WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

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int-world-wcml-2023-v1

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Sep 23, 2025

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min age of marriage with all exceptions considered for girls (minage_fem_any)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 188

Invalid: 5

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

loc_start_pos: 73

loc_end_pos: 73

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	13 years old or younger	47	25%
2	14 to 15 years old	10	5.3%
3	16 to 17 years old	57	30.3%
5	18 years old or older	59	31.4%
9	set by religious or customary law	15	8%
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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