Mexico's average life satisfaction reached 8.62 on a scale of 0 to 10, according to the National Survey of Self-Reported Wellbeing (ENBIARE) 2025, published by Inegi on July 14. The figure, up from the 8.45 recorded in 2021, reveals that seven out of ten people who cover their household expenses without difficulty report being completely satisfied with their lives.
The ENBIARE, which Inegi conducts every four years among adults aged 18 and older, measures life satisfaction, daily emotional states, and sense of purpose. Some 45.1 percent of adults reported that covering monthly household expenses is easy or very easy, while 17.3 percent face difficulty doing so, according to Forbes México on July 18. Among those with financial ease, 71 percent report being completely satisfied with their lives; among those who struggle to make ends meet, only 44.1 percent reach that level. The data establish that subjective wellbeing depends not only on gross income, but on the effective capacity to meet the demands of daily life.
The survey also exposes significant regional inequality. The states with the highest proportion of adults reporting difficulty covering expenses are Guerrero (28.1 percent), Tabasco (26.3), and Oaxaca (25.8), while Baja California (9.8), Coahuila (10.1), and Nuevo León (11.0) record the lowest levels. On the health dimension, there is a gap of 1.85 points in life satisfaction between those who rate their health as good and those who consider it very poor, according to La Jornada. Additionally, 36.3 percent of adults show indicators of depression, and only 37.3 percent report having surpassed their parents in asset accumulation. Freedom to make decisions about one's own life was the highest-rated domain, scoring 8.96.
The ENBIARE 2025 delivers a statistical snapshot that makes it possible to track the evolution of subjective wellbeing beyond GDP per capita. With a four-year periodicity, the survey gives social policy a verifiable benchmark for assessing whether public interventions translate into perceptible improvements in people's daily lives.
This article was drafted with artificial intelligence assistance from verified sources and reviewed by a human editor before publication.