A refugee schoolchild reacts to the camera as she and her classmates receive their new books on the first day of the school year at one of the UNRWA schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 1, 2016.
The international children's rights organization Save the Children recently released their "Girls' Opportunity Index," which rates the countries of the world where it is best and worst to be a girl.
The index, part of a broader report, makes its assessments using five common indicators: child marriage, teen pregnancy, maternal deaths, women's representation in parliament and girls' graduation rates in school.
We took a closer look at the data and designed the interactive tool below. How does your country rank?
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