Income per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in Mexico: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

At MYRIAD, we look at the statistics of human lives to understand the material reality of history. For Mexico, average yearly economic output per person, adjusted for purchasing power in 2017 international dollars, tells a profound story about daily existence. Every data point reflects the actual conditions of food, shelter, labor, and survival across generations. These numbers measure the economic baseline of what was possible for families building their lives in a changing nation over three centuries.

The historical arc of this metric reveals a steady, compounding transformation. In the 1800s estimate it was 1,094, creeping upward decade by decade through the 1810s estimate 1,177, the 1820s estimate 1,259, the 1830s estimate 1,342, the 1840s estimate 1,424, the 1850s estimate 1,507, the 1860s estimate 1,589, the 1870s estimate 1,672, the 1880s estimate 1,754, and the 1890s estimate 1,837. By 1900 it was 1,919 intl-$, setting the stage for subsequent decades like the 1950s at 4,656 and the 1990s at 12,183. In the 2020s, income per person (gdp per capita, ppp) in Mexico stands at 18,400 intl-$ — ranking #63 of 157 countries, with future projections extending toward the 2100s projection 56,286.

If you were born in Mexico across these different eras, your economic horizon shifted dramatically from the baseline of the 1900 value of 1,919 intl-$ to the modern realities of the 2020s at 18,400 intl-$. This long-term trajectory outlines the changing scale of resources available to each person navigating their span of years in the country.

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