The national average of intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, until the end of October 31, 2025, is 12.85 murders. States such as Baja California, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tabasco exceed this national average.
Mexico City, November 19 (However).– Over the course of 2025, the average intentional homicides has decreased in 30 of the 32 entities of the Republic. It has only increased by Baja California Sur and Sinaloa. While Colima, in the first place, followed by Morelos, Sinaloa, Baja California and Guanajuatoare the entities in the country that remain among the top five entities in the Republic with the highest average of intentional homicides and victims of intentional homicides, per 100 thousand inhabitants, according to the most recent report published by the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security Systemthe National Information Center and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, with a cut-off date of October 31, 2025.
Just this Tuesday, November 18, 2025, the Secretary of the Navy reported, in a statement through the X social network, that as part of the security strategy called “Sailfish 2025“, during surveillance tours in the municipalities of Colima, Tecomán and Villa de Álvarez, in the state of Colima, naval personnel managed to arrest 54 alleged lawbreakersseizure of weapons, illicit substances and insured assets. This is great news for an entity that appears in first place nationally for the average of intentional homicides and victims of intentional homicides in the country, between January and October 2025.
The situation of Colima is very delicate, since it is the least populated state in the country, with only 731 thousand 391 inhabitants, according to the 2020 Population Census of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography, it appears in first place nationally with the highest average of intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, with 59.84, the same with the highest record of victims of intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, with 66.09 people violently murdered.
The national average of intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, until the end of October 31, 2025, is 12.85 murders. States such as Baja California, Colima, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Morelos, Oaxaca, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tabasco exceed this national average. The most relevant cases, that is, the states in which there is more tranquility because they are well below the national average of homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, are Yucatán, Coahuila, Durango, Querétaro, Tamaulipas and Chiapas.
There are some cases that are worth highlighting because in the last 11 years, from 2015 to 2025, in Baja California Sur the decrease in the average homicide rate fell from 79.91 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in 2017 to only 10.95 cases in 2025, below the national average for violent murders. However, between 2024 and 2025 this average increased again in Baja California Sur.
We can also highlight the case of the state of Hidalgo, which over the most recent 11 years has always been below the average of 10 intentional homicides per 100 thousand inhabitants, registering only 6.52 cases of violent deaths in 2025. Durango is another notable case, with an average of just 2.44 intentional homicides per 100,000 inhabitants, the third lowest in the entire country during 2025.
Jalisco, the state in which the most powerful and violent criminal organization in the country, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is based, shows a notable decrease in the average of intentional homicides, from a record of 23.95 cases per 100 thousand inhabitants in 2019, to 9.08 cases between January and October 2025.
The state of Querétaro is also a very safe state, in terms of the incidence of homicides in the last decade, since its highest peak was 7.83 cases in 2017 and 2018, dropping to a record of 4.41 between January and October 2025.
But the cake in terms of security in the first 10 months of 2025 goes to the state of Yucatán, with the lowest record in the entire Republic: just 1.03 homicides on average per 100 thousand inhabitants, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System and the Secretariat of Security and Citizen Protection, as of October 31, 2025.
Regarding victims of intentional homicides, the most worrying case in the country is Colima, with an average of 66.09 victims per 100 thousand inhabitants. An average that has decreased in the last eleven years, reaching up to 118.03 victims of intentional homicide in 2023 and 115.39 on average in 2022.
The average number of victims of intentional homicides in the country is 15.07 people affected. But there are states that maintain very high records such as Guanajuato and Guerrero, above 30 cases with respect to the same proportion of inhabitants. While entities such as Mexico City, Durango, Hidalgo, Jalisco and the State of Mexico are below the national average in terms of victims of intentional homicides.
Morelos, Sinaloa, Sonora and Tabasco continue to have very high averages of victims of intentional homicide. Particularly in the case of Sinaloa, in the last ten months the average number of people killed in an internal war between factions of the Sinaloa Cartel has increased significantly.
Statistics reflect concrete facts. In this look at the averages of intentional homicides and victims of violent deaths throughout the country, a noticeable decrease is observed in the last eleven years, and in particular between 2024 and 2025.