Overview
- INEGI’s 2025 Módulo sobre Lectura reports newspaper use fell from 48.8% of readers in 2015 to 20% in 2025, marking a decade-long decline.
- Reading has shifted toward digital formats, with internet pages, forums and blogs now the second most read material after books.
- Overall, 79.1% of literate Mexicans aged 12 and over read at least one book, magazine, newspaper, comic or online page in the past year.
- Most people get information through social networks and digital media, with 83.5 million reporting they read content on platforms such as Facebook, WhatsApp or X.
- Younger and more educated groups report the highest reading rates, and more newspaper readers now access papers digitally than in print, according to the survey.