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Table 1 Bride Price

From: Associations between bride price stress and intimate partner violence amongst pregnant women in Timor-Leste

Country where bride price is practiced

Population (total)

Population (women)

Poverty index

Bride Price (Net assets move from groom’s family to bride’s family) by Country and Poverty Index by Country

 Afghanistan

31,411,743

15,160,172

15.8

 Algeria

35,468,208

17,567,864

22.6

 Angola

19,081,912

9,632,075

36.6

 Bahrain

1,261,835

473,999

N/A

 Bangladesh

148,692,131

73,383,331

22

 Botswana

2,006,945

995,092

19.3

 Brunei

398,920

197,358

N/A

 Burkina Faso

16,468,714

8,296,443

9.7

 Burundi

8,382,849

4,269,467

66.9

 Cambodia

14,138,255

7,221,673

30.1

 Cameroon

19,598,889

9,816,338

39.9

 Central African Republic

4,401,051

2,233,189

62.0

 Chad

11,227,208

5,644,877

46.7

 China

1,341,335,152

644,994,400

N/A

 Democratic Rep. of the Congo

65,965,795

33,157,496

71.3

 Republic of the Congo

4,042,899

2,019,306

46.5

 Djibouti

888,716

444,166

N/A

 East Timor

1,124,355

551,191

49.9

 Egypt

81,121,077

40,387,475

25.2

 Equatorial Guinea

700,401

341,408

76.8

 Eritrea

5,253,676

2,666,033

69.0

 Ethiopia

82,949,541

41,667,964

38.9

 Gabon

1,505,463

750,454

32.7

 Gambia

1,728,394

874,877

48.4

 Guinea

9,981,590

4,937,969

55.2

 Guinea-Bissau

1,515,224

764,258

69.3

 Hong Kong

7,053,189

3,711,339

N/A

 India

1,224,614,327

592,067,546

22.0

 Indonesia

239,870,937

120,248,498

12.5

 Iran

73,973,630

36,432,408

N/A

 Iraq

31,671,591

15,784,742

22.9

 Ivory Coast (Cote D’Ivoire)

19,737,800

9,680,280

42.7

 Jordan

6,187,227

3,004,996

14.4

 Kazakhstan

16,026,367

8,331,739

8.2

 Kenya

40,512,682

20,278,981

45.9

 Kuwait

2,736,732

1,103,460

N/A

 Kyrgyzstan

5,334,223

2,702,477

33.7

 Laos

6,200,894

3,107,050

27.6

 Lebanon

4,227,597

2,163,457

N/A

 Lesotho

2,171,318

1,104,192

56.6

 Liberia

3,994,122

1,987,469

63.8

 Libya

6,355,112

3,132,342

N/A

 Madagascar

20,713,819

10,388,280

75.3

 Malawi

14,900,841

7,446,051

50.7

 Malaysia

28,401,017

13,993,650

3.8

 Mali

15,369,809

7,691,028

43.6

 Mauritania

3,459,773

1,721,146

42

 Morocco

32,481,912

16,532,592

9

 Mozambique

23,390,765

12,010,341

54.7

 Myanmar

47,963,012

24,323,127

N/A

 Namibia

2,283,289

1,149,298

28.7

 Nepal

29,959,364

15,097,145

25.2

 Niger

15,511,953

7,710,241

59.5

 Nigeria

158,423,182

78,222,179

46

 Oman

2,782,435

1,148,710

N/A

 Pakistan

173,593,383

85,356,405

17.2

 Papua New Guinea

6,858,266

3,359,979

39.9

 Qatar

1,758,793

427,853

N/A

 Rwanda

10,624,005

5,408,996

44.9

 Saudi Arabia

27,448,086

12,251,954

N/A

 Senegal

12,433,728

6,266,846

46.7

 Sierra Leone

5,867,536

3,001,444

52.9

 Singapore

5,086,418

2,521,975

N/A

 Solomon Islands

538,148

259,909

3.2

 Somalia

9,330,872

4,703,761

N/A

 South Africa

50,132,817

25,308,517

23

 South Sudan

13,024,734

6,462,444

50.6

 Sri Lanka

20,859,949

10,560,835

8.9

 Sudan

43,551,941

21,609,210

46.5

 Swaziland

1,186,056

603,061

63

 Syria

20,410,606

10,080,745

N/A

 Taiwan

23,216,236

11,468,433

N/A

 Tajikistan

6,878,637

3,493,864

46.7

 Tanzania

44,841,226

22,443,881

28.2

 Thailand

69,122,234

35,149,886

13.2

 Togo

6,027,798

3,042,605

58.7

 Trinidad and Tobago

1,341,465

691,380

N/A

 Tunisia

10,480,934

5,240,866

15.5

 Turkey

72,752,325

36,467,075

18.1

 Turkmenistan

5,041,995

2,559,364

N/A

 Turks and Caicos Islands

36,196

17,174

N/A

 Ganda

33,424,683

16,721,224

24.5

 United Arab Emirates

7,511,690

2,288,096

N/A

 Uzbekistan

27,444,702

13,803,958

16

 Vanuatu

239,651

117,573

N/A

 Vietnam

87,848,445

44,430,545

17.2

 Yemen

24,052,514

11,948,920

8.9

 Zambia

13,088,570

6,529,515

59.3

 Zimbabwe

12,571,454

6,374,259

72.3

Total

4,644,257,765

2,184,975,205

 
  1. Sources & References
  2. UN Statistics Division, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. “World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision”. www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/publications/pdf/trends/
  3. World Bank Poverty Index: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SI.POV.NAGP
  4. “South Sudan population literacy” is based on the latest data published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (retrieved March 13, 2016)
  5. The estimation data for section “Turks and Caicos Islands age structure” is based on the latest demographic and social statistics by United Nations Statistics Division N/A: Not Available