Mexico: López Obrador’s First Year

Support for this sector of the population, which López Obrador claims has been neglected for too long, comprises key policies of his administration. According to figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) the proportion of 15-to-29-year-olds in Mexico that are considered NEETs reached 20.88% in 2018, equivalent to 6.4 million people.