Overview

• INEGI’s ENOE reports 59.5 million employed and 1.8 million unemployed in August, with the economically active population falling by 1.2 million to 61.3 million.
• Job losses were concentrated in services, which shed about 1.0 million positions, while agriculture fell by 416,830 and industry posted a net gain of 185,439.
• Manufacturing added 254,038 jobs and mining rose by 28,598, offset by a loss of 97,197 in construction.
• Informal employment dropped by roughly 1.5 million to 32.6 million workers, lowering the informality rate to 54.8%.
• The non‑economically active population grew by 1.5 million to 42.9 million, and underemployment edged down to 7.1% or 4.2 million people, marking the biggest monthly job drop since January 2022.