Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Mexico
Mexico: Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day was 84.4% in 2024. ▼ Falling
Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day in Mexico, 1984–2024
Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data. Measured in %.
Analysis
Mexico recorded 84.4% for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in 2024. That is the lowest value across all 20 years on record.
That represents a change of down 3.7% on the previous year and down 7.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Mexico peaked at 95.0% in 1996 and was at its lowest, 84.4%, in 2024.
That places Mexico 68th out of 120 countries with data for 2024, putting it in the middle of the range.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 20 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 94.7% | 94.7% | 94.7% | 2 |
| 1990s | 93.2% | 91.5% | 95.0% | 4 |
| 2000s | 91.6% | 90.3% | 92.4% | 6 |
| 2010s | 90.5% | 89.5% | 91.7% | 5 |
| 2020s | 87.5% | 84.4% | 90.3% | 3 |
Countries ranked near Mexico
More poverty & inequality data for Mexico
- Number of income/consumption surveys in the past decade available via the World Bank 5 surveys (2025)
- Fertility rate vs. share living in extreme poverty 1.91 live births per woman (2023)
- Cereal yield vs. share in extreme poverty 4,262 kg per hectare (2023)
- Tax revenue as share of GDP vs. income inequality 14.3% (2023)
- Gender Inequality Index 0.358 (2023)
- Share of government consumption in GDP vs. share of population living in extreme poverty 17.2% (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in women 0.106 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient by sex 0.106 (2023)
- Lifespan inequality: Gini coefficient in men 0.1456 (2023)
- Income inequality: Atkinson index 0.2842 (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Mexico?
- Poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day in Mexico was 84.4% in 2024, according to World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Mexico?
- The highest recorded value was 95.0% in 1996.
- What is the lowest poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day recorded in Mexico?
- The lowest recorded value was 84.4% in 2024.
- How does Mexico rank for poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day?
- Mexico ranks 68th out of 120 countries with data for 2024.
- Is poverty: share of population living on less than $30 a day rising or falling in Mexico?
- Over the last ten years it is down 7.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Mexico data come from?
- The figures come from World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (2026) – with major processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Poverty: Share of population living on less than $30 a day. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Percentage of population living in households with an income or consumption below $30 per day.