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Unpaid Household and Care Work Equaled 23.9% of Mexico’s 2024 GDP, INEGI Finds

INEGI’s 2024 satellite account assigns a market value to unpaid labor in homes, exposing deep gender gaps.

Overview

  • At current prices the valuation totals 8 trillion pesos, marking a second consecutive annual increase.
  • Women generated 72.6% of the economic value—2.7 times men’s share—and accounted for 73.8 of every 100 hours of this work.
  • On average the unpaid labor equates to 60,379 pesos per person in 2024, with 82,339 pesos for women and 34,695 pesos for men.
  • The share exceeds the contributions of manufacturing at 20.1% of GDP and commerce at 18.7%, according to INEGI’s comparison.
  • A broadened measure that incorporates emotional care lifts the total to 26.3% of GDP, as reported in the new edition of the account.