60 %
Sources: INEGI, Census 2020. ECLAC, Indigenous peoples in Latin America [in Spanish], 2014.
Cyprus
9,251 km²
Hidalgo 8,925 km²
Belize
22,970 km² Sources: INEGI, Census 2020. ECLAC, Indigenous peoples in Latin America [in Spanish], 2014.
Since 2015, Hidalgo has a Law on the Rights of Girls, Boys and Adolescents that acknowledges them as holders of rights, such as the right to live in a healthy environment and to healthy comprehensive development; the right to live free from violence and to personal integrity; the right to education and the right to participation.
Population percentage between 0-17 years old in poverty for a year
Percentage
1. Did you know that Hidalgo has a population of almost 960 thousand girls, boys and adolescents? This is more than the total population of entire countries like Cyprus or Belize.
In Hidalgo there are 70 thousand indigenous girls, boys and adolescents; four times more than the indigenous population of El Salvador.
When you think about children and adolescents in Hidalgo, remember that the majority of them are poor.
Girls, boys and adolescents in Hidalgo speak 24 different indigenous languages: Ch’ol, Chatino, Chinanteco, Chontal, Huasteco, Maya, Mazahua, Mazateco, Mixe, Mixteco, Nahuatl, Otomi, Popoloca, Tarasco, Tepehua, Tepehuano from the South, Tlapaneco, Totonaco, Triqui, Tseltal, Tsotsil, Zapoteco, Zoque and other indigenous languages from the Americas. Among these, the most spoken ones by children and adolescents in Hidalgo are Nahuatl and Otomi.
57.3 %
59.4 %
2018
2020
40 % 20 % 0%
Sources: National Council for the Evaluation of Social Development Policy (CONEVAL), Poverty measurement 2018-2020 [in Spanish].
In Mexico a girl, boy or adolescent is poor when they lack at least one social element (related to access to food, educational lag, access to health services, access to social security, quality and housing spaces, or basic services in the house) and the household income is insufficient to satisfy their food and non-food needs. This is the condition under which more than half of Hidalgo’s children and adolescents live.
It would take three Azteca Stadiums to house all the girls, boys and adolescents in Hidalgo that do NOT have access to nutritious and quality food.
Sources: CONEVAL, Poverty measurement 2018-2020. Wikipedia, Estadio Azteca, 2022.
As per our Constitution, every person has the right to food of adequate quantity and quality. Nevertheless, almost one out of three girls, boys and adolescents in Hidalgo has a deficiency due to the lack of access thereto, which means that the right to food of one third of children and adolescents in Hidalgo has been violated because of the lack of a frequent and diverse nutrition that increases the probability of satisfying the intake of the required calories and nutrients.