{"id":33485,"date":"2016-10-23T19:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T19:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am?p=33485"},"modified":"2016-10-26T00:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T00:21:32","slug":"10-%d6%83%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf-10-%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%b5%d5%a1-%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%bb%d5%ab%d5%af%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%ab-%d5%b4%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%ab%d5%b6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.womennet.am\/en\/10-%d6%83%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%bf-10-%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%b5%d5%a1-%d5%a1%d5%b2%d5%bb%d5%ab%d5%af%d5%b6%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%ab-%d5%b4%d5%a1%d5%bd%d5%ab%d5%b6\/","title":{"rendered":"10 facts about 10-year-old girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.womennet.amwp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Regional-supplement-RU-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"regional-supplement-ru-1\" \/>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/swop\">The State of World Population 2016&#8243;<\/a> report \u00a0represent \u00a010 facts about 10-year-old girls:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>There are approximately 60 million 10-year-old girls today. About 35 million of them live in countries with high levels of gender inequality.<\/li>\n<li>Investments that empower 10-year-old girls can triple a girl\u2019s lifetime income, increase a nation\u2019s economic growth and lead to a cycle of healthier, better educated children.<\/li>\n<li>Education of girls is the world\u2019s best investment, yet 62 million adolescent girls are not in school today.<\/li>\n<li>Each additional year of a girl\u2019s schooling can translate into a 10 per cent increase in wages later in life.<\/li>\n<li>Every day, an estimated 47,700 girls under 18 are married in developing countries.<\/li>\n<li>16 million girls between ages 6 and 11 will never start school. That\u2019s twice the number of boys.<\/li>\n<li>HIV\/AIDS is the leading cause of death among adolescent girls worldwide. Suicide is the the second-leading cause of death.<\/li>\n<li>An adolescent girl dies as a result of violence every 10 minutes.<\/li>\n<li>10-year-old girls are subjected to countless abuses linked to gender inequality, like child marriage, female genital mutilation, forced or coerced sex, unintended pregnancy, or the denial of education.<\/li>\n<li>Child marriage accounts for up to a third of girls who drop out of secondary school. It also imposes additional costs on society through greater population growth and lower wages for women.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>10 facts from around the world<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>India loses $56 billion a year in potential earnings because of adolescent pregnancy, high secondary school dropout rates and joblessness among young women.<\/li>\n<li>In Asia and the Pacific, at the regional level, there are 111 boys for every 100 girls.<\/li>\n<li>Sub-Saharan Africa hosts 55 per cent of the world\u2019s out-of-school children and 52 per cent of its out-of-school adolescents.<\/li>\n<li>Eliminating child marriage in Niger alone could produce benefits of more than $25 billion from 2014 to 2030.<\/li>\n<li>In West and Central Africa, about eight girls are in secondary school for every 10 boys.<\/li>\n<li>An educated, healthy 10-year-old girl today in Morocco or Costa Rica will have earned about $30,000 more by the time she reaches 25 than a peer who has not completed secondary education and is in poor health.<\/li>\n<li>Latin America and the Caribbean are the only region where more girls go to secondary school than boys.<\/li>\n<li>In Ethiopia, for every 10 boys enrolled in secondary school, only six girls are enrolled.<\/li>\n<li>In some sub-Saharan African countries, girls between 15 and 19 are five times more likely to contract HIV than boys.<\/li>\n<li>In Turkey, there are 653,000 ten-year-old girls. An educated, healthy 10-year-old girl there will have earned about $61,000 more by the time she reaches 25 than a peer who has not completed secondary education and is in poor health.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"newstxt\">&#8220;The State of World Population 2016&#8243; report \u00a0represent \u00a010 facts about 10-year-old girls: &nbsp; There are approximately 60 million 10-year-old girls today. 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