Comments on: The facts on US citizen deaths in Mexico https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/the-facts-on-us-citizen-deaths-in-mexico/ Mexico's English-language news Fri, 17 May 2024 16:56:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: James Rieter https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/the-facts-on-us-citizen-deaths-in-mexico/comment-page-1/#comment-5288 Fri, 17 May 2024 16:56:30 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=341794#comment-5288 I live in Ajijic, never felt safer. Walk the streets any time of day or night and all of my neighbors who are mostly Mexican are as nice and welcoming as you could ever want.

]]> By: Mark Hagerstrom https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/the-facts-on-us-citizen-deaths-in-mexico/comment-page-1/#comment-5286 Fri, 17 May 2024 14:45:07 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=341794#comment-5286 In reply to africa_rhino@hotmail.com.

You need to account for time spent. Being in the US 365 days is much different than being on a one to two week vacation in Mexico.

]]> By: africa_rhino@hotmail.com https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/the-facts-on-us-citizen-deaths-in-mexico/comment-page-1/#comment-5281 Fri, 17 May 2024 04:37:16 +0000 https://mexiconewsdaily.com/?p=341794#comment-5281 I’ve heard many US expats (immigrants) say they feel safer living in Mexico than the US. Feelings aren’t facts, so I looked into it tonight. I compared homicide numbers of US Citizens in the US vs Mexico.

According to Statista.com, there were 62.33 million US visitors to Mexico in 2021-2022. In your article you mention that 121 US Citizens were murdered udring that time, which means Americans had a .000194% chance of being murdered in Mexico during those 2 years.

I then looked up the FBI statistics for murders in the US. I could not find data for 2022. There were 22,000 in 2020 and 22,900 in 2021. This totals 44,900. According to census.gov, the total population of the US is 331,449,281. This means you had a 0.0135% chance of being murdered in the US during those 2 years.

This means that as a US citizen, you are roughly 70x more likely to be murdered in the United States than in Mexico. And if you don’t live in a Mexican border town, say you live somewhere like Ajijic, you are even safer: your chance of being murdered in Lake Chapala is 218x less likely.

It would seem that perception = reality afterall.

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