Mexico Cartel Violence
One of the highest absolute homicide counts in the world outside a declared war.
Severity score
49.9
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Organised crime groups contest drug, fuel and extortion markets across large parts of Mexico, with around thirty thousand homicides a year and over a hundred thousand people registered as disappeared. Journalists and local officials are killed at high rates.
Score breakdown
Loss of life
70Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
58People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
52Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
4Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
34Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.