Countries With the Lowest Women's Age at First Marriage (census-based)

Every country with a figure for women's age at first marriage (census-based), ranked from lowest to highest. The top three are Barbados (17), Niger (17.2) and Central African Republic (17.3). The middle country of the 186 has 24.1.

What this measures

Age at first marriage, female, in years. Source: World Bank. For this measure, no agreed better direction.

The average age at which women first marry. It is worked out from census and survey counts of how many women in each age group have never married, by the UN Population Division (World Marriage Data), so it covers far more countries than registered marriages do. Most countries have a figure only every few years, and the series ends in 2019. No "better" direction is set.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2010–2019. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on women's age at first marriage (census-based)

• Countries With the Highest Women's Age at First Marriage (census-based)
• Women's age at first marriage (census-based) by country: trend over time and what it goes with

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• Countries With the Lowest Indigenous American Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest East Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest South Asian Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Middle Eastern Ancestry
• Countries With the Lowest Ethnic Diversity
• Countries With the Lowest Median Ages

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.