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Violent death has a different meaning to different stakeholders. Conflict-related deaths and intentional homicides are certainly part of violent deaths, but do not wholly capture the concept. Because of these varying definitions, the consortium approach involves identifying upper bound and lower bound estimates to violent deaths and improving precision (reducing the band between bounds) over time. This brief introduces basic definitions and concepts related to violent death and asks the reader where they would draw the line.
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.