Security by state
Homicide by state, the Mexico Peace Index for all 32, and security beside investment.
Homicides by state
Deaths by homicide per 100,000 people, 2025, preliminary; the dashed line is all Mexico
20 of 32 sit below the national rate of 21; Yucatán is lowest at 2 and Colima highest at 89. A state rate says little about a given industrial park: violence concentrates in some municipalities.
Homicides across Mexico, year by year
Deaths by homicide per 100,000 people, 2019 to 2025 (2025 preliminary; 2024 as published in its own preliminary release)
29 per 100,000 in 2019 and 21 in 2025 (36,661 deaths in 2019, 27,989 in 2025); 2019 to 2023 are final figures, 2024 and 2025 preliminary.
The Mexico Peace Index, all 32
Overall score, 2026 edition (2025 data); lower is more peaceful, first on top
Yucatán first, Colima last. The index combines homicide, violent crime, crime with firearms, detention without sentence and organised crime.
Business and risk side by side
Each state: foreign direct investment booked in 2025 (preliminary), USD millions, beside its homicide rate in 2025
Sorted by investment, largest first. Investment is booked where a company keeps its head office, so Mexico City leads it, and 5 states booked net outflows (no bar). Of the ten states that booked the most, 5 carry a homicide rate above the national 21; of the 3 with the lowest rates, 2 sit in the lower half for investment. A state figure on either side says little about a given municipality. Two dates and two sources, in two columns, never one series.
The prosecutors’ count for 2026, beside it
Victims of intentional homicide in state prosecutors’ case files per 100,000 people, January to September 2026 (nine months, not a year)
12,854 victims in nine months. This is the SESNSP’s count, not INEGI’s: prosecutors’ files and death records are different counts, so no change is computed between this chart and the ones above.
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