Author: Plan UK and Royal Commonwealth Society
Publication: 2011
File size: 916 kb
Pages: 18

This report by Plan UK and the Royal Commonwealth Society reveals that New Zealand is the best place in the Commonwealth to be born a girl, while Sierra Leone and Nigeria are among the worst.

’Because You’re a Girl: Growing Up in the Commonwealth’, which has been produced to mark the Commonwealth’s 2011 theme ‘Women as agents of change’, compares how well girls and women are doing relative to boys and men in their country. 

The report uses the best available data on issues from survival - for example life expectancy and nutrition -  to achievement, including numbers of athletes and medals won at the Commonwealth Games and Commonwealth Scholarships attained.