Overview
- INEGI reports 14.5 million people aged 15–29 were outside economic activity in Q1 2025, equal to 47.6% of the cohort, with women comprising 63.4% of that inactive group and a youth jobless rate of 4.8% versus 2.5% overall.
- As of September 2025, Mexico had 1.85 million unemployed, and six in ten had upper‑secondary or higher education, with most unemployed concentrated between ages 15 and 44, according to INEGI.
- CONAVI estimates 9.8 million people aged 12–29 live with housing deficit, and young adults are concentrated in rentals due to limited ability to afford or obtain mortgage credit.
- INEGI data cited in recent reporting show the 15–29 population fell 3.5%—about 1.1 million people—between 2023 and 2025, a drop analysts say will weigh on the labor force for decades.
- Civil society cites 69,331 disappearances of people aged 15–29 from December 2018 through 2024 and reports a first‑half 2025 surge among 15–19‑year‑olds, while recruitment by criminal groups remains untypified in law despite UN recommendations since 2011.