There are many countries in the world where even today girls are getting married at a very young age, while there are some countries where girls are not getting married of their own free will. In the last few years, different movements have been seen, such as there is a group of women in South Korea who do not want to marry, they want freedom, according to them, marriage is an additional responsibility.
Apart from this, the increasing violent attitude of men is an option for such women not to marry, well this is the case of South Korea. Come, let us tell you about those Muslim countries where there are maximum number of virgin girls and also tell why they are not getting married.
Which Muslim country has the highest number of virgin girls?
There was a report in which it was said that in the whole of Arabia including the Gulf region, there are about 25 million i.e. 25,000,000 such girls, whose age is more than 24 years and they are not married yet. There were some girls whose age had crossed 35 years. According to research reports, Egypt is a country where alone there are one third i.e. 9 million spinsters. Spinsters are women who have never married, especially when they are above the traditional age of marriage.
After Egypt, Algeria comes second, the number of virgin girls here is around 4 million i.e. 4,000,000. In Iraq this number is around 3,000,000 and in Yemen it is around 2 lakh. Apart from this, in Sudan, Tunisia and Saudi Arabia this number is around 1.5 lakh. Let us tell you that this research was done by Kuwait’s newspaper Alrai in the year 2010, in which this data came out.
These countries are also in the list
The names of Syria and Lebanon are also included in this list, where the number of virgin women is around 70,000 and 45,000. It has also been mentioned in the research that the average marriage age of women in Jordan has increased from 30 years to 32 years.
Why are girls not getting married?
There can be different reasons for women not getting married, one of which is that now women are getting higher education and are giving priority to their career, they are deciding not to get married until they get a job and settle themselves. Apart from this, getting married has become very expensive in many Muslim countries…expenses like dowry, gifts and reception are common.