States with the least favorable conditions
On the other hand, in states with fewer opportunities to take advantage of investments by nearshoring There are Zacatecas, the State of Mexico and Oaxaca.
As regards Zacatecasfaces challenges in indicators such as job training, public passenger transport units and the number of industrial wastewater treatment plants.
The IMCO points out that in indicators such as labor income, the proportion of the EAP with higher education and the number of technical vocational schools, Zacatecas was ranked in one of the last 10 positions at the national level. In addition, it had the ninth highest crime prevalence rate in the country.
While the State of MexicoThe results also reflect challenges in all four areas, as the state has the lowest level of higher education institutions in the country and the second lowest availability of renewable water.
Their levels of job training and English proficiency are also lower than those observed at the national level; the state of Mexico is in 27th position in both cases.
And in housing production it was placed in 23rd position nationwide, in 2023 only 0.6 homes were built for every 10,000 inhabitants.
FinallyOaxaca is the other entity at a disadvantagewhere the greatest structural challenges are found in the axes of the labor market and housing. Labor informality in the state is the highest in the entire country; with a level of 81.1%, it exceeds the national level by more than 26 percentage points.
It also has the lowest level of economically active population with higher education, and the level of labor income, which is 7,640 pesos per month, is the second lowest in the country.
And it is the entity that produced the fewest homes per 10,000 inhabitants in 2023: 0.1 were built, and it has the greatest lack of electricity and drainage in homes.
