Great website with stats about true status of adolescent girls all over the world.

[SkaterGrrrrl]

May come in useful when debating with certain trolls! :)

www.girlsdiscovered.org

oh wow. bookmarking that to explore later, thanks

Pregnancy and childbirth related complications are the number?one killers of girls aged 15 to 19 worldwide!!

One in every nine girls will be married before her 15th birthday. In the next decade, 14.2 million girls under 18 will be married every year.

How sad.

15% of girls (15-24) globally are living with HIV.

Shocking.

Useful facts to have onhand next time the "women don't have it so bad" brigade starts up.

Thanks for sharing! 2/3rds of child trafficking victims are girls too.

There's a handy pdf to bookmark here: www.girlsdiscovered.org/media/v_girls_count-20140912_134102/girls_count/pdf/Girls_Discovered_Facts_Final.pdf

Thanks for this OP. It is very useful.

It is a very useful site and I applaud its objectives.

However, I would be careful about citing this site as a reliable source in a serious discussion. Not because I doubt the sincerity of the site holders, just that it obviously has an agenda (albeit one that we hope all would support)

Instead, look to the sources of their data. I'm sure they will be there.

partial don't you think that's a tad condescending?

Do you have anything to say about the data or are you just concerned that posters on the thread don't know how to use data?

partial don't you think that's a tad condescending?

No.

People are always bringing statistics out of unreliable sources on this site and many others (viz MailOnline)

Maybe not 'always', but it happens regularly.

Stats need to be cited.

I took a look and the sources look pretty reliable. For instance, HIV statistics come from UNICEF and UNAIDS...

marilug Thank you.

That is good to know.

It looks to me like that HIV figure isn't accurately reported. The figures here (from UNAIDS) give global prevalence of HIV/AIDS in young women as 0.4%.

It's a great site apart from that though!

I think that must be a typo. According to UNAIDS, 15% of women living with HIV are girls 15-24: www.unaids.org/sites/default/files/en/media/unaids/contentassets/documents/unaidspublication/2014/UNAIDS_Gap_report_en.pdf

I'll send them a message and let them know so they can fix it. Other than that it's a great resource!

This isn't MailOnline. Just to be clear, your post did come over as condescending. It's really not necessary to pop onto a thread just to remind people to check their sources. If you had an issue with the data, that would be different.

Thanks for sharing this SkaterGrrrrl! great find :) I just showed this to my hubby and we both think the maps are are actually really useful. I'm shocked by these statistics showing the birth rates before age 18!

and I had a closer look at the data and it seems reliable, this map shows that the data is from UNICEF and was updated in August 2014!

To Flora Fox

This isn't MailOnline. I didn't suggest it was!! Just that people sometimes refer to it.

I am sorry if you felt I was condescending.

But I was afraid of this is a type of bollocks!

" if every rapist commits an average of ten rapes (a horrifying number, isn’t it?) then the concentration of rapists in the population is still a little over one in sixty. That means four in my graduating class in high school."

kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-schrodinger%E2%80%99s-rapist-or-a-guy%E2%80%99s-guide-to-approaching-strange-women-without-being-maced/

This is from a guest blogger on MN

Flora, would you be happy to accept stats on MN blogs? Or would you check them?

Would you be happy if others had used them? Would you check them.

Would you have checked the data that I quoted from an MN blog?

It is condescending to suggest to a group of people you don't know that you have a better grasp of how to use data than they do.

You used the fact that people do this on the MailOnline to justify what you said here. When the Mail is referred to here it is usually disparagingly.

What does that blog have to do with what is on this thread? Just because a woman with a MN blog uses data in a way you don't like, doesn't mean the posters on this thread are going to do the same (if it wasn't for you rushing in with your pearls of wisdom).

Maybe it's time to stop digging.

Hole. JFC.

Flora, did you check my links?

Did you notice that the stats quoted didn't actually work?

(i.e the two events were not independent)

Partial, did you click onto the site and through to the sources before you posted?