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Latest items for AOM-DATA-2

Jan. 10, 2025, 10:13 a.m.
Countries: Brunei
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Key gender indicators that are missing or not publicly available include the proportion of people living in extreme poverty; the share of women who were married before 18 years of age; and the percentage of women age 15-49 who have experienced violence by a former husband or partner" (para 20). The lack of a statistic for women married under the age of 18 indicates that either they couldn't be bothered to collect it (general apathy about it) or it was incredibly high and therefore incriminating (MB2-CODER COMMENT).
Jan. 9, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
Countries: Niger
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Three out of four girls in Niger marry before their 18th birthday, the highest rate of child marriage in the world" (para 5).
Dec. 17, 2024, 8:09 p.m.
Countries: Iraq
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"According to the United Nations children’s agency, UNICEF, 28 per cent of girls in Iraq are already married before the age of 18" (para 4). "HRW warned earlier this year that religious leaders in Iraq conduct thousands of unregistered marriages each year, including child marriages, in violation of the current law" (para 19).
Dec. 13, 2024, 3:32 p.m.
Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"There were about 800,000 girls under the age of 18 who were married in Sierra Leone, UNICEF reported in 2020, which is about a third of the girls in the country. Half had been married by the time they turned 15. About 4 percent of boys are wedded by 18, according to Human Rights Watch" (para 3).
Dec. 12, 2024, 1:48 p.m.
Countries: Turkey
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Today, a third of all marriages in the country involve child brides" (para 10).
Dec. 11, 2024, 11:39 p.m.
Countries: Malaysia
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Because these girls live on the fringes of the fringe, accurate statistics on how many live in Malaysia do not exist. But local advocates who work with the girls say they have seen a spike in arrivals over the past two years. 'There are really a lot of Rohingyas coming in to get married,' says Nasha Nik, executive director of the Rohingya Women Development Network, which has worked with hundreds of child brides since it was founded in 2016" (para 20-21).
Dec. 10, 2024, 3:36 p.m.
Countries: Laos
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"In Xieng Khouang, rates of early marriage and pregnancy are high; according to 2017 data, one in four women aged 15 to 19 was married or in a union" (para 6).
Dec. 10, 2024, 3:31 p.m.
Countries: Ghana
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"[A]lthough the numbers of child marriage in the country has been on the decline, it continues to happen in some areas and communities. According to UNICEF data, Ghana is currently home to over two million child brides, with one in five girls aged 20 to 24 years married before the age of 18" (para 24-25).
Dec. 6, 2024, 8:40 p.m.
Countries: Nigeria
Variables: AOM-DATA-2, AFE-LAW-1

"Racheal Bahago comes from Kaduna state in the northern part of Nigeria, where only about 30% of girls attend secondary school, and more than 70% are married before they are 18" (para 16).
Dec. 6, 2024, 6:17 p.m.
Countries: Nepal
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"38 percent of women in the age group of 20-49 were married before the age of 18" (para 6).
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:58 p.m.
Countries: Uganda
Variables: AOM-LAW-1, AOM-DATA-2

