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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with parental consent exception to min age of marriage (except_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

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Valid: 193

Invalid: 0

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 78

loc_end_pos: 78

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	girls can be married under age 18 in all circumstances	15	7.8%
2	there is a parental consent exception to the minimum age of	48	24.9%
3	there is a parental consent exception with additional requir	35	18.1%
5	there is no parental consent exception to the minimum age of	95	49.2%

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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