Overview

• Multidimensional poverty fell from 36.3 percent of the population in 2022 to 29.6 percent in 2024, corresponding to 38.5 million people, while extreme poverty declined to 5.3 percent (7.0 million people).
• The report marks INEGI’s inauguration of poverty measurement duties previously held by Coneval, relying on ENIGH 2024 survey data and publishing standard errors and analytic code to ensure methodological transparency.
• INEGI and independent analyses link the decline chiefly to real-wage gains following substantial minimum-wage hikes and to expanded direct transfers for vulnerable households.
• Despite income improvements, 48.2 percent of the population lacks social security and 34.2 percent lack access to health services, and the number of people vulnerable to social deprivations rose to about 41.9 million.
• Reductions have been geographically uneven, with southern states such as Chiapas, Guerrero and Oaxaca recording the highest poverty rates and northern states including Baja California and Nuevo León the lowest.