Mexican emigration rates stable for the past five years Rate per 10, 000 Mexican inhabitants 144 '06 07 '88 '99 10 '11 '12 '13 114 '15
This decline in apprehensions coincides with recently released estimates by Mexico’s top statistical agency, which show that the rate at which Mexicans migrated to the U.S. and other countries – including both legal and unauthorized immigrants – has held steady for the past five years, after a dramatic drop during the Great Recession.
In addition to the latest trends in apprehensions, new data from the Mexican government’s main statistical agency (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía, or INEGI) show that the level of emigration of Mexicans from their country to the U.S. and other countries remains well below levels prior to the Great Recession that began in 2007. In 2015, the emigration rate to other countries was 39 per 10,000 Mexican residents during the second quarter of the year, little changed since 2011 and down substantially from 144 per 10,000 during the same quarter in 2006.
Mexican emigration rates stable for the  | past five years  | Rate per 10, 000 Mexican inhabitants  | 144  | 107  | 85  | 55  | 47  | 42  | 41  | 41  | 39  | 39  | '06 07 '88 '99 10 '11 '12 '13 114 '15  | Note: Refersto emigrationrate from the firstquarter to the second  | quarter ofeach year.  | Source: Instituto Naciona de Estadistica Survey y Geogratia, INEGI.  | Estimates based on the National Survey of Occupationand  | Employment/ENDE), 2006 to 2015  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 