Rise in the number of Mexicans choosing to emigrate

Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography has reported an increase in the number of people leaving the country for the quarter of the year ending in June. The figures show a population loss of 27.6 people for every 10,000 living in the country.

The figure, which is the highest it has been since 2008, is calculated by working out the difference between the number of people coming into the country and the number leaving. For the three month period the INEGI found that 14.3 people per 10,000 were coming into the country from abroad, but that 41.9 people per 10,000 were leaving.

The agency said the new statistics indicated that there was a continuing downward trend of people wishing to emigrate to other countries. For the previous quarter, from January to March, the INEGI said the number of people leaving Mexico was 34.3 people per 10,000.

Although most of the people crossing the Mexican borders to live in another country are still males aged between 15 and 24, the INEGI said that the rate was slowing. However, there has been an increase in the number of people emigrating from the 30 to 49 age group.

Between 2006 and 2008, 31 per cent of those leaving Mexico were males from this age group. However, the number rose to 35 per cent between 2009 and 2011, according to the institute’s records. The federal agency uses the National Occupation and Employment Survey to make its calculations.