A new report released today by the Progressive Policy Institute shows Mexico’s App Economy – app developers and other workers who create, maintain, and support mobile phone applications – grew by 11 percent from 2019 to 2020, and by 7 percent from 2018 to 2019. The report also estimates Mexico has 178,000 App Economy jobs as of 2020. This growth is consistent with App Economy growth across the world during the pandemic.
“As people have engaged in social distancing and work from home to mitigate the virus, wireless connectivity has never been more critical. Smartphones and apps are increasingly becoming a part of daily life, and Mexico’s strong and growing app economy is indicative of the country’s embrace of digital transformation and shows how Mexico will be positioned as the global economy recovers from this pandemic,” said Michael Mandel and Elliott Long, report authors and economists at the Progressive Policy Institute.
This growth is helping cushion the economic and human damage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico.
Read the full report here.
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