Institute for Economics & Peace Identifying and measuring the factors that drive peace MEXICO

The deterioration was driven by a 157 and Zacatecas.  percent increase in the rate of retail drug crime.  • Yucatán was the most peaceful state in the country • The past decade has seen major shifts in the for the seventh consecutive year. [...] In were recorded in Guanajuato, Zacatecas, Quintana contrast, the average score of the countries in the Roo, and Baja California.  wider Central America and the Caribbean region improved by 0.4 percent during the same period.  • Tamaulipas has recorded the largest overall improvement in the last nine years, followed by Sinaloa, • Positive Peace in Mexico has recorded substantial Coahuila, Durango,. [...] Sub-indicator weights adjust the scores based on the distribution of crimes, the relative social impact of the offense, and the degree to which the crime represents the presence of criminal organizations in a particular state of the country. [...] The state rose three places in 2023, from 31st to 28th, driven by an 81.6 percent decline in its organized crime In Fresnillo, the most populous municipality in Zacatecas, 96.4 rate as well as improvements of almost 30 percent in its rates of percent of the population felt unsafe in 2023, the highest rate of both homicide and firearms crime. [...] This increase was driven by a 22.9 percent gangs.16 The increase in violence can, in part, be attributed to increase in the assault rate, along with a 7.3 percent increase in Zacatecas’s strategic position, with important drug trafficking the rate of family violence and a 6.3 increase in the rate of routes crossing the state.