Latest source-dated evidence
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What the available evidence suggests
The regional homicide average is almost three times the current global rate in the same source family. Consumption-based CO₂ per person is below the global figure. The child-employment observations are too old and incomplete for a current regional claim.
The most important limitation
A regional average can conceal concentrated violence and cross-country differences. The page reports coverage rather than presenting the mean as universal.
A regional average leaves questions open
The latest homicide mean is 14.88 per 100,000 from ten of the twelve countries in the group, or about 83.3% country coverage. Each observed country has the same weight in the site’s arithmetic mean. A small country therefore has as much influence on this mean as a large one; it is not the region’s population-level homicide rate.
The child-employment series is older and narrower: its latest available year is 2015, covering five of twelve countries, about 41.7%. That sample cannot be treated as a current estimate. The next useful briefing should show the individual contributing observations and compare like-for-like years, rather than using a high regional average to describe every resident’s circumstances.
Interpretation added 13 September 2026 using the dated snapshot above and, where named, the linked country profiles. Calculations are illustrative comparisons of those published values; underlying observations have not been refreshed in this edit.
How to read this profile
- Compare values only when units and definitions match.
- Keep the observation year beside every claim.
- Treat expert-coded expression data differently from administrative death statistics.
- Read consumption-based carbon in its original physical unit, independently of the other indicators.
- Never convert missing data into zero.
Source map
| Signal | Source | Interpretation boundary |
|---|---|---|
| Suicide mortality | WHO via World Bank | Modelled population rate; reporting quality varies |
| Intentional homicide | UNODC via World Bank | Reported criminal homicide; coverage varies |
| Expression pressure | V-Dem via OWID | Expert-coded index transformed as (1 − value) × 100 |
| Child labour | ILO and UNICEF | Global and regional estimates cannot fill every country gap |
| Consumption CO₂ | Global Carbon Budget via OWID | Tonnes per person; interpreted separately |
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