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Mexico 2026

Mexique

Mexico (México) enters 2027 with 130.9 million residents, a median age of 32 and a multidimensional poverty rate that fell to 29.6% in 2024. Its systèmes are tied to those of its northern neighbour.

Constats
12
each with its status and source
Sectors with findings
5 of 6
Infrastructure not assessed
Risk objects
4
order carries no rank
Sources
47
Evidence close 30 September 2026

01 · Readings

Mexico in six readings.

Six readings that frame the Mexico baseline, and the eight questions this edition answers, each with its status and source.

  • 130.9millionresidents, 2025 [1]
  • 32annéesmedian age, 2025 [1]
  • 29.6%multidimensional poverty, 2024 [2]
  • 75.7%dwellings with internet, 2025 [1]
  • 97.6%dwellings with piped water, 2025 [1]
  • 32entitiesfederal entities and 2,478 municipalities [1]

02 · Sectors

Six sectors, one hexagon.

Water first, then Energy, Infrastructure, Food, Health and Biodiversity. Each count is the findings of this edition in that sector: coverage of the evidence, never a score. Infrastructure is not assessed: the edition holds no Infrastructure finding and its coupling matrix does not assess it.

  1. WATEau2 findings

    0.88 million acre-feet Rio Grande water delivered in the 2020–2025 cycle, against 1.75 owed, 2025. Déclaré

    Water stress on 64% of the area; 114 overexploited aquifers; shared rivers with the United States.

  2. ENEÉnergie2 findings

    26% Clean share of electricity generation, 2025. Déclaré

    Dry gas supplies 64.2% of electricity; 5,010 PJ of refined products imported; clean share 26%.

  3. INFinfrastructuresnot assessed

    Valley of Mexico subsidence up to 50 cm a year; 2017 séisme damage in several states.

  4. FOOAlimentation1 finding

    Not bound USDA · blocker: report not retrievable Maize imports, latest marketing year, n/a. Not bound

    Constitutional ban on planting modified maize; livestock trade disrupted by screwworm; import volumes not bound.

  5. HLTSanté1 finding

    34.2% Population with no access to health services (deprivation), 2024. Déclaré

    Poverty at 29.6%; 34.2% without access to health services; heat season deaths recorded by state.

  6. BIOBiodiversité1 finding

    94 of 232 Federal protected areas without a management programme, 2026. Déclaré

    232 federal protected areas, 98 million hectares protected; 94 areas without a management programme.

Outside the six sectors: Climate forcing 2, Finance 1, SEI 1, Systemic 1.

03 · Hazard exposure

The hazards this edition reads.

The edition’s own risk objects, in its order, each read across driver, exposure, vulnerability, capacity, cascade and horizon. The hexagon marks the sectors the cascade reaches; the domain beside each is an editorial reading of its hazard words.

  • RSK-MEX-WAT-001

    Drought, aquifer overdraft and shared-river shortfall

    DéclaréEQL 4

    Facteur
    multi-year drought; overdraft; shared-river accounts
    Exposition
    64% of the area; about 70% of people [3]
    Vulnérabilité
    114 overexploited aquifers [13]; Valley of Mexico subsidence [11]
    Capacité
    drought monitor in routine use [15]; storage series not bound
    Cascade
    WAT → FOO, ENE, HLT, TRD
    Horizon
    1–5 years

    Systèmes d'eau

  • RSK-MEX-ENE-002

    Gas and fuel supply disruption

    DéclaréEQL 4

    Facteur
    cross-border supply shock or price spike
    Exposition
    power, transport, industry
    Vulnérabilité
    dry gas 64.2% of power; 5,010 PJ of products imported [4]
    Capacité
    storage depth not bound; clean share 26% [5]
    Cascade
    TRD → ENE → FOO, WAT, HLT
    Horizon
    1–5 years

    No domain reading

  • RSK-MEX-CLI-003

    Tropical cyclones and river flooding

    DéclaréEQL 4

    Facteur
    rapidly intensifying Pacific and Atlantic storms
    Exposition
    coastal cities; Gulf-slope valleys
    Vulnérabilité
    housing and roads on slopes and floodplains
    Capacité
    parametric cover US$420 million [8]
    Cascade
    CLI → INF → ENE, HLT, FIN
    Horizon
    annuel

    Atmosphère et météoSystèmes d'eau

  • RSK-MEX-SEI-004

    Great earthquake and subsidence in the Valley of Mexico

    DéclaréEQL 4

    Facteur
    intraslab or subduction séisme; ground sinking
    Exposition
    Mexico City and central states
    Vulnérabilité
    older buildings; soft lake-bed soils
    Capacité
    seismological service in routine use [9]; alert capability not bound
    Cascade
    SEI → INF, WAT, HLT, FIN
    Horizon
    30 years

    Terre solide

Scenario · SCN-MEX-DRT-01

Multi-year drought on a gas-reliant grid

Under this scenario, results describe a conditional season under stated assumptions. It is not a forecast, and no intervention described here has been carried out.

4 of 12 findings name a hazard in their text. Show them

  1. 1CLI → WATdrought lowers storage and river flows
  2. 2WAT → FOOirrigation and rain-fed yields fall; crop loss rises
  3. 3WAT → ENEhydropower falls and cooling water is constrained
  4. 4CLI → ENEheat raises power demand on a gas-reliant grid
  5. 5WAT → TRDshared-river shortfalls enter trade negotiation
  6. 6HLT → populationwater and heat stress fall on the 34.2% without health access

04 · Couplings

How the sectors carry risk into each other.

The Mexico matrix types the twenty couplings between the five core systèmes. Strengths are Nexus estimates from the cited evidence and analogue events; they set the starting graph that the Q1 2027 Foundry cut will test.

