MEXICO CITY, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Mexico’s daily murder rate is down nearly 40% from when President Claudia Scheinbaum took office, government officials said on Thursday, citing preliminary statistics.
The daily average of homicides in December 2025 was 52.4, down from 86.9 in September 2024, the month before Scheinbaum took office.
“This is the lowest number since 2016,” Sheinbaum said at a morning news conference with security officials.
According to the head of Mexico’s national public security system, Mexico’s national murder rate for 2025 was 17.5 per 100,000 people, the lowest level since 2015.
Scheinbaum said the figures showed her administration’s security strategy was yielding results and praised the close collaboration between security and justice officials and governors.
Homicide figures are revised, often upwards, when they are officially released by the national statistics agency INEGI after they have been revised, checked and adjusted.
(Reporting by Raul Cortez Fernandez and Brendan O’Boyle; Writing by Brendan O’Boyle; Editing by Stephen Eisenhamer)
