Overview
- Inegi’s ENOE reports a month‑on‑month drop of 1,058,179 employed persons, leaving 59.8 million occupied and a 61.5 million labor force.
- The contraction was concentrated in the informal economy, with roughly 1.1 million informal jobs lost while formal employment rose by about 46,000.
- Women bore almost all of the monthly losses, with about 996,000 positions eliminated, equivalent to 94% of the total decline.
- The open unemployment rate ticked up to 2.7% (1.6 million people), while the expanded rate that includes those available but not searching increased to roughly 10.7% as inactivity rose.
- Services posted the steepest cuts—over 800,000 jobs, including about 240,000 in restaurants and lodging—alongside declines in manufacturing, and informality stood at 54.8% (32.8 million), with 17.5 million in the informal sector.