Coupling matrix, from row to column
DeWATENEFOOHLTBIO
WAT·ModéréeStrongModéréeStrong
ENEStrong·StrongStrongModérée
FOOStrongWeak·StrongStrong
HLTWeakWeakModérée·Weak
BIOStrongModéréeStrongModérée·

Water: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Energy: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Food: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Health: 4 couplings out, 4 in; Biodiversity: 4 couplings out, 4 in. Infrastructure is not in the coupling matrix: none of the edition matrices types it, so it carries no value.

Cascade paths, in the edition’s order

  1. CLI → WAT → FOOdrought cuts irrigation and rain-fed yield; 2.83 million hectares of crops were lost to drought in 2018–2023Déclaré
  2. TRD → ENE → allimported gas and fuels carry price and supply shocks into power, transport and industryDéclaré
  3. CLI → INFa category 5 landfall and heavy rain cut roads, power and homesDéclaré
  4. SEI → INFan intraslab séisme damages buildings in several statesDéclaré
  5. WAT → TRDshortfalls in shared-river deliveries enter trade and tariff talksDéclaré

05 · Findings

Every finding of Mexico.

Search, filter by sector, system or status, and sort. The address bar keeps the view, so a filtered list can be shared. Every row opens the finding at its source.

All 12 findings

Findings of Mexico
IDÉditionSector or systemStatutStatement
ENE-001MexiqueENE Énergie DéclaréIn 2024 Mexico imported 5,010 PJ of refined energy products, and dry gas supplied 64.2% of electricity generation.
ENE-002MexiqueENE Énergie DéclaréClean sources supplied 26% of Mexico’s electricity in 2025, with solar and wind at 13%; the NDC targets 38.5% clean generation in 2030.
CLI-003MexiqueCLI Climate forcing DéclaréMexico’s 2035 contribution sets net emissions of 364–404 MtCO₂e unconditionally and 332–363 conditionally; the 2030 limit is 644 MtCO₂e gross.
WAT-004MexiqueWAT Eau DéclaréThe 2020–2025 Rio Grande cycle closed with 0.88 million acre-feet delivered against 1.75 owed; Mexico committed in February 2026 to annual deliveries of at least 0.35.
WAT-005MexiqueWAT Eau DéclaréWater stress affected 64% of the continental area in 2025, and 114 aquifers were overexploited in 2023.
SEI-006MexiqueSEI SEI DéclaréParts of Mexico City sink by up to 50 cm a year, and a magnitude 7.1 séisme on 19 September 2017 triggered emergency declarations in 112 municipalities of Puebla.
CLI-007MexiqueCLI Climate forcing DéclaréOuragan Otis made landfall at Acapulco as a category 5 storm in October 2023; heavy rain in October 2025 left 72 dead and 48 missing in four states.
FOO-008MexiqueFOO Alimentation DéclaréA constitutional amendment of March 2025 bars planting genetically modified maize, and the United States suspended Mexican live-cattle imports from 11 May 2025 over screwworm.
HLT-009MexiqueHLT Santé DéclaréIn 2024, 14.4% of the population lacked access to nutritious food and 34.2% lacked access to health services.
BIO-010MexiqueBIO Biodiversité DéclaréOf 232 federal protected areas, 94 had no management programme in 2026, and spending was 16.2 pesos per protected hectare.
FIN-011MexiqueFIN Finance DéclaréThe government holds US$420 million of World Bank parametric catastrophe bonds for séisme and Atlantic storms, maturing in April 2028.
SYS-012MexiqueSYS Systémique Expert inputThe leading compound pathway for 2027 testing is a multi-year drought that cuts irrigation and hydropower while heat lifts power demand on a gas-reliant grid.

06 · Editions and calendar

The desks’ editions for Mexico.

The desks’ editions for Mexico
BureauÉditionÉtatIdentifiant
GCRI Systems EvidenceMexico 2026Drafted, in stewardship reviewNR-COUNTRY-MEX-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
GRF Public DeliberationPublic Deliberation: Mexico 2026En préparation
GRA Capital ReadinessCapital Readiness: Mexico 2026En préparation
Standards ProgressNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Academy CapabilityNo edition in the 2026 Baseline cycleNot in this cycle
Index MeasurementMeasurement: Mexico 2026En préparation

Calendar · 2026 Baseline

  1. 01Call opensset by the editor
  2. 02Contribution closeset by the editor
  3. 03Clôture des preuves30 September 2026
  4. 04Desk review and releaseset by the editor
  5. 05Collection compilationset by the editor
  6. 06Collection releaseset by the editor
  7. 07Rectificatifsafter release, as needed

Evidence cut NQ-MEX-2026-Q0-1. Next cycles: Q1 2027, Q2 2027, Q3 2027, Q4 2027; their dates are set by the editor.

07 · Take part

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Journal des corrections

Versions and corrections
VersionDateÉtatVariationNotice
NR-COUNTRY-MEX-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0October 2026DRAFTBaseline Edition 2026, inaugural annual edition,aucun
Data gaps3What the repository does not hold yet, and the source proposed for each
Data gaps and proposed sources
ÉcartShown here asProposed source
Exposure values per hazard (people, assets, hectares)the edition’s own risk objects, without valuesthe Index country profile once the Index releases values, risksindex.com/mex/
The NHS-1 hazard types and their assignment to this edition’s risk objectsan editorial reading of the hazard wordsthe NHS-1 type assignment through the Registry
Infrastructure in the coupling matrixInfrastructure marked not assessedan Infrastructure row and column in the edition matrix at the next cut
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