Overview
- INEGI reports that 45.2% of urban adults who interacted with public-security authorities in the first half of 2025 experienced corruption.
- In the same period, 8.9% of adults who completed at least one government procedure reported being victimized during that interaction.
- ENCIG 2023 estimates that 95.2% of corrupt acts are not reported, pointing to a much larger problem than formal complaints capture.
- In 2023 the federal administration opened 40,145 administrative-fault investigations but sanctioned only 2,341 public servants.
- Business exposure remained significant in 2023, with 169,769 firms reporting victimization and the highest prevalence in medium-sized companies at 8.4%.