Publication: Child Marriage and Fertility in Bangladesh
Date
2017-06
ISSN
Published
2017-06
Author(s)
Abstract
The relationship between child marriage
and fertility can be due in part to the socio-economic and
cultural context in which girls who marry early tend to
live. But child marriage may also have a direct impact on
fertility after controlling for socio-economic and cultural
context. Marrying early is often associated with a lack of
agency for girls, including in terms of access to family
planning that can help delay or reduce births if women so
desire. For societies, higher total fertility rates lead to
higher population growth, lower growth in gross domestic
product (GDP) per capita, slower poverty reduction, and
difficulties for governments to provide basic services to a
growing population. This brief estimates the impact of child
marriage on the number of children that women have over
their lifetime in Bangladesh, as part of a series of
standardized briefs on this topic for multiple countries.
Citation
“Onagoruwa, Adenike; Wodon, Quentin. 2017. Child Marriage and Fertility in Bangladesh. Health, Nutrition and Population Knowledge Brief;. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28897 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”