Mexican homicide rate soars

The number of homicides in Mexico in 2017 was higher than originally thought, with 31,174 slayings – up 27 percent from 24,559 in 2016

400km
250 miles

Tijuana
Ciudad Juarez
MEXICO 
Monterrey
Guadalajara 
Mexico City 
Acapulco

Population of Mexico: 127.5m

Highest rate since records began in 1997, including peak year of drug war in 2011


HOMICIDE RATE PER 100,000 INHABITANTS, 2016-2017
  State              2016    2017
1 Aguascalientes       4       6
2 Baja California     32      60
3 Baja California Sur 30      91
4 Campeche            10       8
5 Coahuila             8       9
6 Colima              82     113
7 Chiapas             10      11
8 Chihuahua           47      59
9 Mexico City         14      15
10 Durango            12      11
11 Guanajuato         21      38
12 Guerrero           71      71
13 Hidalgo             7      11
14 Jalisco            16      20
15 Mexico State       16      18
16 Michoacán          29      36
17 Morelos            33      32
18 Nayarit            12      36
19 Nuevo León         12      13
20 Oaxaca             19      21
21 Puebla             12      17
22 Querétaro           7      11
23 Quintana Roo       12      27
24 San Luis Potosí    11      18
25 Sinaloa            43      53
26 Sonora             19      25
27 Tabasco            18      18
28 Tamaulipas         22      32
29 Tlaxcala            7      10
30 Veracruz           13      19
31 Yucatán             3       2
32 Zacatecas          36      43

Mexico (all)          20      25


Firearms were leading cause of homicide deaths in 2017, with 20,049 gunshot victims


Sources: AP, UPI, INEGI Note: Preliminary 2017 figures Picture: Getty Images
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