Each post takes one new release and sets it against the long record: what the number was before, what the experts expected, and where it sits in Mexico's story with the North. Every figure carries its source and its date.
BTS figures for Aug 2026: 94.3 billion dollars of freight crossed between the US and Mexico, up 26.7% from a year earlier, and trucks carried 73.9 billion of it. On the Canadian border, trucks carried about half.
Read on Rutanamex →US border records count 3.25 million truck crossings into the US from Mexico in 1996 and 7.59 million in 2025, about 2.3 times as many. Over the same years, the count on the Canadian border fell, and the Mexican border passed it in 2017.
Read →INEGI's registered-birth figures for 2025: 1,678,532 births, up 0.4% from 2024 and the third-lowest count since 2016. The rate held at 47.7 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 49.
Read on Rutanamex →At 1960 rates, a woman in Mexico would have had about 6.8 children over her lifetime, almost twice the US figure. By 2024, the World Bank put Mexico at 1.89 and the US at 1.63: a gap of about three children has narrowed to about a quarter.
Read →INEGI's timely estimate for July to September 2026: GDP up 0.9% on the quarter and 3.2% on the year, seasonally adjusted; services up 3.3% and industry 3.1% on the year.
Read on Rutanamex →From 1961 to 1980, Mexico's real GDP grew about 6.7% a year. From 1981 to 2025, the average was about 2%, with four deep falls and the IMF's forecasts missing in both directions.
Read →IMSS registered 22,927,276 jobs at the end of September 2026, 355,594 more than a year earlier; INEGI's ENOE counted 267,000 fewer people at work.
Read on Rutanamex →IMSS counted 22.9 million registered jobs at the end of September 2026, a record. In 2000, the average was 12.4 million insured workers. In between came two large losses, in 2008 and 2009, and in 2020.
Read →At 3.62% in early October 2026, inflation sits within Banxico's 2% to 4% band. From 2000 to 2024, the IMF's year-ahead forecasts for Mexico were too low 17 times and too high five times.
Read →The first nine months of 2026 already add up to about 94% of the record set in 2025. Compared with 1993, the last year before NAFTA, exports are almost thirteen times higher in current dollars, and the share sold to the USA has hardly changed.
Read →INEGI's consumer prices for the first half of October 2026: 3.62% a year, core inflation down to 3.78% and non-core up to 3.08%, with electricity up 18.51% in the fortnight.
Read on Rutanamex →INEGI's measure of domestic value added in export manufacturing reached 44.2% in 2024, the highest since the series began in 2013. What the number means, what is in it, and what it is not.
Read on Connected →INEGI's timely trade figures for September 2026: exports totaled 77,796.6 million dollars, up 37.9%, led by manufactures other than vehicles and by mining.
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