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Data set notes
Child and Adolescent Health

Indicators: 20
Updated: 15 October 2024

The WHO Europe Child and Adolescent Health Database (CAHD) provides a set of statistics based on indicators related to the health and well-being of children and adolescents. The statistics were collated from a variety of databases as a joint effort between WHO program divisions and collaborating centres and partners. The database was constructed for the purpose of supporting the Child and Adolescent Health and Development Strategy (2015), providing the relevant information for monitoring progress on child and adolescent health indicators in the 53 member states of the WHO European Region.

Indicator notes
Source: European Commission, Data on Children in Judicial Proceedings in EU28. Age at which a child is held criminally responsible within a given country. For further information, please refer to http://www.childreninjudicialproceedings.eu/Home/Default.aspx.
Country/Area notes
United Kingdom
The values of Minimum age of criminal responsibility for UK reflects England, Wales and North Ireland. Scotland Minimum age of criminal responsibility is 8 years old.