In 2024, the Mexican business magnate Carlos Slim Helu and his family had a fortune worth of 102 billion U.S. dollars and was thus the richest person in the country. The Helu family owns América Móvil, Latin America's biggest mobile telecom company.The second richest person in Mexico that year was German Larrea Velasco, who owns the majority of Mexico’s largest copper mining company, with a fortune of nearly 28 billion U.S. dollars.

Net primary income (BoP, current US$) in Mexico was reported at --43693780290 USD in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net income (BoP, current US$) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

In 2022, about 40 percent of adults in Mexico held a net worth under 10,000 U.S. dollars. In contrast, merely 393,000 Mexicans (that is, 0.4 percent of the total) had a net worth of over one million U.S. dollars. Mexico is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America regarding wealth distribution, with 78.7 percent of the national wealth held by the richest ten percent of the population.

The minimum salaryThe minimum wage per day guaranteed by law in Mexico was decreed to increase by 22 percent between 2021 and 2022, reaching 172.87 Mexican pesos in 2022. In the Free Zone located near the northern border the minimum daily wage was raised to 260.34 Mexican pesos.This represented the fourth consecutive incrase since 2019, but could prove to be insufficient to maintain the wellbeing of Mexican workers after the soaring inflation rate registered in 2022 and the economic impact of the COVID-19 in Mexican households. The legal minimum salary has a long history in the North American country, it was first implemented with the approval of the Political Constitution of the United Mexican States in 1917. Income inequality in Latin AmericaLatin America, as other developing regions in the world, generally records high rates of inequality, with a Gini coefficient ranging between 38 and 54 among the region’s countries. Moreover, many of the countries with the biggest inequality in income distribution worldwide are found in Latin America. According to the Human Development Report 2019, wealth redistribution by means of tax transfers improves Latin America's Gini coefficient to a lesser degree than it does in advanced economies. Wider access to education and health services, on the other hand, have been proven to have a greater direct effect in improving Gini coefficient measurements in the region.

In 2024, Scotiabank's net income of Scotiabank declined to 10.93 billion Mexican pesos after reaching its peak of 11.3 billion Mexican pesos in the previous year. In 2024, the bank was ranked third among leading Mexican banks in terms of efficiency ratio, amounting to 47.8 percent.

Net primary income (Net income from abroad) (current US$) in Mexico was reported at --44632117174 USD in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net income from abroad - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

The net income of Grupo Mexico with headquarters in Mexico amounted to 2.94 billion U.S. dollars in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 1.17 billion U.S. dollars. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

Net foreign assets (current LCU) in Mexico was reported at 4978059404858 LCU in 2024, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net foreign assets (current LCU) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

In 2023, the net income of Walmart Mexico and its subsidiaries in Central America amounted to approximately 51.59 billion Mexican pesos. In that year, the net income of Organización Soriana in Mexico was equal to five billion Mexican pesos. Walmart, Soriana, Chedraui and La Comer were the main supermarket companies in Mexico by market share.

Net primary income (Net income from abroad) (current LCU) in Mexico was reported at --792609138000 LCU in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net income from abroad (current LCU) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

The net income of Wal-Mart De Mexico with headquarters in Mexico amounted to 51.59 billion Mexican pesos in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 13.69 billion Mexican pesos. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.

Adjusted net national income (current US$) in Mexico was reported at 950153268147 USD in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Adjusted net national income - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Adjusted net national income per capita (current US$) in Mexico was reported at 7444 USD in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Adjusted net national income per capita - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

Net acquisition of financial assets (% of GDP) in Mexico was reported at 0.23417 % in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net acquisition of financial assets (% of GDP) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on May of 2025.

Key information about Mexico Household Income per Capita

• Mexico Annual Household Income per Capita reached 3,690.156 USD in Dec 2022, compared with the previous value of 2,639.778 USD in Dec 2020.
• Mexico Annual Household Income per Capita data is updated yearly, available from Dec 2006 to Dec 2022, with an averaged value of 3,322.376 USD.
• The data reached an all-time high of 4,169.817 USD in Dec 2008 and a record low of 2,639.778 USD in Dec 2020.
• In the latest reports, Retail Sales of Mexico grew 4.584 % YoY in Apr 2023.

CEIC calculates Annual Household Income per Capita from Quarterly Average Household Income per Capita multiplied by 4 and converts it into USD. The National Institute of Statistics and Geography provides Average Household Income per Capita in local currency. Federal Reserve Board average market exchange rate is used for currency conversions.

The zip files contain several files with wills from Mexico between 1810 and 1910 collected in order to measure Mexican wealth distribution in its first century of independence. The main file is wills_clean.xlsx, which contains the full collection of wills; in that file, you will find variables for year, state, and wealth, not excluding debts, debts and wealth (net wealth). You can combine this file with the do file cleaningroutine_for_social_tables to produce the detailed social tables. The rest of the files consist of data files with the social tables (for comparison) and xlsx files with the wills from the main file divided by decade to facilitate calculations using the do file inequality_analysis_ routine_clean.do from which you will be able to reproduce the rest of the analysis (unbalanced sample and generalized beta, lognormal, etc.) Note: The calculation programs are .do files; thus, they require stata to be executed. Some of the detailed social tables are dta files, and thus also stata files. You can open them in R and work with them or convert them to any other data format. The wills come from 5 different Mexican archives: Archivo Histórico de Notarias de la Ciudad de México, Archivo General del Estado de Yucatán, Archivo Municipal de Saltillo, Archivo Histórico de la Ciudad de Morelia and, Testamentos del Colegio de Sonora.

Grupo Financiero Santander Mexico S.A B De C.V net income from 2013 to 2023. Net income can be defined as company's net profit or loss after all revenues, income items, and expenses have been accounted for.

Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU) in Mexico was reported at 74400823003 LCU in 2023, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Net acquisition of financial assets (current LCU) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on May of 2025.

Adjusted net national income (annual % growth) in Mexico was reported at 2.4165 % in 2021, according to the World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially recognized sources. Mexico - Adjusted net national income (annual % growth) - actual values, historical data, forecasts and projections were sourced from the World Bank on June of 2025.

The net income of Telefonos De Mexico with headquarters in Mexico amounted to -9.3 billion Mexican pesos in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total decrease by approximately 17.97 billion Mexican pesos. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this decrease did not happen continuously.

The net income of Grupo Bimbo with headquarters in Mexico amounted to 15.48 billion Mexican pesos in 2023. The reported fiscal year ends on December 31.Compared to the earliest depicted value from 2019 this is a total increase by approximately 9.34 billion Mexican pesos. The trend from 2019 to 2023 shows, however, that this increase did not happen continuously.