MEXICO CITY.- During 2023 18.4 million Mexicans suffered cyberbullyingthat is, 20.9% of those who had internet service that year, according to the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).
In it Cyberbullying Module (Mociba) 2023 It is reported that just over Two out of 10 Mexicans have internet suffered cyberbullying, most of them in Durango, with 28.8%.
They were followed by the states of Oaxaca and Puebla, with 25.5 and 25%, respectively.
On the contrary, the States with the lowest prevalence of cyberbullying were Guerrero, with 17.4%, and Sinaloa and Mexico City, with 17.6%.
Cyberbullying by state in Mexico, percentage in Yucatan
He national average was 20.9%, a percentage close to that of Yucatan, which had 20.7%.
As for the gendercyberbullying reached 19.6% of menwhich represented a year-on-year increase of five percentage points compared to the same period in 2022.
In women it was 22% which, contrary to men, was a lower incidence by four percentage points in 2023, after being at 22.4% of female users last year.
Cyberbullying data by age in Mexico
By age rangesthe greatest impact occurred in Women aged 12 to 19 and 20 to 29with 30.1% and 30.7% of the incidence; the same as in men, where it occurred in 23% and 23.4%, respectively.
Inegi’s Mociba 2023 reported that 87.9 million Mexicans used the internet through any device during 2023, out of a total of 106.7 million people over 12 years of age registered.
He average internet usage Among 82.4% of Mexicans it was 4.7 hours a day.
Do Mexicans protect themselves from cyberbullying?
Of internet users in Mexico, 73.4% indicated that they adopted some security measure to protect your computer, tablet, smartphone or internet accounts.
Of this percentage, 96.1% said they created or put passwords as your primary security measurewhile 24.3% mentioned installing or updating antivirus, firewall or antispyware programs.
Among other measures adopted by the Mexicans were: blocking pop-up windows in browsers and Change passwords from time to time.
Other measures were Do not enter unknown or unsafe sitesdo not open or save files from unknown sources, as well as avoid posting personal email or numbers on social networks.
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2024-07-27 12:09:01
