All-cause deaths in Mexico increased by 4.4% year-on-year in the first half of 2025 to a total of 402,320, according to a report released Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi). Deaths in the first half of 2025 were lower than the 420,457 recorded in the same period of 2024, a difference of 18,137 deaths. The autonomous body highlighted that, for the fourth consecutive year, the main cause of death was heart disease, with 95,935 deaths from January to June. This was followed by diabetes (56,541 deaths), malignant tumors (47,121), influenza and pneumonia (20,097), liver diseases (19,517), and accidents (19,292). The list of the top ten causes of death is completed by cerebrovascular diseases (17,199), homicides (14,488), chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (10,202), and kidney failure (8,780). Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, which left more than 334,000 recognized deaths in Mexico, the country recorded the two years with the most deaths from any cause in 2021, with over 1.12 million, and in 2020, with nearly 1.08 million, according to Inegi. Subsequently, deaths decreased to 847,716 in 2022 and to 799,869 in 2023, although they rose to 819,672 annual deaths in 2024. You may also be interested > Profepa secures over 100 wild birds in Morelos tianguis. Inegi's data comes from administrative records of death certificates from the Civil Registry, Forensic Medical Services, and Prosecutor's Office notebooks. Like in 2024, the top three causes of death were the same for men and women in the first half of 2025. The main distinction by gender is in homicides, which ranked sixth for men with 12,781 victims, while it did not make the top ten for women. Of the deaths recorded in the first six months of 2025, 55.7% were men, 44.2% were women, and the rest were of unspecified gender.
