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As a result of consistency issues between sources and datasets, the current methodologies for monitoring violent deaths can consistently tell us trends within individual data sets, but we cannot say with precision how many people die each year around the world due to violence. The existing approaches to count violent deaths are admittedly imperfect and sometimes only proxy measures exist. This means there is no reliable global picture of violent deaths, which makes it harder to assess overall progress in reducing violence, the first target of SDG 16. We must invest now in the reporting and methodology that will be necessary for monitoring progress toward the goal through 2030. This report was funded by UKAid.
When a violent death occurs, it must be coded through a channel and over multiple stages of coding without error to ultimately be included in a Registry. The 5 x 9 Framework, developed in the Gaps Report, introduces five coding channels, nine stages of coding and a number of errors that can occur in coding, resulting in under- and overcounting.