Enhancing Accountability in Tackling Early and Forced Marriages in Vulnerable Communities

Malawi is ranked eighth of the 20 countries that are considered to have the highest rates of child marriage by the UN Population Fund (UNFPA). On average one out of two girls in Malawi will be married by their eighteenth birthday according to the United Nations. In 2010, half of the women (50 percent) aged 20–24 years were married or in union before age 18 (compared to 6.4 percent of boys). Data shows little to no change in child marriage prevalence since 2000 where it stood at 47 percent.