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In 2018, the number of girls and women married in childhood in Nigeria stood at 22 million, according to the most recent data from UNICEF. The population of Nigeria stood at just under 196 million (195,874,685) which amounts to an incidence rate of 11,232 child brides per 100,000 people. ...

In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, a total of 13,815 women over the age of 18 were murdered, according to the South African Police Service. That’s an average of 2,763 murders a year, or about seven women a day. ​​Compared with other countries where stats are available, South A...

According to the most recent figures by the World Bank, Sudanese women had the highest unemployment rate in Africa in 2020 at 31.2%, followed by women in South Africa with an unemployment rate of 31.1%, Gabon with 29.8%, Eswatini with 27.4% and Botswana with 25.7%. ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded 36,330 rapes in 2020/21. The rape rate – calculated based on the national mid-year population estimates (60.14 million in 2021) – was 60.41 per 100,000 population, a slight decrease from the rate in 2019/20 which was 71.6 per 100,000 people. ...

The UN estimates that 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), with 80% (160 million) occurring in Africa. ...

As of 2021, some 20% of girls and women aged 15 to 49 years have undergone female genital mutilation, according to Unicef data. ...

The South African Police Service (SAPS) recorded 53,293 sexual offences in 2019/2020, of which there were 7,749 sexual assaults. ...

According to the most recent data from the World Bank, in 2020 there were just over 27 million (27,052,773) women in Kenya. ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with six of the world’s 10 countries where the practice is most common situated in West and Central Africa, including Niger, the Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea. In all six of these count...