Overview
- STPS reports 26.5 million people in formal employment, equal to 44.6% of the employed population based on ENOE data for the third quarter of 2025.
- The revision reflects the inclusion of ISSSTE and other public social security regimes, adding roughly 4 million state workers to the formal tally.
- Informality is estimated at 55.4% of the employed workforce, about 33 million people.
- Under the updated approach, social protection coverage is estimated at 80.8%.
- Excluding the public component, formal private job growth was roughly 278,687 positions, signaling weak capacity to generate stable posts.