This is a list of countries by age at first marriage. The list is current from contemporary surveys. It does not treat the topic in history. Currency of information varies by country. Because the age distribution of people at first marriage is skewed with a longer tail towards older ages, the majority of people marry before the

average In colloquial, ordinary language, an average is a single number or value that best represents a set of data. The type of average taken as most typically representative of a list of numbers is the arithmetic mean the sum of the numbers divided by ...

age of first marriage. The

median The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a Sample (statistics), data sample, a statistical population, population, or a probability distribution. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “ ...

age is a more precise representation of when the majority of people marry; for most reporting sources, however, only the average age at marriage is reported.

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe

Oceania

Note: the reported age for these countries is the

, not the

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(average). All countries in italics have their data in the mean and not the median.

Notes

References

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External links

United Nations World Marriage Patterns 2000
(archived fro
the original
on 25 December 2003)
Age at first marriage: interactive data visualizations
{{DEFAULTSORT:Age at First Marriage Marriage age Fertility Lists of countries by population-related issue