Mexico will close 2024 with more than 120,000 missing persons, according to the national registry. The states with the most reported victims continue to be Jalisco, with 14,985; Mexico State, 13,192; Tamaulipas, 13,163; Veracruz, 7,063; and Nuevo León, 6,760.
These states are followed by Michoacán, with 6,259; Sinaloa, with 5,976; Mexico City, with 5,526; Sonora, with 4,900; Guerrero, with 4,291; and Chihuahua, with 3,927.
In May 2022, the country surpassed 100,000 reported cases and continued its upward trend, adding another 20,000 cases.
A review of the data reveals that between 2023 and 2024, some states saw an increase in their numbers due to the rise in violence by organized crime and other criminal groups. This is the case in Sinaloa, which, while between January 1 and December 24, 2023, saw 314 people in this situation increase, in the same period in 2024, the number rose to 703, representing an increase of more than 100 percent.
Of the total of 120,257 missing persons as of Wednesday, 76.84 percent are men, 22.80 percent are women, and in 0.36 percent, the sex of the person is unknown.
