The book, the favorite of 80% of literates ages 12 and up; 31.3% read newspapers
Of every 100 literate Mexicans aged 12 or over, 80 read at least one material this year and 20 read nothing; the majority (the 79%) of that population read books; he 57.8% read internet pages, forums or blogs; he 37.4%magazines; he 31.3%newspapers, and the 26.4%comics, comics or mangas, reports the Inegi today, November 18, when announcing the results of the Reading Module (Molec) of 2025.
Besides, 13.1% of the literate population aged 12 or over in the country She is a reader only of social networkssegment included for the first time in the Molec of 2025. There are 13 million 560 thousand 838 Mexicans, of which 7,845,828 are women (57.9%) and 5,715,010 are men (42.1%).
Changes in Mexico reader statistics
He National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi) clarifies that the Molec from 2025 expanded its coverage to population aged 12 years and over in Mexicoafter from 2015 to 2024 it was applied to the Mexicans aged 18 and over in the country. What did not change is that the survey is carried out in 32 cities with 100,000 or more inhabitantsone from each state.
Specifically, it says Inegiin 2025 hay 103 million 865 thousand 940 literate people (who know how to read and write) 12 years old (55,033,304 women and 48,832,636 men) in 32 cities in the country, while in 2024 there was 41,747,033 alphabets aged 18 and over (23,506,513 women and 18,240,520 men).
According to the Inegi, 82,143,206 people are readers and 8,161,896 are non-readers in this 2025.
Another relevant situation that must be taken into account when comparing the results of the Molec is that this survey was applied in February 2024 y June 2025that is, the data are 16 months apart, not a year.
Readers from Mexico: There are more women readers
Some of the results of Molec from 2025presented almost a week after the National Book Day (November 12) in Mexicoare the following:
He 79.8% of men and 78.4% of women are readers; in 2024 they were the 69.9 y 69.3 percent, respectively. In absolute numbers, Mexican readers are 43,150, 840 women and 38,992,366 men.
Most of women (80.4%) read books; 55.9%, internet pages, forums or blogs; 38.8%, magazines; 27.4%, newspapers; 24.6%, comics, comics or mangas, and a minority, 14.3%, read only social networks.
Although also the majority of the men (77.5%) read books, their second favorite material is internet pages, forums or blogs, since 59.9% of men read them. In third place, with 35.8% of men, are magazines and newspapers; while 28.4% read comics, comics and mangas and 11.7% read only social networks.
Readers from Mexico: preferences by age
By age groups, the alphabets of 12-24 years They are the ones who read the most books (82.1% of them) and also comics, comics and mangas (40.5%)
The people of 25-39 years are the largest consumers of internet pages, forums and blogs (64.6%), of magazines (42.8%) and newspapers (37.1%).
The people of 40-59 years They are the ones who read the most only social networks (17.7% of them). They are followed by the groups of 25-39 years (12.3%), 60 and over (11.8%) and 12-24 years (8.9%).
In 2024, Mexicans 18-24 years were the biggest readers of books (59.18% of them), of comics (13.29%) and internet pages, forums and blogs (59.58%); while the people of 25-34 years was the one who read the most magazines (25.95%) and that of 55-64 years the largest consumers of newspapers (21.49% of them).
Likewise, in 2024, of the 41.7 million literate Mexicans aged 18 and over, the majority (41.84%) read books; 39.45%, internet pages, forums or blogs; 21.68%, magazines; 17.84%, newspapersand 4.59%, comics.
Newspaper readers in 2025: young people
As for newspapers, the Molec from 2025 reveals that 63.6% of literate men He said he reads them, but when the verification was done (section, column or news) it turned out that only the 36.4% reads them. The same thing happened withas women: 55.5% said they read them and it was verified that the 44.5% She is a newspaper reader.
By age groups, once the verification was done it turned out that newspaper readers son 50.6% of the urban alphabets of 12-24 years; 42.5% of the 25-39 year old group; 37.5% of people aged 40-59, and 30.6% of literates aged 60 and over.
According to Inegi, the newspaper reading population in 2024 was 21.49% of adults in 55-64 years20.31% of the people of 65 or older19.73% of the group of 45-54 years; 17.46% of the alphabets of 25-34 years15.89% of the group of 35-44 years and 11.62% of young people from 18-24 years.
In absolute figures, says the Inegiin 2025 the greatest amount of newspaper readers has 25-39 years (8,107,121 Mexicans) and are followed by the alphabets of 40-54 years (8,075,862 people), while in 2024 most had 25-34 years (1,394,533 Mexicans) and were followed by those from 55-64 years (1,336,043)
Of the total 25.751,871 Mexican alphabets 12 years or older who read newspapers14,428,061 read them in digital format (56%) and 11,323,810 do not (44%), while 11,718,522 prefer the printed (45.5%) and 14,033,349 do not read on paper (54.5%).