In less than five months of 2025, under the new administration of Claudia Sheinbaum, more than a thousand Mexican adolescents and young people between the ages of 15 and 19 have disappeared.
This figure represents up to 75% more active cases than in the same period last year, which had already broken the record for the year with the most missing adolescents and young people since 2020, during López Obrador’s second year in office, when the public version of the Ministry of the Interior’s National Registry of Missing and Unlocated Persons was presented.
According to official statistics from that registry, as of May 20 of this year, there were 2,785 missing reports of adolescents and young people between the ages of 15 and 19, of which 1,068 remain active. That is, as of today, there are more than a thousand young people in Mexico who remain unaccounted for.
This figure is almost double that of 2024 and 215% higher than that of 2023, when there were 339 active cases during the same period.
It also represents a 191% increase compared to the same period in 2020, the year of the pandemic (366 cases), and a 252% increase compared to 2019 (303 cases). In fact, the more than a thousand missing young people in these mere five months of 2025 already exceed, for example, all those recorded in 2022 (879).
If this trend continues this year, the record from 2024 will be broken, which in 12 months recorded 1,717 active cases of missing adolescents and young people; 634 more than in 2023, 60% more; and 838 more than in 2022, 96%.
