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In the United States, the mean age at first marriage is about 32 for men and about 30.8 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 31.4 for both genders. However, in India, it is even lower, at about 30 for men and about 27.2 for women, putting the average age at first marriage at about 28.6 for both genders. [citation needed]
The general marriage age in Puerto Rico is 21 or 18 with parental consent. [33] In Guam, the general age is 18, but 16-year-olds can get married with the consent of at least one parent or guardian. [34] In American Samoa, since September 2018, the marriage age has been 18 for both sexes. Previously, the marriage age for females was 14. [35]
On the average, marriages occurred several years earlier in colonial America than in Europe, and much higher proportions of the population eventually got married. Community-based studies suggest an average age at marriage of about 20 years old for women in the early colonial period and about 26 years old for men. [30]
In 1990, the average age for women to get married was twenty-three. As of 2016, the average marriage age for women was twenty-seven.
The average age difference between husband and wife is 6.4 years in polygamous countries, compared to only 2.8 years in monogamous countries. [55] As access to education increases worldwide, the age of marriage increases with it, with more of the youth staying in education for longer.
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The average age at first marriage had gradually risen again by late sixteenth century; the population had stabilized and availability of jobs and land had lessened. In the last decades of the century the age at marriage had climbed to averages of 25 for women and 27 for men in England and to 27 for women and 30 for men in the Netherlands ...
Research from Emory University shows the bigger the age gap in a marriage ... the more likely that couple won't last. ... the male partner is on average 2.40 years older than the female. In 67% of ...