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INEGI: official statistics for Mexico

INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía) is Mexico's autonomous national statistics and geography agency. It runs the population census and Intercensal Survey, publishes the INPC consumer price index, GDP, the ENOE employment survey, the ENIGH household income survey and, since 2025, the official multidimensional poverty measure. It also runs crime victimisation surveys and vital statistics on births and deaths.

What it publishes

• The Population and Housing Census (2020) and the Intercensal Survey (2025).
• The national consumer price index (INPC), fortnightly and monthly.
• Quarterly GDP, a timely GDP estimate and the monthly IGAE economic activity index.
• ENOE: unemployment, informality and underemployment, monthly and quarterly.
• ENIGH household income and spending, and multidimensional poverty, every two years.
• Registered births and deaths, homicide statistics and the ENVIPE victimisation survey.

Key datasets

• INPC
  Consumer price index, core and non-core inflation.
  Updated: Fortnightly and monthly
• GDP
  Quarterly GDP by activity.
  Updated: Quarterly
• ENOE
  Employment, unemployment and informality.
  Updated: Monthly and quarterly
• ENIGH 2024
  Household income and spending; basis for poverty measurement.
  Updated: Every two years
• Intercensal Survey 2025
  Population and housing between censuses.
  Updated: Every ten years, between censuses
• ENVIPE 2026
  Crime victimisation and perceptions of security.
  Updated: Annual

APIs and downloads

• Banco de Indicadores
  Searchable bank of economic and social indicators.
• Indicators API
  JSON or XML API to the indicators bank; needs a free token.
• Open data
  Microdata and bulk files from surveys and censuses.

When it publishes

INEGI publishes a yearly calendar of releases. Each press release gives the date of the next one: for example, monthly INPC inflation for October 2026 is due on 9 November 2026, ENOE on 22 October 2026 and third-quarter GDP on 23 November 2026. Some INEGI pages return a 'page not found' message with a normal status, so check that a link opens the page you expect.

How to use it to check a claim

1. For inflation, say whether a figure is fortnightly or monthly, annual or monthly change, and headline or core.
2. For GDP, say whether growth is quarter on quarter (seasonally adjusted) or year on year, and whether it is the timely estimate.
3. Read unemployment alongside informality and underemployment from the same ENOE release.
4. For poverty, say multidimensional or income poverty, and the year; it is measured every two years.
5. The Intercensal Survey is a sample survey, not a full census.

Common mistakes

• Comparing poverty measured by INEGI from 2024 with older CONEVAL series without checking the method notes.
• Treating ENIGH household income as an individual salary.
• Comparing INEGI homicides from death certificates with police-recorded crime from the SESNSP.

Is INEGI independent?

INEGI is an autonomous body under the constitution and coordinates the national system of statistical and geographic information.

Who measures poverty in Mexico?

Since a constitutional reform in 2024–2025, INEGI measures multidimensional poverty; its first measurement, for 2024, was published on 13 August 2025. CONEVAL produced earlier measurements.

Questions answered using this source

• What is the population of Mexico?
• What is the inflation rate in Mexico?
• What is Mexico's GDP growth rate?
• What is the unemployment rate in Mexico?
• What is the poverty rate in Mexico?
• What is the average household income in Mexico?
• What is the crime rate in Mexico?
• What is the birth rate in Mexico?

Links checked 14 October 2026. This page describes what the source publishes and gives no verdict on any claim.