This is a list of countries by age at first marriage. This list is current from contemporary surveys and does not treat the topic in history. Currency of information varies by country. Because the age distribution of people at first marriage is

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with a longer tail towards older ages, the majority of people marry before the

average In ordinary language, an average is a single number taken as representative of a list of numbers, usually the sum of the numbers divided by how many numbers are in the list (the arithmetic mean). For example, the average of the numbers 2, 3, 4, 7 ...

age of first marriage. The

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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