Dataset
Average age of women at marriage
owid.age-at-marriage-women
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About
Average age of women who got married for the first time that year.
Cite as: OECD (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Mean age of women at first marriage” [dataset]. OECD, “OECD Family Database – Marriage and Divorce Rates” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2001–2021
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-10-09
- Units
- years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/age-at-marriage-women
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| value__gender_female__indicator_mean_age_first_marriage | number | Mean age of women at first marriage (years) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |