Share of population living in countries with a national ban on corporal punishment of children (home, schools, and alternative care)

This statistic estimates how much of the world’s population lives under national laws that fully prohibit corporal punishment of children across key settings (including the home, schools, and alternative care). It is a useful lens on child-rights protections because legal bans are strongly associated with lower social acceptance and use of physical punishment over time.

The underlying country-level data come from the Global Initiative to End All Corporal Punishment of Children (which tracks legal status by country and territory). To create a population-weighted global picture, each country is coded as 1 if it has a full prohibition in all settings and 0 otherwise, then weighted by total population using the UN World Population Prospects population estimates for the year.