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WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria...and 190 more, 2023
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Reference ID
WLD_2023_WCML_v01_M
Producer(s)
WORLD Policy Analysis Center
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
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Feb 19, 2026
Last modified
Feb 19, 2026
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gender disparity in legal min age of marriage with parental consent (legal_diff_pc)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 192
Minimum: 1
Maximum: 5
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 88
End: 88
Width: 1
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category
1 no specific minimum age for girls
2 girls can be married 3 years younger than boys
3 girls can be married 1 to 2 years younger than boys
5 no difference in minimum age
9 unknown minimum age set by religious or customary law
Sysmiss
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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