Overview

• Government transfers increased by 101% between 2016 and 2024, accounting for nearly 18% of average household income and bolstering earnings in the bottom deciles.
• Program coverage for the poorest households shrank from 78% in 2016 to 53% in 2024 even as the richest decile’s participation rose from 8% to 21%.
• The richest 10% of households earned an average of 78,698 pesos per month in 2024, fourteen times the 5,598 pesos received by the poorest decile.
• Women earned 23,714 pesos per quarter on average compared with 36,047 pesos for men, maintaining a 34.2% gender income gap.
• Quarterly incomes ranged from 117,000 pesos in Nuevo León to 41,000 pesos in Chiapas, highlighting entrenched regional disparities.