Child marriage kills more than 60 girls a day globally and six girls a day in South Asia, as stated in to a new analysis released on the International Day of the Girl Child that asserted over an estimated 22,000 girls a year are dying from pregnancy and childbirth resulting from child marriage. West and Central Africa considered for nearly half (9,600) of all estimated child marriage-related deaths worldwide, according to the study. The region also has the highest rate of child marriages in the world and the highest teenage maternal mortality rate. South Asia is followed by East Asia and Pacific with 650 deaths and Latin America and the Caribbean with 560 annual deaths.
