Women’s age at first marriage by country
Average age at which women first marry. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 58 countries.
Highest in 2019
- Turks and Caicos Is. 25.0
- South Africa 24.3
- Algeria 23.6
- Montenegro 23.5
- Serbia 23.4
Lowest in 2019
- Bangladesh 16.8
- Central African Rep. 17.0
- Ethiopia 17.4
- Chad 17.4
- Mali 17.7
About the data
- Unit
- years (women aged 20–50)
- Years
- 1992–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Global Data Lab
- License
- Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
- Credit
- Data retrieved from the Gender database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/gender/
All countries
- Afghanistan 18.7 (2018)
- Albania 21.3 (2019)
- Algeria 23.6 (2019)
- Angola 19.6 (2019)
- Armenia 21.0 (2019)
- Azerbaijan 21.2 (2006)
- Bangladesh 16.8 (2019)
- Barbados 23.8 (2016)
- Belarus 21.8 (2019)
- Belize 19.7 (2015)
- Benin 18.9 (2018)
- Bhutan 19.5 (2014)
- Bolivia 20.5 (2011)
- Bosnia and Herz. 21.9 (2014)
- Brazil 20.3 (2000)
- Burkina Faso 17.6 (2010)
- Burundi 19.8 (2019)
- Cambodia 20.0 (2014)
- Cameroon 19.3 (2019)
- Central African Rep. 17.0 (2019)
- Chad 17.4 (2019)
- Colombia 20.2 (2018)
- Comoros 20.0 (2012)
- Congo 21.1 (2018)
- Costa Rica 20.7 (2019)
- Côte d'Ivoire 18.3 (1999)
- Cuba 20.1 (2019)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 19.6 (2019)
- Djibouti 21.7 (2010)
- Dominican Rep. 19.6 (2019)
- Egypt 20.3 (2017)
- El Salvador 19.6 (2018)
- Eritrea 18.3 (2005)
- eSwatini 23.2 (2014)
- Ethiopia 17.4 (2019)
- Fiji 22.0 (2019)
- Gabon 20.7 (2012)
- Gambia 18.7 (2018)
- Georgia 21.8 (2019)
- Ghana 20.6 (2018)
- Guatemala 18.8 (2018)
- Guinea 18.5 (2019)
- Guinea-Bissau 19.4 (2019)
- Guyana 20.2 (2019)
- Haiti 21.7 (2019)
- Honduras 19.3 (2019)
- India 18.7 (2019)
- Indonesia 20.5 (2019)
- Iraq 20.1 (2019)
- Jamaica 22.6 (2011)
- Jordan 21.4 (2017)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 19.3 (2014)
- Kazakhstan 21.4 (2018)
- Kenya 19.5 (2014)
- Kiribati 20.6 (2019)
- Kyrgyzstan 20.9 (2019)
- Laos 19.9 (2019)
- Lesotho 20.4 (2018)
- Liberia 18.5 (2013)
- Madagascar 19.2 (2018)
- Malawi 18.0 (2016)
- Maldives 20.7 (2019)
- Mali 17.7 (2019)
- Mauritania 18.1 (2015)
- Mexico 20.7 (2019)
- Moldova 20.0 (2015)
- Mongolia 22.2 (2019)
- Montenegro 23.5 (2019)
- Morocco 20.0 (2006)
- Mozambique 18.7 (2011)
- Myanmar 20.8 (2019)
- Namibia 24.0 (2016)
- Nepal 18.4 (2019)
- Nicaragua 17.9 (2004)
- Niger 16.1 (2015)
- Nigeria 18.8 (2018)
- North Macedonia 22.3 (2019)
- Pakistan 19.7 (2019)
- Panama 23.6 (2017)
- Papua New Guinea 19.7 (2019)
- Peru 20.4 (2015)
- Philippines 21.4 (2017)
- Qatar 23.1 (2016)
- Rwanda 21.0 (2015)
- S. Sudan 18.0 (2014)
- Saint Lucia 22.8 (2016)
- Samoa 22.8 (2019)
- São Tomé and Principe 19.5 (2019)
- Senegal 19.5 (2019)
- Serbia 23.4 (2019)
- Sierra Leone 19.1 (2019)
- Somalia 19.3 (2014)
- South Africa 24.3 (2019)
- Sudan 19.4 (2017)
- Suriname 20.3 (2019)
- Syria 19.6 (2010)
- Tajikistan 20.0 (2019)
- Tanzania 19.0 (2015)
- Thailand 21.9 (2019)
- Timor-Leste 20.9 (2019)
- Togo 20.8 (2019)
- Tonga 23.2 (2019)
- Trinidad and Tobago 22.9 (2011)
- Tunisia 21.0 (2019)
- Turkey 20.7 (2019)
- Turkmenistan 21.8 (2019)
- Turks and Caicos Is. 25.0 (2019)
- Tuvalu 22.0 (2019)
- Uganda 18.9 (2019)
- Ukraine 21.4 (2015)
- Uruguay 24.1 (2017)
- Uzbekistan 19.6 (2009)
- Vanuatu 19.9 (2007)
- Vietnam 20.9 (2014)
- Yemen 17.7 (2013)
- Zambia 18.9 (2019)
- Zimbabwe 18.8 (2019)