Overview
- An Early Institute and SIPI México report released in October 2025 finds infant mortality rose 16.4% from 2022 to 2023, increasing from 13.8 to 16 deaths per 1,000 live births.
- The study documents a 13.6% rise in inadequate caregiving and household violence in 2022–2023, with sharp state spikes in investigations involving ages 0–4 (Oaxaca 1127%, Campeche 534%) even as the national total of new cases opened fell 6%, according to INEGI.
- Initial education access grew 5.9% nationally in 2022–2023, yet access declined in states such as Querétaro, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Michoacán and Tlaxcala, and preschool access fell in 2022–2024 in Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Nuevo León, Puebla and Guerrero.
- Despite a 20% drop in child poverty and a 12% decline in extreme poverty between 2018 and 2024, deprivation in access to health services rose 115% and overall vulnerability due to social deprivations increased 25%.
- The authors call to expand social programs for all children ages 0–5 in poverty, improve civil, school and health registries, pursue a national pact for early childhood, and raise investment beyond the current ~0.7% of the budget toward the UN’s 1.6% benchmark.