About what share of girls worldwide are married before turning 18?
Answerabout 1 in 5 (roughly 20%)
UNICEF and partner programs have reached over 21 million adolescent girls since 2016 to help address this.
Source: UNICEF (2023) unicef.org
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In India's 2011 census, about how many girls were counted for every 1,000 boys under age 6?
Answer918
That ratio had actually fallen from 927 girls per 1,000 boys in the 2001 census.
Source: Wikipedia (Girl) (2011) en.wikipedia.org
About how many female college students were enrolled in the U.S. in fall 2022?
Answerabout 11.0 million
That compares to about 8.0 million male college students the same year.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics (2022) nces.ed.gov
In Arab countries, girls make up about what share of children who are out of school?
Answerabout 60%
In South and West Asia the imbalance is even larger, with girls making up about 66% of children not attending school.
Source: Wikipedia (Girl), citing UNESCO/UNICEF data (2015) en.wikipedia.org
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