6 Amazing Facts About Girls and Young Women

1. There are 1.8 billion young people in the world. Approximately half of them – 900 million – are adolescent girls and young women.
2. Girls’ primary school completion rates are below 50 per cent in most poor countries.
3. Pregnancy‐ and childbirth‐related complications are the number‐one killers of girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide.
4. One in seven girls in developing countries is married before age 15, and 38 per cent are married before age 18.
5. In sub‐Saharan Africa, more women than men are living with HIV, and young women aged 15–24 years are as much as eight times more likely than men to be HIV positive.
6. Women and girls make up 80 per cent of the estimated 800,000 people trafficked across national borders annuallyi with the majority (79 per cent) trafficked for sexual exploitation.

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