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Mexico is the 15th largest country in the world and the 11th most populous one, with a current population of ~125 million people. It is considered to be a middle-income country because it is one of the countries with the highest Gross National Income (GNI) in Latin America. Nevertheless, income disparity and poverty are the country's main health challenges.Even though the country's health budget remained above 5.4% of its gross domestic product (GDP) between 2010 and 2019, Mexico's Gini coefficient (used to gauge economic income/wealth inequality within a country, with values between 0 and 1, 1 being the most unequal) was 0.46. 1 By contrast the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Gini coefficient average,