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 June 2025, Mexico's unemployment rate stood at 2.69 percent, following a fluctuating trend experienced in the North American country since January of that same year. During the time under consideration, unemployment peaked in June 2020, when the rate reached almost 5.5 percent.

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.

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.

Mexico Unemployment Rate: Tertiary Education as % of Labour Force data was reported at 38.694 % in Jun 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 38.176 % for May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Tertiary Education as % of Labour Force data is updated monthly, averaging 38.176 % from Apr 2020 to Jun 2020, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 38.694 % in Jun 2020 and a record low of 31.882 % in Apr 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Tertiary Education as % of Labour Force 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.G049: Unemployment Rate: ETOE 2020: Age 15 and Above. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force: Female data was reported at 4.837 % in Jun 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 2.721 % for May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force: Female data is updated monthly, averaging 4.183 % from Apr 2020 (Median) to Jun 2020, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 4.837 % in Jun 2020 and a record low of 2.721 % in May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force: Female 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.G062: Unemployment Rate: ETOE 2020: Age 15 and Above. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Mexico's unemployment rate was 2.46 percent in the first quarter of 2025, which represented a slight decrease compared to the previous quarter. Furthermore, in that three-month time period, Coahuila was the federal entity with the highest unemployment rate. The unemployment rate in Mexico registered an upward trend between the last quarter of 2019 and the third quarter of 2020, when it peaked at 5.15 percent.

Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force data was reported at 5.492 % in Jun 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 4.193 % for May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force data is updated monthly, averaging 4.675 % from Apr 2020 (Median) to Jun 2020, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.492 % in Jun 2020 and a record low of 4.193 % in May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Labour Force 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.G062: Unemployment Rate: ETOE 2020: Age 15 and Above. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Graph and download economic data for Unemployment to Population Rate: All Ages: All Persons for Mexico (LRUPTTTTMXQ156N) from Q1 2005 to Q1 2020 about Mexico, population, unemployment, and rate.

The open unemployment rate in Mexico amounted to *** percent in June 2020, a *** percentage point increase compared to a month earlier. Open unemployment refers to the economically active population that do not have a job but are looking for and available to work. In March 2020, Mexico's unemployment rate stood at *** percent. On February 29, 2020 the first two cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) were reported in Mexico, leading authorities to take containment measures in the following weeks to halt the spread of the virus.

Mexico Unemployment Rate: Unspecified Education as % of Labour Force data was reported at 0.021 % in Jun 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 0.016 % for May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Unspecified Education as % of Labour Force data is updated monthly, averaging 0.021 % from Apr 2020 (Median) to Jun 2020, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.024 % in Apr 2020 and a record low of 0.016 % in May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Unspecified Education as % of Labour Force 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.G062: Unemployment Rate: ETOE 2020: Age 15 and Above. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

Mexico Unemployment Rate: Complete Primary Education as % of Labour Force data was reported at 17.730 % in Jun 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 8.854 % for May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Complete Primary Education as % of Labour Force data is updated monthly, averaging 16.751 % from Apr 2020 (Median) to Jun 2020, with 3 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 17.730 % in Jun 2020 and a record low of 8.854 % in May 2020. Mexico Unemployment Rate: Complete Primary Education as % of Labour Force 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.G062: Unemployment Rate: ETOE 2020: Age 15 and Above. [COVID-19-IMPACT]

In April 2020, the Mexican labor market took the hardest hit from the COVID-19 pandemic. That month, nearly **** million jobs were lost in the North American country. The labor market slowly recovered in the following months, with June 2020 registering the largest job creation since the outbreak of the pandemic: the number of employed persons grew in **** million that month. In August 2023, the latest data available, approximately ******* new jobs were created.

For most of the period under study, the more the years of schooling of the urban active population in Mexico, the higher the unemployment for people who are willing to work. The share of urban open unemployment among those with 10 to 12 years of schooling, as well as for those with 13 years or more, peaked in 2020 at 6.7 and 6.3 percent, respectively.

The population in Mexico who did not complete primary education is the group who experienced the lowest recovery in employment after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, they are not the only one group not fully recovered; as of the second quarter of 2023, persons graduated from high school or from higher education presented better levels of employment than in the first quarter of 2020.

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.

Mexico Coverage: Unemployment Benefits & Active Labour Market Programs: % of Population data was reported at 0.412 % in 2022. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.780 % for 2020. Mexico Coverage: Unemployment Benefits & Active Labour Market Programs: % of Population data is updated yearly, averaging 0.596 % from Dec 2020 (Median) to 2022, with 2 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 0.780 % in 2020 and a record low of 0.412 % in 2022. Mexico Coverage: Unemployment Benefits & Active Labour Market Programs: % of Population data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by World Bank. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.World Bank.WDI: Social: Social Protection and Insurance. Coverage of unemployment benefits and active labor market programs (ALMP) shows the percentage of population participating in unemployment compensation, severance pay, and early retirement due to labor market reasons, labor market services (intermediation), training (vocational, life skills, and cash for training), job rotation and job sharing, employment incentives and wage subsidies, supported employment and rehabilitation, and employment measures for the disabled. Estimates include both direct and indirect beneficiaries.;ASPIRE: The Atlas of Social Protection - Indicators of Resilience and Equity, The World Bank. Data are based on national representative household surveys. (datatopics.worldbank.org/aspire/);;

Mexico BDM Forecast: Average Unemployment Rate: Average data was reported at 3.790 % in 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 3.610 % for 2019. Mexico BDM Forecast: Average Unemployment Rate: Average data is updated yearly, averaging 3.880 % from Dec 2013 (Median) to 2020, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.000 % in 2013 and a record low of 3.410 % in 2018. Mexico BDM Forecast: Average Unemployment Rate: Average data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bank of Mexico. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Mexico – Table MX.G026: Unemployment: ENOE 2010: Age 15 and Above: Forecast.

In 2023, the unemployment rate in New Mexico was at 3.8 percent. This is a decrease from the previous year, when the unemployment rate stood at 4.1 percent, and significantly lower than in 2020, when the unemployment rate was 7.9 percent.

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.