Gross fixed investment in Mexico fell 10.6% year-on-year in January of 2021, following an 11.5% slump in the previous month and compared with market expectations of a 12.3% plunge. It was the smallest monthly decline in private investment since March of last year, as the economy gradually recovers from the Covid-19 shock. Construction spending fell 11.3%, following a 14.1% slump in December, mainly due to a softer decrease in non-residential investment (-13.5% vs -19.4%). Meanwhile, investment in machinery and equipment shrank 9.5%, faster than an 8.1% fall in the previous month. On a seasonally adjusted monthly basis, private investment rose 3.3%, the most since last August, after a downwardly revised 1.6% decrease in the prior month. source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI)
Private Investment in Mexico averaged 1.89 percent from 1994 until 2021, reaching an all time high of 33.10 percent in July of 1996 and a record low of -41.90 percent in June of 1995. This page provides - Mexico Private Investment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Mexico Gross Fixed Investment - data, historical chart, forecasts and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2021.
Private Investment in Mexico is expected to be -5.00 percent by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Private Investment in Mexico to stand at 0.50 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the Mexico Gross Fixed Investment is projected to trend around 1.50 percent in 2022, according to our econometric models.