Thus, from 2016 to June of last year, 7,752 children and adolescents between the ages of 0 and 17 had lost their lives due to injuries caused intentionally. The states that registered the highest absolute amounts in this period are the State of Mexico, with 943 victims; Guanajuato, with 856; Chihuahua, with 581; Guerrero, with 525; Michoacán, with 465, and Jalisco, with 437.
He cites the index in another of his sections:
“In order to carry out an appropriate comparison, the mortality rate due to intentional homicide was estimated for the age group of 0 to 17 years using the population projections of Conapo for the period 2016-2020. In this way, it was obtained that the national average was 3.6 murders per 100 thousand (people) in the age group.
“In order to measure what this figure represents, it is enough to point out that the homicide rate for children under 18 years of age is 2.76 times higher than the average rate of femicide for the same period, which, according to data from the Executive Secretariat of the System National Public Security is 1.3 victims for every 100 thousand women. This comparison is relevant because, in absolute numbers, the daily average of femicides is approximately three victims, while that of girls, boys and adolescents is 3.9”.
Mario Luis Fuentes and Saúl Arellano, professors at UNAM, are convinced of the need not to succumb to the repeated eagerness to compare and reduce data to rates and percentages because when talking about human existence, each number implies a world; each number contains infinite possibilities of life. For this reason, denouncing the magnitude of the violent death that is perpetrated against children and adolescents becomes an imperative that must be above any statistical methodology.
In educational matters, the index maintains that, according to the school trajectory analysis model followed in Mexico, only 26 of every 100 students manage to graduate from higher education. On the other hand, as a result of the pandemic, there is a brutal impact in terms of learning loss, educational lag, school dropout, and a decrease in skills and competencies for the future.
