Educating adolescent girls is a critical factor in increasing the age of marriage in developing countries.
Adolescent girls and women aged 15 to 24 make up 75 percent of youth infected with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.
Girls who marry before 18 are more likely to experience domestic violence than their peers who marry later.
Pregnancy is the leading cause of death worldwide for adolescent girls aged 15 to 19.
If present trends continue, 142 million girls will marry over the next decade. That’s over 38,000 girls married every day for the next 10 years.
