A 2017 World Bank/ICRW study estimated that ending child marriage in Niger could save the country more than $188 million but the practice persists largely due to poverty, low level of education ...

Among the four countries in our study, Niger has the highest child marriage prevalence worldwide—76% of girls are married before the age of 18. The rates stand at 52% in Mali, 42% in Malawi, and ...

Niger. Niger has had the highest child marriage rate in the world for the past 20 years, with 76% of women aged 20 to 24 getting married before turning 18, and up to 28% getting married by the age ...

The 10 hotspots where the child marriage/climate crisis risk is the greatest are the Central African Republic, Chad, Guinea, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and South Sudan.

A 2017 World Bank study suggests that ending child marriage in Niger could save the country more than $25bn (£19bn) by 2030. Worldwide, the cumulative costs of child marriage between 2014 and ...

Niger's Military Coup Triggers Child Marriages, Sex Work in Neighboring Countries. 26 April 2024. Inter Press Service ... and rising insecurity in their home country, Niger, ...

Niger, on the other hand, has the highest incidence of child marriages globally, with 76% of girls married before the age of 18. Extreme poverty levels are likely to be a major factor accounting ...

In Niger, for example, where the age of legal marriage for girls is 15, 76 per cent of girls are believed to be married before their 18th birthday. And some countries only permit marriage among ...

Child marriage makes a victim of the girl-child, robs her of her destiny, ruptures her health, and in a lot of cases leads to her early death. It denies the family, society and posterity of her ...

Thousands of Nigerian Girls 'Saved' From Child Marriages. Published September 9th, 2022 - 06:15 GMT (Shutterstock/ File Photo) ...

Niger has long been billed as the country with the highest rate of child marriage in the world, so it’s not hard to find someone with direct experience of it. Fati Hama, a 57-year-old selling ...