The proportions of girls marrying or having children before the age of 18 have been declining in Uganda according to data from the latest publicly available Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) implemented in 2011. Yet despite progress, more than one third of girls still marry as children, and...

In Bangladesh, more than three in ten children under the age of five are stunted; but for children born of mothers younger than 18, the risk of stunting is higher. controlling for socio-economic and other characteristics, being born of a mother younger than 18 increases the likelihood of stunting...

The relationship between child marriage and fertility can be due in part to the socio-economic and cultural context in which girls who marry early tend to live. But child marriage may also have a direct impact on fertility after controlling for socio-economic and cultural context. Marrying early...

This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Ethiopia. Measures of child marriage remain high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 36.4 percent, but it has declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has...

This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Ghana. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women aged 18-22 who married as children is 17.2 percent and it has declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has also...

This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Guinea. Measures of child marriage are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 51.1 percent, but it has declined over time, but not dramatically so. The share of girls marrying very early, before the ageof 15,...

This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Egypt. Measures of child marriage are very high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 16.5 percent and it has declined over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has also declined....