Forced Marriage Cases
15 million girls a year marry before the age of 18. That’s approximately 41,000 girls per day, 28 girls every minute or 1 girl every 2 seconds. 720 million women alive today were married before their 18th birthday – this is equivalent to 10% of the world’s population. If there is no reduction in child marriage, 1.2 billion girls will marry as children by 2050 – equivalent to the entire population of India. Nearly 900m people globally have been affected by child marriage. That’s approximately 13% of the world’s population.
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