Mean Age at First Marriage, Women

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: age-at-first-marriage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Mean Age at First Marriage, Women: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2019	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	218	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	218	0
Women's mean age at first marriage (years)smam_womenHeadline	The headline figure: Singulate mean age at marriage, women (years).	Number · up to 1 decimal	17.0Barbados34.0Sloveniamiddle 24.7	113	0
Men's mean age at first marriage, same source (years)smam_menMeasure	The same measure for men, in years, where the same census or survey reports it; empty where only women's is available.	Number · up to 1 decimal	21.3Guyana36.5Dominicamiddle 28.7	103	35
Data collectedperiodReading year	The year this country’s reading describes. Readings from different years sit side by side.	Year	—	31	0
Kind of sourcedata_processLabel	The kind of source: a census, a household survey, or an estimate from population registers or national statistics.	Text	—	3	0
Sourcedata_sourceLabel	The census, survey or estimate the reading comes from, as the UN Population Division names it.	Text	—	218	0
SeriesseriesLabel	Who produced the table: the national statistics office, the UN Statistics Division (UNSD), Eurostat, IPUMS or a survey programme. DHS_HH and MICS_HH are the Population Division's own calculations from the survey's household questionnaire; DHS_STATcompiler is the survey programme's own table.	Text	—	10	0
Publisher's notenoteLabel	The Population Division's note on the reading, such as a group of the population left out or a census not adjusted for undercount.	Text	—	13	198

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

One edition, covering 218 countries.

Not in this dataset · 7 places this site covers

UN DESA Population Division gives no figure for these in any edition held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraCuraçaoGuamNorthern CyprusSaint MartinSomalilandVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   UN DESA Population Division

   un.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Singulate Mean Age at Marriage — World Marriage Data 2019

   undesa_pd_2019_wmd_marital_status.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: age-at-first-marriage-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/age-at-first-marriage

From the UN Population Division's World Marriage Data 2019, the newest edition. Where one country's newest year holds two readings — often one survey tabulated two ways — the row follows a rule this site states rather than a choice the Division made: latest period, then census before survey before estimate, then the Division's own calculation from the survey.

• Charted

  Mean Age at First Marriage, Women by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • People & Population
  • Gender & Equality

• Near neighbours

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