The Top One Percent in Mexico, 1984-2018

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide an economic and sociodemographic overview of the richest percentile in Mexico. The paper is divided into two parts. First, using household income surveys in Mexico during the 1984-2018 period, a correlation of absolute and relative income is drawn between different periods to observe the oscillation of its absolute income, its share of total income, periodic accumulation and the types of origin of its income. Second, assuming that there is a reduction of income in the highest part of the surveys, absolute income is modified based on similar percentages of the richest percentile in similar countries to Mexico calculated by other authors.