For the eighth time in the last decade, during 2024 this entity occupied the first place nationally in incidence of murders, with the highest rate in the country, according to figures from the Executive Secretariat of the National Public Security System (SESNSP).
According to that organization, in the year just concluded there were 845 murders in the state, six of them classified as femicides, which yielded a rate of 110.05 victims per hundred thousand inhabitants, almost five times higher than the national average rate in that period, which was 22.72.
However, the most violent year of the last decade in Colima was 2023, when 913 acts of intentional deprivation of life were committed, which yielded a historical rate of 117.64 cases per hundred thousand inhabitants, while in 2022 the rate had been 115.39.
In the last ten years there were a total of 6,899 murders in Colima, of which 2,718 correspond to the 3 years and 2 months of the current state administration.
The streak that placed Colima in the first places in homicides began during the government of José Ignacio Peralta Sánchez, because after having registered a rate of 25.41 victims per hundred thousand inhabitants in 2015, the following year the indicator shot up to 80.02 and in 2017 it reached the highest peak of the Peralta administration, with a rate of 111, to drop to 96.10, 101.20, 84.55 and 69.22 in the following years, although it maintained the first place nationally, with the exception of 2021, when it dropped to second place, surpassed by Baja California.
In 2024, second place was occupied by the state of Morelos, with a rate of 74.42 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, well below the rate of 110.05 in Colima. In third place was Baja California, with 58.16, followed by Chihuahua (50.14), Guanajuato (48.62), Guerrero (48.19), and Sonora, with 45.54 murders per 100,000 inhabitants.
Source: proceso
