translated from Spanish: In July, almost 40,000 fewer jobs were created than in 2018

The Mexican Institute of Social Security (IMSS) reported that in July of this year 16,713 formal jobs were created, almost 40 thousand less than last year, when a monthly creation of 54,669 posts was reported. It’s a 69% casualty.
“So far this year, 306,014 jobs have been created, 90% of which are permanent jobs,” the Institute said, in a statement.
In the same period, from January to July 2018, they were created 530,789 jobs; by making the comparison of the first seven months of the year, it is 42% less.
As of 31 July 2019, IMSS had registered 20 million 385, 379 workers; 85.9% are permanent, and 14.1% are permanent. Thus, compared to July 2018, there are 436,135 more registered workers, equivalent to an annual rate of 2.2%.
In the first half of this year, under the government of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, 289,301 formal jobs were created, 186 thousand 819 less than in the first half of 2018 (476,120), a 39% drop.
According to Mexico, how are we doing, the job creation figure in January-June of this year was the lowest for that period since 2009, when the effects of a global economic crisis were resented.
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Original source in Spanish