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 boys can be married (protect_boy_15)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 187

Invalid: 6

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 85

loc_end_pos: 85

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	no restrictions	5	2.7%
2	can marry with parental consent and/or under religious or cu	35	18.7%
3	only permitted with court approval and/or pregnancy	28	15%
5	marriage legally prohibited	119	63.6%
Sysmiss		6

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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