USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Nearly 650 million women alive today became brides before they turned 18 years old – some even before age 10 – and an additional 12 million girls are expected to be married each year. Child marriage is a human rights violation that deprives girls of their education, health and security.

Detailed explanation-2: -"The percentage of women married before 18 years has decreased by 2.8 points in urban India from 17.5% to 14.7% over the last five years.

Detailed explanation-3: -An average of 40, 000 children and young women under the age of 18 are married every day. This is around 15 million each year. More than 60% of child brides in developing countries have no formal education. Today, there are more than 700 million women alive who were married before their 18th birthday.

Detailed explanation-4: -27% of girls in India are married before their 18th birthday and 7% are married before the age of 15.