2019 Annual Report—Women & Girls Around the World Infographic Sources
Boxes listed clockwise from left
Box 1: 516 million women worldwide are unable to read
International Women’s Day: Equality for Women is Progress for All, UNESCO
Box 2: In countries in engaged in conflict, girls are 2.5x more likely to be out of school
Education Data Highlights, Global Partnership for Education
Box 3: 41,000 child marriages happen daily. Ending this practice would result in billons of dollars of economic benefit worldwide
Girls’ Education, World Bank
Economic impacts of child marriage: global synthesis report, World Bank & International Center for Research on Women
Box 4: Women and girls make up about 50% of refugee populations…yet women outnumber men among internally displaced persons. Internally displaced women are at increased risk of sexual violence and exploitation
Women refugees and migrants, UN Women
Cash and livelihoods: facts and figures, Women’s Refugee Commission
Box 5: Women and girls make up about 60% of the world’s chronically hungry population
Know your world: facts about hunger and poverty, The Hunger Project
Box 6: 15 million primary-school aged age girls will never attend school; 50% of this population is in Sub-Saharan Africa
Girls’ Education, World Bank