQ156S) from Q1 2005 to Q2 2025 about 25 to 54 years, employment-population ratio, Mexico, males, population, employment, and rate.

Mexico MX: Employment Rate Gap data was reported at 0.230 % in 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.068 % for 2025. Mexico MX: Employment Rate Gap data is updated yearly, averaging 0.193 % from Dec 1995 (Median) to 2026, with 32 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 2.900 % in 2006 and a record low of -6.086 % in 2020. Mexico MX: Employment Rate Gap data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.OECD.EO: Employment and Unemployment: Forecast: OECD Member: Annual.

As of March 2022, there was a lower employment rate for the female population in every age group with different parental status of the Mexican Population. The lowest average rate accounted for the ** to 20-year-old group age for females without children with **** percent, while there was a ** percent employment rate for the male population under the same parental status.

The rate of illegal employment is much higher among boys than girls in Mexico. In 2017, child labor among boys aged 5 to 17 reached **** percent, whereas among girls it amounted to *** percent. The prevalence of illegal employment in the population aged 5 to 17 has improved in both genders when compared to 2015.

Mexico MX: Trend Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data was reported at 62.784 % in 2026. This records an increase from the previous number of 62.770 % for 2025. Mexico MX: Trend Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data is updated yearly, averaging 57.615 % from Dec 1991 (Median) to 2026, with 36 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 62.784 % in 2026 and a record low of 53.345 % in 1991. Mexico MX: Trend Employment Rate: Age 15-74 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.OECD.EO: Employment and Unemployment: Forecast: OECD Member: Annual.

In the second quarter of 2024, the Mexico City was the Mexican federal entity with the largest unemployment rate of 4.04 percent. In contrast, the unemployment rate in Guerrero amounted to 1.04 percent.

In 2023, over 13.7 million people aged between 25 and 34 were employed in Mexico, the most numerous employed age group in that period. This represented approximately 23.4 percent of the total. By contrast, workers aged 65 years or more made up for 5.7 percent of the labour force. That year, the adult employment rate in this country was below the average of the OECD bloc.

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In June 2025, 2.6 percent of the economically active population in Mexico was considered unemployed, down from 4.61 percent registered in the same month of 2021. In June 2020, just a few months after the COVID-19 outbreak, the unemployment rate reached its highest monthly value since the beginning of 2019, at 5.32 percent.

The statistic shows the distribution of the workforce across economic sectors in Mexico from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, 11.96 percent of the workforce in Mexico were employed in agriculture, 25.03 percent in industry and 63 percent in services.

Mexico Labour Force: Employment Rate: Male data was reported at 96.844 % in Mar 2019. This records an increase from the previous number of 96.807 % for Feb 2019. Mexico Labour Force: Employment Rate: Male data is updated monthly, averaging 95.974 % from Jan 2005 (Median) to Mar 2019, with 171 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 97.341 % in May 2006 and a record low of 93.964 % in Sep 2009. Mexico Labour Force: Employment Rate: Male data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by National Institute of Statistics and Geography. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G011: Employment Rate: ENOE 2015: Age 15 and Above. Since May 2013, Unemployment Rate is not comparable to prior months due to the new population projection data from CONAPO are incorporated.

There were a total of ******* new formal jobs in Mexico in July 2022 compared to the number registered in July 2019, before the national labor market suffered the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Baja California, Nuevo Leon and Jalisco were the states that led the recovery in employment levels, as in each of them there were over ******** new workers inscribed in the IMSS (the Mexican Institute of Social Security) in July 2022 compared to the same month three years earlier. By contrast, Mexico City had lost more than ******* jobs.

Graph and download economic data for Employment to Population Rate: All Ages: Males for Mexico (LREPTTMAMXQ156S) from Q1 2005 to Q1 2020 about employment-population ratio, Mexico, males, population, employment, and rate.

This table presents the key figures for the labor market in Mexico as of December 2018. As of this point in time, Mexico had an employment rate of 96.65 percent. The minimum wage in the country was estimated at 102.68 Mexican pesos a day. Peru's employment rate amounted to 94 percent.

The services sector employed the largest share of workers in Mexico City as of the second quarter of 2024, with ***** percent. The commerce industry ranked second, with about ** percent of employed population in the country's capital working in this sector.