Table 2.
Number of additional child marriages projected due to the impact of COVID-19
| Scenario | Country | Excess marriages before age 18 |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Sensitivity | ||
| Unmitigated | Ethiopia | 649,696 | - |
| Unmitigated | India | 688,048 | 1,643,772 |
| Unmitigated | Bangladesh | 232,006 | 605,576 |
| Unmitigated | Nigeria | 1,551,417 | - |
| Unmitigated | Brazil | 428,550 | - |
| Unmitigated | Total | 3,549,717 | 4,879,011 |
| Mitigated | Ethiopia | 373,742 | - |
| Mitigated | India | 195,772 | 816,816 |
| Mitigated | Bangladesh | 84,998 | 330,825 |
| Mitigated | Nigeria | 891,548 | - |
| Mitigated | Brazil | 250,532 | - |
| Mitigated | Total | 1,796,591 | 2,663,463 |