Mexico: user share of leading dating apps 2021

As of February 2021, almost half (48 percent) of Mexican dating app users surveyed stated using Tinder. Meanwhile, 29 percent of respondents cited Bumble and about nine percent mentioned Badoo.

Sex and solitude

Throughout 2020, lockdown and social distancing measures implemented to counter the spread of the coronavirus pushed many Mexicans to seek human contact on dating apps. In another 2021 survey, approximately 18 percent of Mexicans who used dating apps stated that they did it to find friends. Still nearly three out of ten people surveyed said they turned to those apps to have sexual encounters, while about 40 percent reported focusing on finding a partner. Dating apps may remain an option for those fighting solitude. Of Mexicans participating in a third survey, a quarter of them said they were likely to feel lonely over the course of 2021.

LGBTQ+ online

It has been almost a century and a half since homosexuality was legalized in Mexico, but only recently have people with different sexual orientations or gender identities been able to count on spaces thought for them. As the survey results show, Grindr, a dating app focused on men seeking other men, is now also among the most popular in the North American country. After all, lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgenders and other persons who do not identify as heterosexual and/or cisgender in Mexico appear to be very well equipped to stay connected, as more than 9 out of 10 members of the LGBT+ community surveyed stated owning a smartphone, and over 80 percent indicated having a laptop.