Women's situation in Somalia

Only quarter of women (24%) in Somalia aged 15-24 are literate.
Only 5% of Somali girls are enrolled in secondary schools.
Female children are more likely to be involved in child labour (54%) compared to their male counterparts (45%).
45% of women are married by the time they are 18 years old (35% urban, 52% rural).
A Somali woman gives birth to an average of 6 children during her life time.
Almost all women aged 15 to 49 years (98%) have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C), of them 77% have undergone the extreme form.
The majority of girls undergo FGM/C between the ages of 5 – 9.
Half of Somali women (49.1%) suffer from Anaemia while over 26% are underweight.
Over 54% of women suffer from Vitamin A deficiency which causes lowered immunity and therefore increased morbidity and mortality.
14 in every 1000 women die due to complications related to child birth.
For women giving birth, case fatality rate due to direct obstetric complications is 21%- 33%.
Only 26% of women were attended during pregnancy at least once by skilled health personnel (doctors, nurses or midwives).
About third (33%) of births are delivered by skilled personnel.
At least 1,520 women were treated for weapon-related wounds in the three main hospitals in Mogadishu in 2010 (approx 6,080 were men)
More than three quarters of married women age 15-49 believe that there are at least some situations in which a husband is justified in beating his wife.
While data on Gender Based violence in Somalia is scarce, most female survivors of sexual violence are reported to be between 13 and 24 years of age.
Only 11.4% of Somali women know that condom can prevent transmission of HIV/AIDS.
According to the Somali tradition of Diya (penalty for wrongly taking someone’s life), those found guilty in the death of a woman must pay only half as much to the aggrieved family as they would if the victim were a man.