MEXICO CITY, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Mexico's daily murder rate has fallen nearly 40% from where it was when Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum took office, government officials said on Thursday, citing preliminary statistics.
The daily homicide average in December 2025 was 52.4, down from 86.9 in September 2024, the month before Sheinbaum took office.
"It is the lowest number since 2016," Sheinbaum said at her morning press conference alongside security officials.
For the full year, Mexico's national murder rate per 100,000 people was 17.5 in 2025, the lowest since 2015, according to a presentation by the head of Mexico's National Public Security System.
Sheinbaum said the numbers showed her government's security strategy was producing results and credited close collaboration between security and justice officials and state governors.
Homicide numbers are usually revised, often upwards, when they are formally released by the national statistics agency INEGI after going through a process of revisions, checks and adjustments.
(Reporting by Raul Cortes Fernandez and Brendan O'Boyle; Writing by Brendan O'Boyle; editing by Stephen Eisenhammer)
