In 2020, the population in Matamoros was 541,979 inhabitants (49.4% men and 50.6% women). Compared to 2010, the population in Matamoros increased by 10.8%.
In july 2024, international sales of Matamoros were US$561M and a total of US$378M in international purchases. For this month the net trade balance of Matamoros it was of US$183M.
The main international sale in july 2024 was Parts and Accessories of Motor Vehicles (US$93.1M). The main international sales destinations were United States (US$514M), Spain (US$3.02M), and Canada (US$545k).
The main international purchase in july 2024 was Electronic Integrated Circuits (US$29M). The main countries of origin of international purchases were United States (US$179M), China (US$53.7M), and Malaysia (US$34.9M).
In the period January to June 2024, FDI in Tamaulipas reached the US$341M, distributed in reinvestment of earnings (US$178M), inter-company debts (US$165M), and equity capital (-US$562k).
From January 1999 and June 2024, Tamaulipas accumulates a total of US$745B in FDI, distributed in inter-company debts (US$12.1B), equity capital (US$8.49B), and reinvestment of earnings (US$5.21B).
* Foreign Direct Investment data is available to Tamaulipas's state.
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Main investor country Jan-Jun 2024: United States, US$161M
Main investor country Jan-1999 to Jun-2024: United States, US$13.3B
From January to June de 2024, the main origin countries of FDI in Tamaulipas were United States (US$161M), Germany (US$52.7M), and South Korea (US$22.9M).
Between January 1999 and June 2024, the countries that have contributed the most to FDI are United States (US$13.3B), Spain (US$2.77B), and Japan (US$1.95B).
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An industrial park is a geographically delimited area designed for the settlement of the industrial plant in adequate location conditions with infrastructure, equipment, basic services and permanent administration that allows continuous operation.
The total population of Matamoros in 2020 was 541,979 inhabitants, with 50.6% woman, and 49.4% men.
The age ranges that concentrated the largest population were 15 to 19 years (47,900 inhabitants), 10 to 14 years (47,820 inhabitants), and 20 to 24 years (47,084 inhabitants). Among them they concentrated 26.3% of the total population.
* In the case of the Afro-descendant population, reference is made to the population that is recognized as Afro-descendant.
5.48k inhabitants, Population that speaks an indigenous language
The visualization shows the 10 main indigenous languages spoken by the population of Matamoros.
The population of 3 years and over that speaks at least one indigenous language was 5.48k inhabitants, which corresponds to 1.01% of the total population of Matamoros.
The most widely spoken indigenous dialects were Náhuatl (3,393 inhabitants), Huasteco (725 inhabitants), and Totonaco (360 inhabitants).
The geomap shows the countries of origin of migrants to Matamoros in recent years. The bar chart shows the main causes of migration.
The largest number of migrants who entered Matamoros in the last 5 years came from United States (3.4k people), Honduras (107 people), and Cuba (72 people).
The main causes of migration to Matamoros in recent years were family (1.62k people), legal (573 people), and personal (404 people).
* The data displayed were obtained from the extended questionnaire whose data have a confidence interval of 90% and an error of 0.2.
The icons show the percentage of households that have certain elements of connectivity and/or services. With the upper selector you can switch between 5 categories that include different elements: access to technologies, entertaiment, availability of goods, availability of transport and equipment.
2020: 26.3, Average time travel to work in minutes
2020: 19.6, Average time travel to school in minutes
The visualization shows the population distribution according to travel times to work in 2020 compared to travel times at the national level.
In Matamoros, the average travel time from home to work was 26.3 minutes, 88.2% of the population takes less than an hour to move, while 3.49% takes more than 1 hour to get to work.
On the other hand, the average travel time from home to place of study was 19.6 minutes, 97.4% of the population takes less than an hour to move, while 2.35% takes more than 1 hour.
* The data displayed were obtained from the extended questionnaire whose data have a confidence interval of 90% and an error of 0.2.
