Useful sources about Africa

Data on the age at which women in Kenya get married. Survey published by Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 2014.

Data on the experience of gender violence in Kenya. A survey published by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics.

The state of gender violence in Kenya as per a media policy brief published by National Gender and Equality Commission, specifically highlighting the costs to the Kenyan economy.

Direct monetary costs (medical, transportation, arbitration and litigation) as well as the time cost in terms of loss of income and productivity to the survivors, perpetrators and family members of domestic abuse. Published by the National Gender and Equality Commission and available in PDF download.

UNICEF’s database on child marriage in Africa provides statistics, reports, brochures, videos and journal articles on marriage before the age of 18.

This scorecard, developed in 2016 by AIDS Accountability International, gives a brief assessment of child marriage in Africa. The scorecard examines data on reported child marriage prevalence, the minimum age of sexual consent, policies on legal marital age and education budgets across the continent.

UNICEF published the Profile of Child Marriage in Africa report in 2015 shedding light on the realities of child marriage on the continent with well-visualised data.

A gender pay gap calculator for the continent, developed by Code for Africa. The tool uses data from the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report 2017.