Overview
- Mexico registered 211,894 deaths from January to March 2025, a decline of 1,445 versus the same period in 2024, for a mortality rate of 162.5 per 100,000 inhabitants.
- Diseases of the heart, diabetes mellitus and malignant tumors were the leading causes, with 51,382, 30,578 and 23,678 deaths respectively, while influenza/pneumonia and liver disease rounded out the top five.
- Deaths were concentrated among older adults, with 59.7% of registered deaths occurring in people aged 65 and over.
- Cause-of-death patterns varied by age and sex: homicide led mortality for ages 25–44—particularly among men—while malignant tumors were the principal cause for women in those age groups, with 7,133 homicides reported in Q1.
- A review of 1998–2023 records identified 735 deaths across eight extremely rare categories that experts say function as sentinel events indicating potential preventable failures, diagnostic errors or coding problems.