Defining and deconstructing girl child marriage and applications to global public health

BMC Public Health

Table 1 20 countries with the highest prevalence of girl child marriage among 20 to 24-year-old women^a

Country	Married by 15 (%)	Married by 18 (%)
Niger	28	76
Central African Republic	29	68
Chad	30	67
Bangladesh	22	59
Burkina Faso	10	52
Mali	17	52
South Sudan	9	52
Guinea	19	51
Mozambique	14	48
Somalia	8	45
Nigeria	18	44
Malawi	9	42
Madagascar	12	41
Eritrea	13	41
Ethiopia	14	40
Uganda	10	40
Nepal	7	40
Sierra Leone	13	39
Democratic Republic of the Congo	10	37
Mauritania	18	37

^a Percentages are reported in the March 2018 update of the UNICEF Global Databases for Child Marriage

ISSN: 1471-2458