"Ugandan law prohibits child marriage, but more than a third of girls are married before 18. In eastern Uganda, the rate is more than 50%. Laws upholding customary and religious marriages for girls under 18 were declared unconstitutional in February" (para 21).
Dec. 6, 2024, 3:50 p.m.
Countries: Malawi
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"More than 40% of girls in the country are married under the age of 18, according to the NGO Girls Not Brides" (para 12).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:34 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"The prevalence of child marriage has declined dramatically throughout the 20th and 21st centuries – but while rare, analysis of official data shows hundreds of children aged under 18 are still married in legally-binding ceremonies every year across the UK" (para 4). "Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows 139 people aged 16 and 17 entered legally-binding opposite-sex marriages in 2019, the latest year with available data. They were among 1,608 teenagers (under 20s) who got married that year. The ONS does not publish data on same-sex child marriages or on civil partnerships. However the figures do show that eight males and 31 females aged under 20 entered...more
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:20 a.m.
Countries: Zimbabwe
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"More girls than boys complete elementary school in Zimbabwe but one in three women were married before they reached 18, according to the United Nations children’s agency" (para 11).
Dec. 6, 2024, 10:03 a.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"'Last year, the national Honour Based Abuse helpline supported 64 cases of child marriage, representing only a small picture of a much bigger problem" (para 9). "The Government's forced marriage unit provided advice or support in 118 cases involving victims aged under 18 in 2021. The Ministry of Justice said the statistics showed forced marriage is more likely to impact girls than boys, with 2018 figures for England and Wales showing that 28 boys married under the age of 18 compared with 119 girls" (para 11-12).
Nov. 16, 2024, 3:52 p.m.
Countries: United States
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"She [State Delegate Kayla Young] said that since 2000 there have been more than 3,600 marriages in the state involving one or more children" (para 3). "Although recent figures are unavailable, according to the Pew Research Center, West Virginia had the highest rate of child marriages among the states in 2014, when the state's five-year average was 7.1 marriages for every 1,000 children ages 15 to 17" (para 11).
Nov. 16, 2024, 2:54 p.m.
Countries: Egypt
Variables: MARR-DATA-1, AOM-DATA-2

"According to the 2017 national census released by the Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics, the total number of women over the age of 18 who could legally get married has reached 27.7m, with 23m women married, including 119,000 girls who have been married before reaching the age of 18. Meanwhile, 18,000 women got married before the age of 16, representing 15% of girls who got married before the legal age of marriage" (para 9-10).
Oct. 9, 2024, 7:59 p.m.
Countries: Belize
Variables: AOM-PRACTICE-1, AOM-DATA-2

"Early marriage and union remain a concern, with as much as one-third of women aged 20–24 years reporting being married or in a union before reaching age 18" (4).
July 26, 2024, 6:17 p.m.
Countries: Benin
Variables: LO-DATA-3, AOM-DATA-2

“Just 13% of women in Benin own land and 30% marry before the age of 18, according to a UN report” (6).
July 19, 2024, 9:09 p.m.
Countries: Sierra Leone
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

“Sierra Leone has 800,000 child brides – and of those more than half were married before the age of 15” (2).
April 30, 2024, 6:12 p.m.
Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"As a deepening humanitarian crisis grips Afghanistan, fueled by a confluence of economic, financial and political shocks worsened by the government’s collapse in August, children such as Zahra are increasingly bearing the brunt of the growing poverty. While there is no comprehensive data available, the United Nations, aid agencies and local officials say they are receiving credible reports of a rise in child marriages and sales of babies for adoptions as Afghans seek ways to cope with their spiraling lives" (para 5).
April 19, 2024, 3:06 p.m.
Countries: Serbia
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"[There is not] a system [established] to track all cases involving child marriage among stateless children, in particular Roma girls" (12). "[A]round 7 per cent of girls marrying before the age of 18" (16).
Jan. 29, 2024, 5:50 p.m.
Countries: Bosnia-Herzegovina
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"There is a high rate of child marriage among the Roma population" (14).
Jan. 19, 2024, 12:06 p.m.
Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: MARR-DATA-2, AOM-DATA-2

"In the Central African Republic, 68 per cent of girls and boys are either married or in a domestic partnership before the age of 18" (23).
Jan. 4, 2024, 10:41 a.m.
Countries: Singapore
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"[M]arriages involving minors are the exception and constitute only 0.1 per cent of Muslim marriages registered in 2020 in Singapore, down from 0.3 per cent in 2016" (43).
Sept. 25, 2023, 8:02 a.m.
Countries: Guyana
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"UNICEF reported that 30 percent of women were married before age 18, and 4 percent of girls were married before age 15" (9).
Sept. 22, 2023, 8:51 a.m.
Countries: Angola
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"7 percent of women aged 20-24 were married or in union by age 15" (20).
Sept. 8, 2023, 1:48 p.m.
Countries: Zimbabwe
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '33.7%.'"
Sept. 8, 2023, 1:47 p.m.
Countries: Zambia
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '29%.'"
Sept. 8, 2023, 1:45 p.m.
Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: AOM-DATA-2

"Women who were first married by age 18 (% of women ages 20-24) is '0%.'"