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The average age at first marriage is half the sum of the ages of both men and women at first marriage. Men and women living in Spain are the oldest at first marriage, followed by Japan, Chile, the Netherlands, South Korea, Argentina, Norway, Taiwan, Brazil and Hong Kong.
Area Database. (v4.4) Gender Topics. Mean age at first marriage of women aged 20-50 Indicators. Subnational regions Levels to show. Pakistan Countries. All years Years. Table. Chart.
The median age at first marriage for women age 25-49 years is 20.4 years, compared to 25.9 years for men age 30-49. Women with no education marry more than six years earlier than women with higher education (18.7 years versus 24.9 years). Three in ten Pakistani women are married by age 18. The median age at first sexual intercourse for women
Mean age at first marriage (AFM)) for currently married women aged 25–49 years in different regions of Pakistan in four Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys (PDHSs) (1990–91, 2006–07, 2012–13 and 2017–18).
Beyond age 20, both men and women are considered potential grooms and brides. Most marriages in Pakistan are traditional arranged marriages, semi-arranged marriages or love marriages. Arranged marriage occurs when a member of the family, a close friend or a third person party helps bring two supposedly compatible people together in matrimony ...
Mean age at first marriage (AFM)) for currently married women aged 25–49 years in different regions of Pakistan in four Pakistan Demographic and Health Surveys (PDHSs) (1990–91, 2006–07, 2012–13 and 2017–18).
On the basis of the 1964 PGE single-year age distribution by marital status the estimated mean age at marriage is 14.9 and 19.1 and 22.6 and 24.7 for males in East and West Pakistan, respectively. Sadiq, using the 1961 Census quinquennial age, sex and marital status.
Figure 1. Number of girls and women of all ages who were first married or in union before ages 15 and 18. married before age 18. 19.4 million. Pakistan is home to over 19 million child brides; 1 in 6 young women were married in childhood. Prevalence of child marriage. Figure 2.
Pakistan is the world’s fifth most populous country with a population of more than 212.2 million. The female legal age at first marriage in Pakistan was, until 2019, 16 years. In April 2019, the Senate of Pakistan passed a bill stipulating that legal age of first marriage for females will be 18 years.
While the legal age at marriage is 18 in Pakistan the average age for first marriages among women is 18.8 [PDHS (1990)]. It is estimated that less than 50 percent of women in Pakistan marry before the age of 15 years as mentioned in PDHS 1990-91.