More than one in three girls are married before the age of 18, mostly in poor rural families, it said.
The projection was based on slow rates of reduction and rapid population growth across the continent.
The African Union (AU) wants to set 18 years as the minimum age for marriage.
The AU launched a campaign earlier this year to end the practice of child marriage and its head, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, told the BBC that the practice can "oppress women"
"It's something we are dead against in every country as we don't think children should be wives," she added.
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