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Mexico · MXN · share price index, latest 2026-09

The city is a label: every national figure here is Mexico's own, and the cost of living is one survey's answer for one adult, with its method and its year.

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Poverty line

The least a household needs to spend to avoid being counted as poor.

$4,951.66a month · 2026

€229at the ECB's 2025 average

Monthly urban income poverty line per person, September 2026.

  • Housing: inside the total, not shown on its own: Housing is inside non-food. The full 2018 basket put housing at 9.9%; those shares are not applied to today's total
  • INEGI, 2026

What the figure is made of

Food · $2,590.61 · 52.3%All 2 parts
  • Food$2,590.61 52.3%
  • Non-food, including housing · including housing$2,361.05 47.7%

How it has changed since 2021

Mexico City's poverty line rose 25% from 2021 to 2025, in step with prices, while what a person in Mexico spends on average rose 31%.

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Each line is 100 in 2021. The September urban line for 2021 to 2026, on the 2016-basket method. The September 2020 bulletin is left out: the 2021 bulletin gives a different 2020 value than it published at the time.

The whole record

Stock market

At 147 in September 2026, 47% above its 2015 level, in pesos and before inflation. The chart below shows what the peso was worth in euros.

MXN per euro

20.6 pesos to the euro in October 2026, still under the April 2020 record of 26.4. A rising line is a weaker peso.

House prices, after inflation

55% above 2010, and at its peak.

The economy

Inflation, one year
3.8%
2025
Average spending per person
€719 a month
2025
Income per person, adjusted for local prices
$25,070
2025
Unemployment
2.7%
2025
Life expectancy
75.3 years
2024

What the economy is made of

What the country produces, which is what most people there work in; not which companies move the stock market.

  • Services 58.9%
  • Industry 30.6% (manufacturing 20%)
  • Agriculture 3.9%
  • Taxes less subsidies 6.6%
How this is calculated
Poverty line
Urban income poverty line is Mexico's own method: The cost of the food basket plus the non-food basket for an urban resident. It is not interchangeable with another country's survey, which is why no other city's figure sits beside it.
Prices
No carry-forward. The survey (2026) is not older than Mexico's latest CPI year (2025), so nothing is carried: a year of inflation not yet published is not guessed. World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average.
In euros
At 21.670477 MXN per euro, the ECB's 2025 average, the survey's figure is €228.50. ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates.
Change since 2021
Each series divided by its 2021 value. Prices: World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL, annual average. Spending: World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CN ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, current local currency, household final consumption divided by population, per month. The September urban line for 2021 to 2026, on the 2016-basket method. The September 2020 bulletin is left out: the 2021 bulletin gives a different 2020 value than it published at the time.
Stock market
OECD via FRED SPASTT01MXM661N, monthly, 2015 = 100, in MXN and before inflation, on a logarithmic scale: equal distance is equal percentage change. Latest 2026-09.
MXN per euro
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates, monthly average from 1999, on a logarithmic scale. A rising line is a weaker MXN. Latest 2026-10.
House prices, after inflation
BIS via FRED QMXR628BIS, quarterly, 2010 = 100. Indexed to Mexico's own 2010, so only the direction compares across countries, never the level. Latest 2026-Q1.
Sources

INEGI bulletin 624/26 · retrieved 14 Oct 2026

World Bank NE.CON.PRVT.CD ÷ SP.POP.TOTL, ECB annual average · World Bank NY.GNP.PCAP.PP.CD · World Bank SL.UEM.TOTL.ZS · World Bank SP.DYN.LE00.IN · World Bank FP.CPI.TOTL.ZG · World Bank NV.AGR.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.SRV.TOTL.ZS · World Bank NV.IND.MANF.ZS · derived: 100 less agriculture, industry and services. Taxes less subsidies is 100 less the three sectors.