In August 2025, Mexico's report on multidimensional poverty was published by INEGI for the first time. This report is based on the National Survey of Income and Expenditure of Households (ENIGH) 2024.  

• Citation: INEGI (2025). Pobreza Multidimensional 2024, Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI).

Mexico's multidimensional poverty measure was made official in 2010 and has been updated regularly ever since. The National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) was responsible for publishing these results until 2024. The Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) now publishes multidimensional poverty results biennially.

CONEVAL information on multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico

• CONEVAL (2010), Pobreza 2010
• CONEVAL (2012), Pobreza 2012
• CONEVAL (2014), Pobreza 2014
• CONEVAL (2016), Pobreza 2016
• CONEVAL (2018), Pobreza 2018
• CONEVAL (2020), Pobreza 2020

The 2022 results for multidimensional poverty were based on the Census, Encuesta Nacional de Ingresos y Gastos de los Hogares (ENIGH) 2022.

• CONEVAL (2022). DOCUMENTO DE ANÁLISIS SOBRE LA MEDICIÓN MULTIDIMENSIONAL DE LA POBREZA, 2022
• Coneval website: 2022 poverty results.

Mexico has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Multidimensional Poverty Peer Network since the MPPN was established in 2013. 

Poverty Cut-Off: A person is considered poor if they are income poor (their income is insufficient to acquire the goods and services required to meet their needs) and they do not have guaranteed access to any of the social indicators related to education, health, social security, housing, and food. 

The annual global MPI produced by the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative in partnership with the Human Development Report Office of the United Nations Development Programme is an internationally comparable index of acute multidimensional poverty. OPHI publishes Country Briefings summarising poverty statistics of the global MPI for each country.     

Visit the most recent Global MPI Country Briefing for Mexico based on ENSANUT year 2022.   

Official institution responsible for statistics  

• Currently, INEGI
• Formerly, Council for the Evaluation of Social Policy (Coneval) 

Additional materials

• Consejo Nacional de Evaluación de la Política de Desarrollo Social. Metodología para la medición multidimensional de la pobreza en México (tercera edición). Ciudad de México: CONEVAL, 2019 

Events  

• 24 September 2013 | Intervention by Gonzalo Hernandez, Executive Director of the National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL) Mexico at UNGA 68 Side Event
• 25 September 2014 | Intervention by H.E. José Antonio Meade Kuribreña, Secretary of Foreign Affairs at UNGA 69 Side Event
• 25 September 2014 | Intervention by Gonzalo Hernández Licona, Executive Secretary of Mexico's National Evaluation Council (CONEVAL) at UNGA 69 Side Event
• 27 September 2015 | Intervention by Gabriel Rivera Conde, Chief Strategic Projects, Office of the President of Mexico at UNGA 70 Side Event
• 7 March 2016 | Intervention by Julio Santaella, President, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) at UNSC 47 Side Event
• 22 September 2016 | Intervention by Dr. Noel Gonzalez Segura, General Director at the Mexican Agency for International Cooperation and Development (AMEXCID) at UNGA 71 Side Event
• 19 September 2017 | Intervention by H.E. Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico at UNGA 72 Side Event
• 25 September 2018 | Intervention by H.E. Oliver Arroyo, General Director for Evaluation and Monitoring of Social Programs at UNGA 73 Side Event
• 5 March 2019 | Intervention by Julio Santaella, President, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) at UNSC 50 Side Event
• 25 February 2021 | Intervention by Julio Santaella, President, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) at UNSC 52 Side Event
• 23 September 2021 | Intervention by José Nabor Cruz Marcelo, Executive Secretary of the National Council of Evaluation of Social Development Policy CONEVALat UNGA 76 Side Event
• 15 February 2022 | Intervention by Graciela Márquez Colin, President, National Institute of Statistics, Geography and Informatics at UNSC 53 Side Event
• 23 September 2022 | Intervention by H.E. Alejandro Murat Hinojosa, President CONAGO, Governor of Oaxaca at UNGA 77 Side Event
• 28 February 2023 | Ariadna Diaz, Presidency Advisors’ Coordinator, National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) at UNSC 54 Side Event 

Dimensions articles  

• 2016 | Coneval: Institution-building for multidimensional poverty measurement in Mexico | MPPN
• 2019 | Child and Adolescent Poverty and Social Rights in Mexico: A Multidimensional Poverty Measurement Approach | MPPN
• 2019 | The Use of the Multidimensional Poverty Measure in Oaxaca | MPPNHow Has Poverty Reduction Been Achieved in Oaxaca, Mexico? | MPPN
• 2020 | Measuring Poverty in the Indigenous Population of Mexico | MPPN
• 2022 | Oaxaca: the largest decline of multidimensional poverty and extreme poverty in a decade | MPPN
• 2022 | Multidimensional poverty in Mexico in the context of the COVID-19 health emergency | MPPN
• 2023 | Multidimensional poverty in small areas: Considerations on the measurement of poverty in the municipalities of Mexico and its official character | MPPN 

Press Releases/News  

• 31 May 2013 | Colombia and Mexico guide new network for governments to tackle poverty
• 14 August 2025 | En 2024, en México 38.5 millones de personas se encontraban en situación de pobreza multidimensional; 7.0 millones estaban en situación de pobreza extrema 

Voluntary National Reviews

• 2018 | Voluntary National Review for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development p. 119
• 2024 | Mexico Voluntary National Review, pp. 21, 25