7/21/15 El Daily Post
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here were 19,699 registered homicides in Mexico last year, 16 for every 100,000 residents.
That’s 16 percent fewer than the year before, when 19 homicides per 100,000 were registered. These figures, published this week by the National Statistics Institute (INEGI), are crunched from Civil Registry data and from information supplied by local prosecutors across the nation. Homicide-rate measured per 100,000 population is an international indicator used by the United Nations, as well as by INEGI since 1990. In Mexico’s case, they confirm that through 2014 at least, Mexico’s murder rate has been dropping since 2011. In raw numbers, the 19,699 registered homicides in 2014 were 7,544 fewer than in 2011, 6,298 fewer than 2012 and 3,394 fewer than 2013.
The first two full years of the Peña Nieto administration (2013-14) registered, according to INEGI, 10,448 homicides fewer than what was registered in the last two years of his predecessor, Felipe Calderón.
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