Reply To: Exercise 5

[Yasmin Garcia Mendez]

In Mexico, according to the WHO Rehabilitation Need Estimator, in 2019, about 37 million people experienced conditions that could benefit from rehabilitation. This is 2 in 7 Mexicans. The leading condition was low back pain with 8.2 million prevalent cases in the same year.

According to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI) 6,179,890 had some kind of disability in 2020 in Mexico, which represents 4.9 % of the total population.

According to the INEGI, in 2022 there were 91,501 persons injured due to road traffic injuries.

Most prevalent conditions in Mexico in 2019 were musculoskeletal conditions, followed by sensory impairments.