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World Bank data covers 53 African countries in 2017. According to these figures South African women have the highest unemployment rate at 30.45%, followed by women in Lesotho with an unemployment rate of 30.08%, Gabon with 27.44%, Libya with 27.16% and Swaziland with 27.03%.

An estimated 5.7 out of every 100,000 women and girls were killed in Nigeria in 2016. This internationally comparable rate for deaths from interpersonal violence is more than twice the global average of 2.6.

 

More: Five facts: Femicide in South Africa

The World Bank has data on the percentage of women aged 15 to 49 who have gone through female genital mutilation. This is defined as the “partial or total removal of the female external genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons”. The bank…

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, there is “no commonly agreed definition of what constitutes ‘femicide’”. It has historically been defined as the killing of women and girls because they are female. 

Collecting data on the motive for a killing can be difficult. Because of this,…

Unicef estimates that 40% of women in sub-Saharan Africa were married as children. Some of the red flag countries are Niger, the Central African Republic and Chad.