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- Recently a demographic survey conducted by the Union Home Ministry.
- As per the data, Jharkhand has the highest percentage of underage girls getting married.
- In Jharkhand, the percentage of girls getting married before turning 18 is as high as 5.8 per cent.
- The percentage of females who got effectively married before reaching 18 years of age is 1.9 at the national level and varies from 0.0 in Kerala to 5.8 in Jharkhand.
- In Jharkhand, child marriages accounted for 7.3 percent of marriages in rural areas and three per cent in urban areas.
- Jharkhand and West Bengal are the only two states in the country where more than half of the women are married before attaining the age of 21 years.
- 54.9 percent of girls are married in West Bengal before attaining the age of 21 years, the figure for Jharkhand is 54.6 percent.
- The national average is 29.5 per cent.
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