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Local self-government agencies may, at the request of the parties entering the marriage, provided that justifiable reasons exist, lower the marriage age. The marriage age may not be lowered by more than 1 year. [177] Laos: 18: 15 – [178] Lebanon: 18: 17: 17: 15: 15: 14 [179] 18 or 17 years and 16 or 15 years with judicial permission for Druze ...
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 ...
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]
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.
In Britain, the median first marriage age for opposite-sex couples in 2020 was 35.3 years for men and 33.2 for women, about five years older than they would have been in 1995, and nine years older ...
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 ...
The number of marriages shot up to reach over 2 million in 1946, with a marriage rate of 16.4 per 1,000 people as WWII had ended. The average age at first marriage for both men and women began to fall after WWII, dropping 22.8 for men and 20.3 for women in 1950 and dropping even more to 22.5 and 20.1 years in 1956.
The average marriage age for men was 26, while women typically wed around age 24. Men were often expected to travel and see the world before coming home to settle down.