WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

World, 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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Sep 23, 2025

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circumstances 15-year-old girls can be married (protect_girl_15)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 188

Invalid: 5

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 75

loc_end_pos: 75

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	no restrictions	8	4.3%
2	can marry with parental consent and/or under religious or cu	38	20.2%
3	only permitted with court approval and/or pregnancy	27	14.4%
5	marriage legally prohibited	115	61.2%
Sysmiss		5

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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