Mexico‘s competitiveness in 2025 advanced from 56th to 55th place in the World Competitiveness Ranking.

This ranking measures 69 economies around the world and is ranked using a methodology of the Institute for Management Development (IMD).

Mexico’s Competitiveness in 2025

Mexico has a population of 130 million inhabitants and a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 1.93 trillion dollars. Its GDP per capita, measured by Purchasing Power Parity, is 25,455 dollars. 

Below are the positions that Mexico occupied in the last few years, according to the IMD ranking, based in Switzerland:

• 2021: 55.
• 2022: 55. 
• 2023: 56.
• 2024: 56.
• 2025: 55.

In addition, always with data from 2024, consumer inflation in Mexico was 4.7% and the unemployment rate was 2.6 percent.

A couple of other facts: the country’s current account balance represented -0.31% of GDP and the labor force totaled 61 million people.

Mexican economy

The ranking takes into account four main pillars, in which Mexico had the following positions in recent years:

Economic performance:

• 2021: 49.
• 2022: 27.
• 2023: 30.
• 2024: 25.
• 2025: 39.

Government efficiency: 

• 2021: 59.
• 2022: 60.
• 2023: 60.
• 2024: 60.
• 2025: 62.

Business efficiency: 

• 2021: 47.
• 2022: 47.
• 2023: 51.
• 2024: 53.
• 2025: 54.

Infrastructure:

• 2021: 58.
• 2022: 58.
• 2023: 59.
• 2024: 62.
• 2025: 61.

This edition ranks 69 global economies. The score is based on executive perceptions and statistical data, allowing quantitative and qualitative aspects to be measured separately.

The data comes from international, national, private and IMD sources, and makes up two-thirds of the total ranking.

According to the IMD report, North America had an average score of 31. Excluding the United States, which dropped to 13th place, all other economies in the region experienced gains. 

Canada (11th), Puerto Rico (44th) and Mexico (55th) moved up in the rankings. These trends demonstrate that non-hegemonic economies can define their competitive trajectory relatively independently of the major players in the same region.