Corruption rate in procedures with public servants by state In Mexico 2023

According to a survey, Chihuahua was the Mexican entity with the largest corruption rate during administrative processes. In 2023, the rate of users that experienced corruption when dealing with public servants was 21,891 per 100,000 inhabitants. The national average stood at 13,966 per 100,000 inhabitants. The most frequent act of corruption took place when contacting public security officers.

Corruption rate in procedures with public servants in Mexico in 2023, by federal entity (per 100,00 inhabitants)

Characteristic	Incidence per 100,000 inhabitants
Chihuahua	21,891
Guerrero*	18,279
Tabasco	17,938
Sinaloa	17,728
Quintana Roo	16,954
Oaxaca	16,712
Sonora	16,124
Mexico City	15,739
San Luis Potosí	15,617
Durango	15,322
Tlaxcala	15,242
Baja California	14,644
Jalisco	14,580
National average	13,966
Veracruz	13,705
Morelos	13,679
Nuevo León	13,354
Hidalgo	13,107
Tamaulipas	12,710
Chiapas	12,600
Michoacán de Ocampo	12,597
Querétaro	12,359
Mexico State	12,031
Aguascalientes	11,951
Puebla	11,897
Campeche	11,802
Coahuila de Zaragoza	11,464
Yucatán	11,419
Guanajuato	10,889
Baja California Sur	10,522
Colima	10,262
Nayarit	9,460
Zacatecas	8,912

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Release date

March 2024

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Region

Mexico

Survey time period

October 30th to December 15th, 2023

Number of respondents

46,000 households

Age group

18 years or older

Special properties

Only private households in urban areas of 100,000 inhabitants or more

Supplementary notes

The rate makes reference to users that had contact with public servants and experienced any form of corruption in at least one of the procedures,
*Based on the coefficient of variation, the precision of these estimates is moderate.

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