📊 Record Low Unemployment

Mexican labor is a force to be reckoned with.

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Labor 💪

After years of struggling to make ends meet with a mix of formal and informal jobs, you're reluctantly considering migrating to the US to seek better opportunities. Suddenly, you hear some good news: Samsung is opening a manufacturing plant in your hometown of Tijuana. With a baby on the way, this is just the stability your family needs, so you show up immediately to apply for a job.

A similar story has probably happened for millions of Mexicans in the past two decades. From 2005 to 2023, the country's economically active population went up a whopping 42% — from 43M to 61M.