To follow homicide cases in certain places, statisticians have created a standard known as the homicide rate, which is the number of homicides reported for 100,000 residents over a given period, generally a year.
Nationally, the homicide rate of Mexico has tidyfalling in the 1990s at a rate almost comparable to that of the United States.
From 2007, homicides began to increase, perhaps coinciding with increases in the use of opioids and methamphetamine in the United States, the rate reached its peak in 2018 with 29.58 homicide deaths per 100,000, and now seems to drop slowly in the past five years.
Violence against women is also a particular concern for the Mexican government, as women victims have it increased by 135% in proportion Since 2015.
The most likely problems linked to these homicide trends are drug trafficking, money laundering operations and corrupt police forces that are under control by organized crime groups.
Like many other countries, the cities of Mexico often witness the violence of gangs. Mexico also contains hundreds of additional rural areas which are relatively exempt from local criminal gangs and drug cartel conflicts.
