WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

World, 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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min age of marriage with parental consent for girls (minage_fem_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 192

Invalid: 1

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 5

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 71

loc_end_pos: 71

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	13 years old or younger	9	4.7%
2	14 to 15 years old	13	6.8%
3	16 to 17 years old	41	21.4%
5	18 years old or older	129	67.2%
9	set by religious or customary law	0	0%
Sysmiss		1

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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