Region wise Prevalence and Causes of Early Marriage: A Review Article

Abstract

Early marriage is a global concern. Early marriage refers to marriage before 28 years of which is quite common among developing and poor countries. This review based article provides an insight to the region wise prevalence of early marriage and numerous causes of early marriage whereby a detailed literature has been searched for this purpose. The article has been arranged into two parts; first, Region wise prevalence of early marriage across the world; and secondly, causes of early marriage.