Different Faces of Disparities The poorest children are those more often stunted
More than one third of women in the world marry during childhood, with one in nine of them being married before their 15th birthday
Percentage of children under age 5 who are moderately or severely stunted by selected regions, LDCs and the world1 Poorest 20%
Poorer 20%
Middle 20%
Richer 20%
Percentage of women aged 20-24 years old who were first married or in union before age 18 and before age 15, in the 15 countries with the highest prevalence of child marriage among women and the world2
Richest 20% (%)
(%) 70
100 100 100
59
80 80 80
53
50
48 46 42
40
43 40
36
51
49 46 42
47
36
25
50 50 50
35
27
25
30 30 30
20
45 45
10 10 10 South Asia
East Asia and the Pacific*
Least developed countries
0 0 0
World*
* Excluding China Note: Analysis is based on a subset of countries with available data by subnational groupings and regional estimates are presented only where adequate coverage is met. Data from 2007 to 2011, except for Brazil and India
3rd
52 52
52 52
4th
26
29
20 20
18 18
8 8
39
38 34 43
34 34
41 34
38
37
18 18
39
56 56
43
41
32 32 21 21
14 14
12 12
9 9
10 10
36 36 29 29
29 29
23
20 20
15 15
11 11
Percentage of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years who have undergone FGM/C in the ethnic groups with the highest and lowest FGM/C prevalence4
Richest 6 1
55 55
Levels of female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) prevalence vary dramatically among ethnic groups
Southern Asia: Sanitation coverage trends by wealth quintiles, based on population-weighted averages from three countries, 1995 and 20083 2nd
50 50
* Excludes China
The poorest 40 percent of the population in Southern Asia have barely benefited from improvements in sanitation
Poorest
48 48
66 66
68 68
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Sub-Saharan Africa
47 47
35 27
20 20 20
10
(%) 100 100
44 44
47 47
40 40 40
26 23
20
63 63
60 60 60
41
32
30
70 70 70
46
38
75 75 68 68
WW or or ld ld * *
60
0
Married or in union at age 15 or after but before age 18 #REF! #REF! #REF! Married #REF! or in union before age 15
90 90 90
Eritrea 2 4
18
Ethiopia Guinea Mali Gambia
80 80 51
6
Kenya
56 74
60 60
86
Guinea-Bissau Chad
77
Sierra Leone
87
94
Burkina Faso
4 93
40 40
94
Senegal C么te d'Ivoire
76
8
Benin Niger 8
20 20
00
4
45
Nigeria
36
4 2 1995
7
5
7
8
Central African Republic 18
2008 1995
19
Ghana Togo
2008 1995
2008 1995
2008 1995
2008
Ethnic group with the higest prevalence Ethnic group with the lowest prevalence
Cameroon Uganda
Improved + shared
Unimproved
Open defecation
0 0
10 10
20 20
30 30
40 40
50 50
Source: Adapted from Improving Child Malnutrition: The achievable imperative for global progress, based on UNICEF Global Databases, 2012. Sources: UNICEF global databases, 2012. Based on AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS), DHS, MICS and other national surveys, 2002-2011. Sources: India: NFHS 1993, 1999, 2006; Bangladesh: DHS 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, 2007; Nepal: DHS 1996, 2001, 2006 4 Sources: MICS and DHS 2002-1011 as presented in Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: A statistical overview and exploration of the dynamics of change, UNICEF, 2013. 1 2 3
60 60
70 70
80 80
90 90
100 (%) 100