How common is child marriage in Pakistan?
UNICEF defines child marriage as marriage or union before age 18 and reports that Pakistan is home to more than 19 million women who were married as children. Its country p...
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What percentage of Pakistani women aged 20–24 married before 18?
The survey-derived 2018 indicator reports that 18.3% of Pakistani women aged 20–24 had first married or entered a union before age 18. Using women aged 20–24 ensures every...
How common is marriage before 15 compared with marriage before 18?
Among Pakistani women aged 20–24 in the 2017–18 survey data, about 3.6% had married before age 15 and 18.3% before age 18. The second figure includes the first group, so th...
Is child marriage linked to education level in Pakistan?
Yes, child marriage is strongly associated with education level in Pakistan’s survey profiles: prevalence is substantially higher among women with less education and much l...
Is child marriage more common in poorer households?
Child marriage is more prevalent in poorer household groups than in wealthier groups in the cited profiles. Household resources can affect school continuation, economic sec...
Why do child-marriage rates vary across Pakistan’s regions?
Child-marriage rates vary because education, household wealth, rural access, local institutions, and social conditions are distributed unevenly across Pakistan. Survey prof...
Why do child-marriage figures change with the age group and survey year?
The standard prevalence indicator usually asks what share of women aged 20–24 married before age 18. That cohort has completed exposure to the threshold, while a group of c...
Where does the World Bank’s Pakistan child-marriage data come from?
The World Bank indicator page republishes a harmonized series sourced through UNICEF and DHS data systems rather than collecting a separate Pakistani marriage survey. For t...
How common is labour-force participation among married women in Pakistan?
World Bank research describes married women’s labour-force participation as persistently low, around the high teens during the studied period, with substantial variation by...
How does marriage affect women's mobility in Pakistan according to research?
Marriage can change where women live, who is consulted about travel and how care duties constrain time outside the home, but Pakistan lacks a national before-and-after…
How does marriage affect men's and women's employment differently?
The 2017–18 Pakistan DHS recorded a stark employment gap among currently married respondents: 19% of women had worked at some point in the previous 12 months, compared with…
Does living in a joint family affect married women's employment?
Joint-family living can affect women’s employment in opposite directions. Other adults may share childcare and housework, making paid work easier, or senior relatives and…