Overview

• INEGI’s ENOE reports a 2.7% unemployment rate in Q2 2025, or about 1.6 million people, with the economically active population at 61.1 million and 59.4 million employed.
• Year-over-year job gains for April–June totaled 113,599, marking the weakest second-quarter increase in a decade, according to the survey and analysts’ tallies.
• Informal employment rose to 54.8% of workers (32.6 million), up about 398,000 from a year earlier, while suboccupation reached 7.2% (roughly 4.3 million).
• Employment expanded in services—especially commerce, transport, and professional/financial activities—even as construction lost about 226,000 jobs and manufacturing shed about 118,000.
• Recent breakdowns highlight uneven conditions: women’s unemployment increased in Querétaro despite an overall state decline, La Laguna shows high suboccupation and critical job conditions, and paid domestic work fell 4.4% with formal social security coverage below 5%.