Informal workers lack benefits such as Infonavit or access to social security, which also represents a barrier to improving their quality of life and even reaching a pension when they are of retirement age.
Below we present how the informal economy has grown in Mexico in recent years without, to date, there being public policies focused on addressing this growing problem.
This is the power of the informal economy in Mexico
The number of Mexicans aged 15 and over of working age maintains its upward trend.
The growth of the informal economy in Mexico has been strong over the years, to such an extent that almost a quarter of GDP comes from informality.
Seen another way, more than half of Mexicans have an occupation thanks to the informal economy.
The informal economy operates mainly in the service sector, with retail trade having the largest participation.
