PRB

Every year, millions of girls in developing countries marry before their 18th birthday. In Egypt, it is one in six girls. Child marriage is a violation of human rights and can cause a lifetime of consequences for girls and their families. In order to address the problem, government agencies, civil society, and research organizations must do more to encourage girls to stay in school and change cultural expectations of this practice. This video is also available in Arabic.

Sources

• Ministry of Health and Population and El-Zanaty and Associates, Egypt Demographic and Health Survey (EDHS) 2014 (Rockville, MD: ICF International, 2014).
• United Nations (UN) Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision (New York: UN, 2015).
• World Health Organization, “Adolescent Pregnancy,” accessed at www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs364/en/, on Aug. 15, 2015.
• Special tabulation of EDHS 2014 by PRB consultant.
• National Population Council – Egypt, “The National Strategy for Prevention of Early Marriage,” accessed at www.npc.gov.eg, on Oct. 17, 2015.