Child Marriage
Twelve million girls are married before eighteen every year.
Severity score
38.0
Serious · default weighting
Trajectory
Improving
What this is
Child marriage ends education, raises maternal mortality risk and entrenches poverty across generations. Rates fall slowly and reverse during crises, when families use marriage as an economic coping strategy.
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
26Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
84People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
32Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
1Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
26Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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