About Why Mexico
What this is
A free reference on how Mexico and its northern neighbours got to where they are: a dated timeline, the long series of what moves between them, the record of what the experts expected, and a shelf of the reports worth reading. It is meant to be cited, chart by chart and event by event.
Who keeps it
J Rutan Flores, an economist and civil engineer who has worked in Mexico since 1999, and his team: the people behind the Rutanamex hub and The Economics of Mexico series. The site belongs to Connected Continents Press LLC, Wyoming, USA. For this week's numbers, visit rutanamex.com; for the books, connectedcontinentspress.com.
How numbers are handled
- Every figure carries its source, the edition or vintage, and the date we read it.
- The record pages run to the last complete year. Blog posts carry the newest release, each dated and with its source; live numbers belong on our sister site.
- Where a series or a vintage could not be found, the page says so; nothing is filled in from memory.
- We never republish a report. We link to it, describe it in our own words, and chart the numbers its publisher released.
- Forecast errors, counts, averages, shares and unit conversions are our own calculations, and the charts say so where they transform a series.
- None of the institutions cited (the IMF, the World Bank, the United Nations, the U.S. Census Bureau, Banco de México, INEGI, the OECD) endorses or reviews this site.
- Data terms: IMF data are used with attribution under the IMF's terms for data; World Bank data under CC BY 4.0; UN DESA data under CC BY 3.0 IGO; U.S. Census Bureau data are in the public domain.
- IMF · CC BY 4.0 · CC BY 3.0 IGO
Independence
No agency, company or government pays for anything on this site, and it carries no advertising.
Write to us
Corrections are welcome and are dated when made: info@why-mexico.com.