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Mexico
A January 2026 law requires every mobile line in Mexico to be registered to a person using the CURP, which is being upgraded to a biometric version. A state court suspended the biometric CURP in September 2025, but the federal government proceeded. The digital peso remains in development.
Digital ID · Goal 16.9
Digital ID in Mexico
- Program
- CURP Biométrica / Llave MX
- Status
- Mandatory for daily life
- National ID card
- ID card voluntary
- Biometrics
- Yes
- Law
- Mobile line registration law, 9 January 2026
Existing lines had to be registered by 30 June 2026; unregistered lines were to be suspended from 1 July. The CURP Biométrica adds a photo, electronic signature and QR code linked to biometric records. Reports differ on whether SIM registration itself collects biometrics; the president has said the biometric CURP is optional.
Digital money · Goal 8.10
Central bank digital currency
- Status
- In development
- Name
- Digital peso
Banco de México development work; launch repeatedly delayed.
On the record
What has happened, newest first
- 2026-01-09Rolling it out
Mexico enacted a law tying every mobile line to a verified person. Mobile ID World ↗
- 2025-09Courts & law
A Yucatán state court suspended the CURP Biométrica program over privacy concerns; the federal government proceeded. Mobile ID World ↗
- 2022Pushback
Supreme Court struck down the PANAUT biometric mobile phone registry as violating privacy rights. ecija.com ↗
UN and WHO
How Mexico has voted
- WHO
- Accepted the 2024 rule changes
- Pandemic Agreement (May 2025)
- No recorded objection
- Migration compact (Dec 2018)
- Voted yes
- Paris climate deal
- Party
- SDG Index 2026
- 70.5 · rank 75 of 169
- Progress reports to the UN (VNRs)
- 4
Sovereignty score
How the -3 adds up
- +1Scrapped or court-blocked a national digital ID (since 2015) source ↗
- -1Building a CBDC (development stage) source ↗
- -2Digital ID required for banking, phones or daily life source ↗
- -1Prices carbon nationally (tax or emissions trading) source ↗
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Country research checked Oct 2026. Tracker data checked 11 Oct 2026. Every claim links to its source.