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- WBL: Legal Framework, Marriage, Score (scale 0-100)
WBL: Legal Framework, Marriage, Score (scale 0-100)
The Marriage topic legal frameworks score measures laws related to marriage and divorce because equal rights in marriage and divorce are critical to a woman’s agency, financial security, and health. It is divided into four indicators. It is calculated as the unweighted average of the indicator scores in the topic and rescaled to a 0–100 scale, where 0 represents the lowest possible score and 100 the highest possible score. For details on underlying questions and scoring assumptions, please refer to the WBL Methodology Handbook (link: https://wbl.worldbank.org/content/dam/sites/wbl/documents/2026/WBL-Methodology-Handbook-2026-FINAL.pdf).