WORLD Child Marriage Laws 2023

Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria...and 190 more, 2023

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Reference ID

WLD_2023_WCML_v01_M

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WORLD Policy Analysis Center

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Feb 19, 2026

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Feb 19, 2026

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quality of laws prohibiting early marriage when loophold exceptions considered (loop_summ)

Data file: world-cml-2023-v1

Overview

Valid: 187

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 9

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 91

End: 91

Width: 1

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category
1	girls can be married at age 13 or younger
2	gender inequality in age, and girls can be married at ages 1
3	gender inequality in age, or girls can be married at ages 14
5	gender parity, and cannot be married until 18 years old or o
9	unknown minimum age set by religious and customary law
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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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