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Child Marriage – UNICEF (2017)

  • Child Marriage – UNICEF (2017)

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  • – The source notes that in some instances observations differ from the standard definition or refer to only part of a country.

    – The dates associated to each observation correspond to the end of the survey used as underlying source

  • Entity Year Percentage of women 20-24 who were first married before 18 (UNICEF Global Databases (2016))
    Zimbabwe 2014 34.0
    Cambodia 2014 19.0
    Cuba 2014 26.0
    Democratic Republic of Congo 2014 37.0
    Egypt 2014 17.0
    Zambia 2014 31.0
    Ghana 2014 21.0
    Kenya 2014 23.0
    Kyrgyzstan 2014 12.0
    Malawi 2014 46.0
    Nepal 2014 37.0
    Togo 2014 22.0
    Palestine 2014 15.0
    Peru 2014 19.0
    Samoa 2014 11.0
    Senegal 2014 32.0
    Serbia 2014 3.0
    Vietnam 2014 11.0
    Afghanistan 2013 33.0
    Algeria 2013 3.0
    Bangladesh 2013 52.0
    Turkey 2013 15.0
    Dominican Republic 2013 37.0
    Gambia 2013 30.0
    Indonesia 2013 14.0
    Liberia 2013 36.0
    Madagascar 2013 41.0
    Montenegro 2013 5.0
    Namibia 2013 7.0
    Uruguay 2013 25.0
    Nigeria 2013 43.0
    Pakistan 2013 21.0
    Panama 2013 26.0
    Philippines 2013 15.0
    Sierra Leone 2013 39.0
    Vanuatu 2013 21.0
    Yemen 2013 32.0
    Barbados 2012 11.0
    Belarus 2012 3.0
    Benin 2012 32.0
    Bosnia and Herzegovina 2012 4.0
    Thailand 2012 22.0
    Comoros 2012 32.0
    Congo 2012 33.0
    Cote d'Ivoire 2012 33.0
    Tajikistan 2012 12.0
    Gabon 2012 22.0
    Guinea 2012 52.0
    Haiti 2012 18.0
    Honduras 2012 34.0
    Tonga 2012 6.0
    Jordan 2012 8.0
    Laos 2012 35.0
    Ukraine 2012 9.0
    Moldova 2012 12.0
    Niger 2012 76.0
    Tunisia 2012 2.0
    Qatar 2012 4.0
    Saint Lucia 2012 8.0
    Azerbaijan 2011 11.0
    Belize 2011 26.0
    Cameroon 2011 38.0
    Costa Rica 2011 21.0
    Uganda 2011 40.0
    Equatorial Guinea 2011 30.0
    Ethiopia 2011 41.0
    Iraq 2011 24.0
    Jamaica 2011 8.0
    Kazakhstan 2011 6.0
    Macedonia 2011 7.0
    Mauritania 2011 34.0
    Mozambique 2011 48.0
    Armenia 2010 7.0
    Bhutan 2010 26.0
    Burkina Faso 2010 52.0
    Burundi 2010 20.0
    Central African Republic 2010 68.0
    Chad 2010 68.0
    Colombia 2010 23.0
    Eritrea 2010 41.0
    Georgia 2010 14.0
    Guinea-Bissau 2010 22.0
    Iran 2010 17.0
    Mali 2010 55.0
    Mongolia 2010 5.0
    Tanzania 2010 37.0
    Rwanda 2010 8.0
    Swaziland 2010 7.0
    South Sudan 2010 52.0
    Sudan 2010 33.0
    Suriname 2010 19.0
    Albania 2009 10.0
    Guatemala 2009 30.0
    Guyana 2009 23.0
    Kiribati 2009 20.0
    Lebanon 2009 6.0
    Lesotho 2009 19.0
    Maldives 2009 4.0
    Mexico 2009 23.0
    Timor 2009 19.0

  • Sources

    Data Published By: UNICEF; Data and Analytics Section; Division of Data, Research and Policy

    Data publisher source: DHS, MICS and other nationally representative surveys.

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