Violence has forcibly displaced people from more than half a million households across Mexico in the past five years, according to new figures released by Mexico's national statistics agency, the first numbers that speak to the depth of what many have described as an invisible internal displacement crisis.
Until now, Mexico's government did not share comprehensive data on people who have been forced to flee their homes due to ongoing violence in many parts of Mexico, leaving civil society groups piecing together information to get a wider view of the problem.
