A quarter of women in the world were child brides.

Published On: August 19, 2017 12:03 AM NPT By: Republica  | @RepublicaNepal


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Over one quarter of women in the world have been child brides. This depressing statistic was announced by Unicef, who surveyed women aged between 20 and 24 in 122 countries, covering 79 percent of the global population of women. The results reveal the drastic scale of child marriage around the globe. 

Such practices were found to be most prevalent in South Asia, where 44 percent of women surveyed had been a child bride - 17 percent were under the age of 15 at the time. 

At the current rate, girlsnotbrides.org estimates that there will be an additional 1.2 billion girls married globally by 2050. 


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