This brief has provided a basic profile of child marriage in Burkina Faso. Measures of child marriage are high. The share of women ages 18-22 who married as children is 49.8 percent and it has not declined substantially over time. The share of girls marrying very early, before the age of 15, has also not changed much (it has increased slightly versus 25 years ago). Child marriage is associated with lower wealth, lower education levels, and higher...
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2016/03/01
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Basic profile of child marriage in Burkina Faso
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Child Marriage
Citation
Malé, Chata; Wodon,Quentin T..
Basic profile of child marriage in Burkina Faso (English). Health, nutrition, and population (HNP) knowledge brief : child marriage series Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/595371468194959538