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[Forbes did an exhaustive study on the number of Americans killed in Mexico. The murder rate was 0.5 per 100,000. Of those killed, almost all were involved in buying or selling drugs. Between 40 to 50 million prople visit Mexico each year. Pre COVID it was at the higher end.]

The methodology is suspect. Tourists are there episodically, for days at a time. Expats and traveling businessmen aside, Americans are in the US 99% of the time. Throw that in, and maybe the murder rate is 50 per 100K.

It’s analogous to tree hugger stats claiming that the odds of a large predator attack are lower than that of being murdered. They’re not factoring in the reality that humans come within firearm range of thousands of human strangers daily, whereas probably not even 1 in 100,000 people comes within range of a non-human large predator daily.