This International Women’s Day, the CONEVAL provides information relative to the female population through the results of multidimensional poverty measurement, which allow knowing the social situation of the entire Mexican population and the type of attention each population group requires.

A person is considered in multidimensional poverty situation when his/her income is insufficient to acquire the goods and services he/she requires to satisfy his/her needs and presents social lacks in at least one of the following six indicators:

 Educational gap
 Access to healthcare
 Access to social security
 Home quality and spaces
 Basic services at home
 Access to food

The official methodology to measure multidimensional poverty corresponding to 2008 shows the following data relative to the female population in Mexico:

  47.2 million Mexicans live in multidimensional poverty conditions, out of which 24.4 million are women,,
  2.6 million women in Mexico are vulnerable due to income, that is, do not have social lacks but earn a low income.
  17.6 million Mexican women are vulnerable due to social lacks, that is, have one ore more social lack and earn an income that allows them economic wellbeing.
  10.3 million Mexican women have no social lacks but earn an income that allows them economic wellbeing.