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Mexico 2026

मैक्सिको

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 प्रणालियाँ are tied to those of its northern neighbour.

निष्कर्ष
12
each with its status and source
Sectors with findings
5 of 6
Infrastructure not assessed
Risk objects
4
order carries no rank
स्रोत
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]
  • 32वर्षmedian 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. WATजल2 findings

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

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

  2. ENEऊर्जा2 findings

    26% Clean share of electricity generation, 2025. रिपोर्ट किया गया

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

  3. INFअवसंरचनाnot assessed

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

  4. FOOखाद्य1 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. HLTस्वास्थ्य1 finding

    34.2% Population with no access to health services (deprivation), 2024. रिपोर्ट किया गया

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

  6. BIOजैव विविधता1 finding

    94 of 232 Federal protected areas without a management programme, 2026. रिपोर्ट किया गया

    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

    रिपोर्ट किया गयाEQL 4

    चालक
    multi-year drought; overdraft; shared-river accounts
    जोखिम-अनावरण
    64% of the area; about 70% of people [3]
    भेद्यता
    114 overexploited aquifers [13]; Valley of Mexico subsidence [11]
    क्षमता
    drought monitor in routine use [15]; storage series not bound
    कैस्केड
    WAT → FOO, ENE, HLT, TRD
    क्षितिज
    1–5 years

    जल प्रणालियाँ

  • RSK-MEX-ENE-002

    Gas and fuel supply disruption

    रिपोर्ट किया गयाEQL 4

    चालक
    cross-border supply shock or price spike
    जोखिम-अनावरण
    power, transport, industry
    भेद्यता
    dry gas 64.2% of power; 5,010 PJ of products imported [4]
    क्षमता
    storage depth not bound; clean share 26% [5]
    कैस्केड
    TRD → ENE → FOO, WAT, HLT
    क्षितिज
    1–5 years

    No domain reading

  • RSK-MEX-CLI-003

    Tropical cyclones and river flooding

    रिपोर्ट किया गयाEQL 4

    चालक
    rapidly intensifying Pacific and Atlantic storms
    जोखिम-अनावरण
    coastal cities; Gulf-slope valleys
    भेद्यता
    housing and roads on slopes and floodplains
    क्षमता
    parametric cover US$420 million [8]
    कैस्केड
    CLI → INF → ENE, HLT, FIN
    क्षितिज
    वार्षिक

    वायुमंडल और मौसमजल प्रणालियाँ

  • RSK-MEX-SEI-004

    Great earthquake and subsidence in the Valley of Mexico

    रिपोर्ट किया गयाEQL 4

    चालक
    intraslab or subduction भूकंप; ground sinking
    जोखिम-अनावरण
    Mexico City and central states
    भेद्यता
    older buildings; soft lake-bed soils
    क्षमता
    seismological service in routine use [9]; alert capability not bound
    कैस्केड
    SEI → INF, WAT, HLT, FIN
    क्षितिज
    30 years

    ठोस पृथ्वी

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 प्रणालियाँ. 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
सेWATENEFOOHLTBIO
WAT·मध्यमStrongमध्यमStrong
ENEStrong·StrongStrongमध्यम
FOOStrongWeak·StrongStrong
HLTWeakWeakमध्यम·Weak
BIOStrongमध्यमStrongमध्यम·

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 2018–2023रिपोर्ट किया गया
  2. TRD → ENE → allimported gas and fuels carry price and supply shocks into power, transport and industryरिपोर्ट किया गया
  3. CLI → INFa category 5 landfall and heavy rain cut roads, power and homesरिपोर्ट किया गया
  4. SEI → INFan intraslab भूकंप damages buildings in several statesरिपोर्ट किया गया
  5. WAT → TRDshortfalls in shared-river deliveries enter trade and tariff talksरिपोर्ट किया गया

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
IDसंस्करणSector or systemस्थितिStatement
ENE-001मैक्सिकोENE ऊर्जा रिपोर्ट किया गयाIn 2024 Mexico imported 5,010 PJ of refined energy products, and dry gas supplied 64.2% of electricity generation.
ENE-002मैक्सिकोENE ऊर्जा रिपोर्ट किया गयाClean 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-003मैक्सिकोCLI Climate forcing रिपोर्ट किया गयाMexico’s 2035 contribution sets net emissions of 364–404 MtCO₂e unconditionally and 332–363 conditionally; the 2030 limit is 644 MtCO₂e gross.
WAT-004मैक्सिकोWAT जल रिपोर्ट किया गयाThe 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-005मैक्सिकोWAT जल रिपोर्ट किया गयाWater stress affected 64% of the continental area in 2025, and 114 aquifers were overexploited in 2023.
SEI-006मैक्सिकोSEI SEI रिपोर्ट किया गयाParts of Mexico City sink by up to 50 cm a year, and a magnitude 7.1 भूकंप on 19 September 2017 triggered emergency declarations in 112 municipalities of Puebla.
CLI-007मैक्सिकोCLI Climate forcing रिपोर्ट किया गयातूफ़ान (हरिकेन) 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-008मैक्सिकोFOO खाद्य रिपोर्ट किया गयाA 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-009मैक्सिकोHLT स्वास्थ्य रिपोर्ट किया गयाIn 2024, 14.4% of the population lacked access to nutritious food and 34.2% lacked access to health services.
BIO-010मैक्सिकोBIO जैव विविधता रिपोर्ट किया गयाOf 232 federal protected areas, 94 had no management programme in 2026, and spending was 16.2 pesos per protected hectare.
FIN-011मैक्सिकोFIN वित्त रिपोर्ट किया गयाThe government holds US$420 million of World Bank parametric catastrophe bonds for भूकंप and Atlantic storms, maturing in April 2028.
SYS-012मैक्सिकोSYS प्रणालीगत 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
डेस्कसंस्करणस्थितिपहचानकर्ता
GCRI Systems EvidenceMexico 2026Drafted, in stewardship reviewNR-COUNTRY-MEX-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0
GRF Public DeliberationPublic Deliberation: Mexico 2026तैयारी में
GRA Capital ReadinessCapital Readiness: Mexico 2026तैयारी में
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 2026तैयारी में

Calendar · 2026 Baseline

  1. 01Call opensset by the editor
  2. 02Contribution closeset by the editor
  3. 03साक्ष्य समापन30 September 2026
  4. 04Desk review and releaseset by the editor
  5. 05Collection compilationset by the editor
  6. 06Collection releaseset by the editor
  7. 07सुधारafter 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

Read it, improve it, cite it.

सुधार लॉग

Versions and corrections
संस्करणतिथिस्थितिबदलावसूचना
NR-COUNTRY-MEX-2026-BASELINE-v1.0.0October 2026DRAFTBaseline Edition 2026, inaugural annual edition,कोई नहीं
Data gaps3What the repository does not hold yet, and the source proposed for each
Data gaps and proposed sources
अंतरालShown 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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