The visualization shows the distribution of the means of transport to work or place to study used by the population of Matamoros according to travel times.
In 2020, 52.1% of the population used own vehicle (car, truck or motorcycle) as the main means of transportation to work.
Regarding the means of transport to go to the place of study, 41.8% of the population used own vehicle (car, truck or motorcycle) as the main means of transportation.
* The data displayed were obtained from the extended questionnaire whose data have a confidence interval of 90% and an error of 0.2.
* The data presented is available to Tamaulipas's state, since there is no representation at the municipality level.
In the second quarter of 2024, the labor participation rate in Tamaulipas was 60.6%, which implied an increase of 0.52 percentage points compared to the previous quarter (60.1%).
The unemployment rate was 3.43 % (57.3k people), which implied an increase of 0.34 percentage points compared to the previous quarter (3.09%).
The chart shows the percentage distribution of the population aged 15 years and over in Matamoros according to the approved academic degree.
In 2020, the main academic degrees of the population of Matamoros were Middle School (128k people or 33.3% of the total), High School or General Baccalaureate (99.2k people or 25.7% of the total), and Primary School (73.2k people or 19% of the total).
It is possible to see the distribution of academic degrees by sex by changing the option selected in the upper button.
* The data displayed were obtained from the extended questionnaire whose data have a confidence interval of 90% and an error of 0.2.
Top Women Area (Bachelor's Degrees - 2021): 2.9k, Health sciences
Top Men Area (Bachelor's Degrees - 2021): 3.28k, Engineering, manufacturing and construction
The areas with the highest number of men enrolled in bachelor's degrees were Engineering, manufacturing and construction (3,275), Administration and business (1,689), and Health sciences (1,383). Similarly, the study areas that concentrated the most women enrolled in bachelor's degrees were Health sciences (2,900), Administration and business (2,593), and Engineering, manufacturing and construction (1,264).
It is possible to review this distribution in other years and different areas of study by changing the options selected in the upper buttons.
In 2021, the most demanded training field in Matamoros were Industrial engineering (2.29k), Business administration (2k), and Electronics, automation and mechanics-electrical applications (1.93k).
The treemap shows the distribution of health centers according to specialties in Matamoros.
You can click on any box in the chart to view the distribution of the selected specialty by units type in the donut chart. Or select a unit type in the donut chart to modify the treemap data.
In Matamoros, the most widely used health care options in 2020 were IMSS (Social Security) (287k), Another place (89.8k), and SSAs Health Care Center or Hospital (72.8k).
In the same year, the social insurances that grouped the largest number of people were Popular Insurance or New Generation (XXI Century Health Insurance) (308k) and Not Specified (115k).
* The sum of the affiliated population is greater than the national population because a person can be affiliated with multiple health institutions.
* The data displayed were obtained from the extended questionnaire whose data have a confidence interval of 90% and an error of 0.2.
In 2020, the main disabilities present in the population of Matamoros were visual disability (12.9k people), physical disability (12.3k people), and motor disability (5.27k people).
* A person can have more than one disability and appear counted in more than one category.
The chart shows the population pyramid of disability population in Matamoros. With the upper selector it is possible to review the population pyramid for different types of disability.
By default, the chart shows the distribution of the visual disability population. 12,885 people with visual disabilities were totaled, 56% women and 44% men.
According to gender and age range, women among 55 to 59 years concentrated the 6% of the total population with visual disability, while men among 50 to 54 years concentrated the 4.85% of this population group.
* The dashed line indicates preliminary data that will be confirmed during the next 7 days.
The visualization presents the evolution of daily cases by COVID-19 in Matamoros.
With the selector at the top it is possible to change the visualization to the evolution of deaths by COVID-19 (daily or accumulated). There is also the option of viewing the data with a 7-day rolling mean or a rate per 100,000 inhabitants.
The visualization shows the distribution of confirmed cases according to age range and sex in Matamoros to the date.
