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Potential criminal liability for children

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Indicator is part of data set(s):
ChildAdolescentHealth
Indicator full name: Age range of children that could be potentially considered criminally liable
Unit: years
Dimensions:
  • Country/Area (COUNTRY/AREA)
  • Age of potential criminal liability (POTENTIAL_CRIMINAL_LIABILITY)
  • Sex (SEX)
  • Year of measure (YEAR)
Years data is available: 2012
Last updated: 06 June 2016
Countries with no data (25): 
  • Albania
  • Andorra
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Belarus
  • Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Georgia
  • Iceland
  • Israel
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Monaco
  • Montenegro
  • North Macedonia
  • Norway
  • Republic of Moldova
  • Russian Federation
  • San Marino
  • Serbia
  • Switzerland
  • Tajikistan
  • Türkiye
  • Turkmenistan
  • Ukraine
  • Uzbekistan
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ChildAdolescentHealth
Child and Adolescent Health
Indicators: 20
Updated: 13 October 2025

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.

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Indicator notes
Source: European Commission, Data on Children in Judicial Proceedings in EU28. Age range at which a child may be considered criminally liable as well. 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.
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