Overview
- CEEY reports that 65.7% of households that fell into labor poverty remained there a year later, equal to about 7.8 million of 11.9 million households.
- ¿Cómo Vamos México says 42.3 million people ended 2025 in labor poverty, with the highest shares in Chiapas, Oaxaca and Guerrero and the lowest in Baja California Sur (14.2%) and Colima (17.3%).
- Labor informality reached 55% at the end of 2025, with higher rates for women (55.8%) than for men (54.4%), according to ¿Cómo Vamos México.
- Women are disproportionately affected, including about 1.95 million of the 2.40 million people who want to work but are unavailable, roughly four times the number of men.
- Trajectories diverge by state: seven recorded annual increases in labor poverty (Mexico City, Coahuila, Durango, San Luis Potosí, Michoacán, Campeche, Baja California Sur), while persistence ranges from 85% in Guerrero and 73% in Oaxaca to under 60% in Baja California Sur, Quintana Roo, Mexico City, Campeche, Baja California, Aguascalientes and Tabasco.