When women and girls earn income, they reinvest 90 percent of it into their families. (World Bank)
Closing the joblessness gap between girls and their male counterparts would yield an increase in GDP of up to 1.2 per cent in a single year. (World Bank)
Investing in girls so that they complete the next level of education would lead to lifetime earnings equivalent to up to 68 percent of annual GDP. (World Bank)
Giving women the same access to non-land resources and services as men reduce the number of hungry people in the world by 100-150 million. (International Fund For Agricultural Development)
Globally, 77.6 million girls are currently not enrolled in either primary or secondary education. (UNESCO)
Around the world, 250 million adolescent girls live in poverty. (Girl Effect)
A single year of primary education correlates with a 10-20 percent increase in women’s wages later in life. (Council on Foreign Relations)
Girls’ education is the best single policy for reducing fertility and therefore achieving smaller and more sustainable families. (Council on Foreign Relations)
Each extra year of a mother’s schooling reduces the probability of an infant dying by 5-10 percent. (UNICEF)
Children of mothers with secondary education or higher are twice as likely to survive beyond age 5 as children of mothers who have no education. (UNICEF)