Overview
- Mexico observes Doctors’ Day on October 23, a date instituted in 1937 to honor Valentín Gómez Farías, who inaugurated the Establecimiento de Ciencias Médicas in 1833.
- Recent tallies place Mexico at roughly 2.4–2.5 doctors per 1,000 inhabitants versus the OECD average near 3.5, with the 2023 labor survey citing about 666,000 practicing physicians and Data México reporting a 56.1% female workforce share in 2025.
- Specialists remain concentrated in Mexico City, which reports 35,470 and a density of 385 per 100,000 residents, while states such as Guerrero register as few as 3 per 100,000.
- Income figures diverge by role, with IMCO estimating average monthly pay of 35,033 pesos for specialists and 24,529 for general practitioners, while Q1 2025 Data México shows a smaller 346,000-person workforce, a 17% quarterly rise in average pay to 8,910 pesos, and a 21.1% informality rate.
- Doctoralia reports more than 330,000 specialists on its platform and over 23 million annual appointments, with the fastest digital adoption growth in Baja California (+49.9%), Mexico City (+47.7%), Nuevo León (+44.8%) and the State of Mexico (+41.5%).