We estimate the total number of children in all regions at 1.88 billion, which is equivalent
to about 27 per cent of the global population. If we restrict child abuse to be defined as
severe physical punishment and using the regional averages for countries with missing
data and the overall sample average rate for countries in South Asia (UNICEF, 2014 did not
include a country from this region), we can calculate the number of abused children per
country and region. A total of about 290 million children received severe physical
punishment, this corresponds to about 15.5 per cent of all children