Violence displaced members of more than half a million Mexican households in past 5 years

MEXICO CITY -- Violence has forcibly displaced people from more than half a million households across Mexico in the past five years, according to new figures released by Mexico's national statistics agency, the first numbers that speak to the depth of what many have described as an invisible internal displacement crisis.Until now, Mexico's government did not share comprehensive data on people who have been forced to flee their homes due to ongoing violence in many parts of Mexico, leaving civil society groups piecing together information to get a wider view of the problem.The figures published this week by Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography, or INEGI — an autonomous government agency that has at times been at odds with Mexico's ruling party — offer the first wider snapshot of the ongoing crisis.Between October 2020 and October 2025, people in 510,000 households across Mexico were forced to flee to another part of the country. That could range from a single person to an entire family. The displacement affected 1.6 million people, including those forced to flee and those left behind to cope with the consequences of the crisis. The figures show the problem has rea...