Bangladesh ranks 111th in providing opportunity to girls

Bangladesh has been placed at 111 on the Girls’ Opportunity Index, a report published by Save the Children.

Child marriage, education, teenage pregnancy, maternal deaths and number of female representatives in national government are the five indicators used to rank a country in this index.

Bangladesh has been placed in the lowest strata alongside Afghanistan.

Girls in Niger happen to face the biggest struggles, according to the index while Sweden provides their girls with the best opportunities.

Save the Children prepared the 40-page report after spending a year collecting data from 144 countries.

The report, published on Monday, says that one girl under the age of 15 is married every 7 seconds.

Save the Children CEO Carolyn Miles says that a third of Bangladeshi girls are married off before they are 18.

She told Newsweek that child marriage starts a cycle of disadvantage that denies girls the opportunity to learn, develop and enjoy childhood, according to a news agency.