Mexico: epidemiological surveillance budget 2009-2020

The 2020 budget of the epidemiological surveillance of the Secretariat of Health in Mexico amounted to 533 million Mexican pesos (approximately 22.7 million U.S. dollars at March 2020 exchange rates). It is the lowest amount in the most recent 11 years. During the swine flue epidemic of 2009, the budget amounted to 2.16 billion pesos and the epidemic was partly combated with the Catastrophic Expenditures Fund of the Public Insurance. In 2018, Mexico invested approximately 5.5 percent of its GDP in healthcare.