Basic Profile of Child Marriage in Mozambique
Measures of child marriage are high in Mozambique. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 51.5 percent and it has increased over time. However the share of women marrying very early, before the age of 15, has declined, but not rap...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26489549/basic-profile-child-marriage-mozambique http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24552 |
| Summary: | Measures of child marriage are high in
Mozambique. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as
children is 51.5 percent and it has increased over time.
However the share of women marrying very early, before the
age of 15, has declined, but not rapidly. Child marriage is
associated with lower wealth, lower education levels, and
higher labor force participation. These are however only
correlations, not necessarily causal effects. In order to
design programs and policies to reduce child marriage,
information is needed on the trend in the practice over
time, where it is most prevalent in a country, and what the
characteristics of girls marrying early are. |
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