The selector at the top allows you to see this distribution for deceased and hospitalized patients. Additionally, when selecting type of patient it is possible to visualize the distribution by age range of hospitalized and outpatient patients.
$166k MX, Difference between decile I and X in 2020
* The data presented is available to Tamaulipas's state, since there is no representation at the municipality level.
The visualization shows the total average quarterly current income per household in deciles of households in Tamaulipas comparing the years 2016, 2018 and 2020.
In Tamaulipas, 10% of the lowest income households (first decile) had an average quarterly income of $12.1k MX in 2020, while the 10% of households with the highest income (tenth decile) had an average quarterly income of $178k MX in the same period.
Diversity of the Person of Reference or Head of the Household
According to data from the Population Census 2020, 160k dwellings were registered. Of these, 32% are homes where the person of reference is a woman and 68% corresponds to homes where the person of reference is a man.
Regarding the age ranges of the person of reference, 12.5% of the dwellings concentrated heads of household between 45 a 49 años.
The Gini coefficient or Gini index is a statistical measure designed to represent the income distribution of the inhabitants, specifically, the inequality between them. Indices closer to 0, represent more equity among its inhabitants, while values close to 1, express maximum inequity among its population.
In 2020, in Tamaulipas, the municipalities with the lowest social inequality, according to the GINI index, were: Güémez (0.312), Mier (0.317), Nuevo Morelos (0.323), Méndez (0.325), and Casas (0.327). On the other hand, the municipalities with less social equality by this metric were: Miquihuana (0.406), Miguel Alemán (0.406), Tula (0.393), Bustamante (0.388), and Jaumave (0.384).
The visualization compares various indicators of poverty and social deprivation.
In 2020, 31.3% of the population was in a situation of moderate poverty and 3.36% in extreme poverty. The vulnerable population due to social deprivation reached a 22.2%, while the vulnerable population due to income was 14.7%.
The main social deficiencies of Matamoros in 2020 were deprivation social security, deprivation health services and deprivation food access.
In order to understand Public Safety in Mexico, this section analyzes two main concepts corresponding to theoretical approaches from which the level of Public Safety is understood: a) Perception and b) Complaint.
The perception of security seeks to measure the perception of public security that the population and households have about the place where they reside and its relationship with crime. On the other hand, the perception of trust in authorities or institutional performance seeks to know how the population perceives authorities and the actions they carry out, regardless of whether or not they have been victims of crime.
The term of complaint is used in the act by which a subject, victim or witness of a crime, reports or establishes the facts in front of the pertinent authorities, reporting an irregularity, criminal act or crime in order to be investigated.
* The data presented is available to Tamaulipas's state, since there is no representation at the municipality level.
In 2024, 26.6% of men over 18 years old in Tamaulipas perceived security in their state, while 20.2% of women over 18 years old shared this perception.
At the personal level, men from the lower middle socio-demographic stratum perceived greater security (28.3%), while women perceived greater security in the lower class socioeconomic stratum (23.9%).
* The data presented is available to Tamaulipas's state, since there is no representation at the municipality level.
In 2024, 9.97% of the population of Tamaulipas claimed to have a lot of confidence in the state police, while a 15.8% indicated they have a lot of distrust.
Similarly, a 13.2% of the population assured that they had a lot of trust in the Public Ministry and State Prosecutors, a 21.4% in the Judges and a 26.3% in the Federal Police, while a 12.6%, a 11.1% and a 6.32% claimed to have a lot of distrust in them, respectively.
In the graph you can analyze the level of trust in other authorities and review the data by gender by changing the option selected in the upper button.
* Percentages exclude the "Don't know / no answer" option.
The complaints with the highest occurrence during July 2024 were Domestic Violence (79), Stole (69), and Damage to Property (39), which covered a 53.3% of total complaints for the month.
When comparing the number of complaints in July 2023 and July 2024, those with the highest growth were Trust Abuse (100%), Damage to Property (77.3%), and Fraud (54.5%).