The State of the World’s Girls
The State of the World Girls is a series of research reports released every year for the International Day of the Girl.
This research series seeks to raise the voices of girls and young women across the globe. Each report celebrates the power and potential of girls while highlighting the barriers they face.
The State of the World’s Girls reports have supported two strategic campaigns – Because I am a Girl (2012 – 2017), and Girls Get Equal (2017- 2024).
Each year the research is informed by adolescent girls and youth activists, in all their diversity, across the globe. This ensures the campaign is evidence-based and focuses on the issues that matter most to girls and young women.
The series is an organisation-wide effort to energise the global girls’ rights movements, drive forward the girls’ rights agenda and maximise impact against our global advocacy strategy.
Let me be a child not a wife
Girls’ experiences of living through child marriage
This year’s State of the World’s Girls Report centres on the voices of 251 girls and young women across 15 countries who were married as children. Their stories reveal the realities behind child marriage and the urgent need for change.
State of the World's Girls 2024: Still We Dream
This State of the World’s Girls Report focuses on the experiences of young people whose lives are dominated by conflict.
State of the World's Girls 2023: Turning the World Around
Insight from over 1000 participants into what it's like to be a girl or young woman activist leading the fight for equality today!
State of the World's Girls 2022: Equal Power Now
Hear from 29,000 girls and young women from 29 countries as they navigate the political landscape.
State of the World's Girls 2021: The Truth Gap
How girls and young women deal with misinformation and disinformation when engaging with political, civic or social topics online.
State of the World's Girls 2020: Free to Be Online?
A report on girls' and young women's experiences of online harassment.
State of the World's Girls 2019: Rewrite Her Story
How film and media stereotypes affect the lives and leadership ambitions of girls and young women.
State of the World's Girls 2018: Unsafe in the City
Thousands of girls and young women share their stories of harassment and violence, showing their experiences of city life and the impact on their lives.
State of the World's Girls 2017: Unlock the Power of Girls Now
Why gender equality is THE social and political issue of our time.
State of the World's Girls 2016: Counting the Invisible
Reports from Plan International reveal how improving the data we have about girls will help create a just world and equality for all.
The State of the World's Girls 2015: Unfinished Business
Bringing together prominent contributors from all over the world who hail the progress made in realising girls’ rights, but lament girls' huge challenges.
The State of the World’s Girls 2014: Pathways to Power
What will shift the unequal power relations that bolster gender discrimination, injustice and inequality for girls and women in every country in the world?
The State of the World's Girls 2013: Adolescent Girls and Disasters
Adolescent girls’ rights are being ignored before, during and after disasters, both in the urgency of disaster response, and in the gaps between humanitarian…
The State of the World's Girls 2012: Learning for Life
Acritical look at the state of girls’ education. Behind the success of global parity in primary education enrolment lies a crisis in the quality of learning.
The State of the World's Girls 2011: So, What About Boys?
Far from being an issue just for women and girls, gender is also about boys and men, and this needs to be better understood if we are going to have a positiv…
The State of the World's Girls 2010: Digital and Urban Frontiers
With a focus on the boom in city populations and the explosion of IT and communication technology, we look at the prospects and perils facing girls.
The State of the World's Girls 2009: Girls in the Global Economy
This report warns that failing to send girls to school costs the world's poorest countries billions of pounds each year.
The State of the World's Girls 2008: In the Shadow of War
Examining the state of girls in conflict situations around the world and what happens to them before, during and after war is over.
The State of the World's Girls 2007: Because I am a Girl
Girls face the double discrimination of their gender and their age, and in many societies remain at the bottom of the social and economic ladder.
