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Map by color of age at first marriage 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, [1] the majority of people marry before the average age of first ...
Young adults getting married The average age for a first marriage in 2024 was 30.2 years for men and 28.6 for women, according to data from the Census Bureau.
Marriageable age is the minimum legal age of marriage. Age and other prerequisites to marriage vary between jurisdictions, but in the vast majority of jurisdictions, the marriageable age as a right is set at the age of majority. Nevertheless, most jurisdictions allow marriage at a younger age with parental or judicial approval, especially if the female is pregnant. Among most indigenous ...
On average, consensus on the best age to get married was 26.5, with around a quarter (23%) saying it should be between 25 and 29 and one in 10 saying it’s between 20 and 24 or 30 and 34.
The general marriage age is commonly the age of majority, though in Alabama the general marriage age is 18 while the age of majority is 19. In recent years, the trend has been to adjust the general marriage age downward and to raise the age for women to that of men.
The average age of first marriage in the U.S. has crept into the late 20s and early 30s. That extra time gives people a chance to understand themselves and their partner before making the leap.
The highest average age at first marriage was in the Netherlands: on average 27 years for women and 30 years for men in both the rural and urban population from the late 1400's onward till the end of WWII, rising at times to 30 years for women and 32 years for men. On average 25-30% of people in the Netherlands remained unmarried throughout their life between 1500 and 1950. [13] In Amsterdam ...
The United Nations Marriage Statistics Department measures the singulate mean age at marriage (SMAM) difference, the difference in average age at first marriage between men and women, across the main regions in the world (refer to Table. 1).