UNITED NATIONS: Child marriages are declining - but at a rate that would not eliminate the practice for another 300 years, while a perfect storm of crises could yet reverse the trend, the United Nations childrens' agency said Tuesday (May 2). 'We definitely have made progress in the abandonment of the prac
UNITED NATIONS: Child marriages are declining - but at a rate that would not eliminate the practice for another 300 years, while a perfect storm of crises could yet reverse the trend, the United Nations childrens' agency said Tuesday .
But over the past 25 years the rate at which such marriages take place has been slowing: In 1997, 25 per cent of young women aged 20-24 were married before 18. By 2012 that figure had dropped to 23 per cent, and by 2022 it was at 19 per cent.Slight decline of girls entering childhood marriage globally
COVID-19 alone could be responsible for an additional 10 million underage marriages between 2020 and 2030, it said.
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